In the article Sharing One Skin by Jeannette Armstrong, she explains the entire existence of her culture and what it means for her to be Okanagan. She briefly begins off by explaining how growing up she was taught the importance of her land and community. The land was something very important to her because there were certain ties she and her people had to it. Those ties were being able to have a source of identity and a place for her wellbeing to be whole. Along with the community she explains the importance of it. She states that without her community a person would feel lost and lifeless. But to be a community means to have family and “individual wellness" (Armstrong). Although she explains the importance of these things, she also describes how these things could be lost. She describes how the world moves in a different way. Many people that live in this type of environment have no connections or ties to hold them down. Instead they are not as grounded with a community and family, they are taken in with technology that dehumanizes. Armstrong further explains how things like this continue to happen are bad and she shows her pessimistic opinion on how things won’t continue to get better until we try to actually go and reunite with the ways that were once good for us long ago.

In the article A Perspective of Diabetes from Indigenous Views describes how diabetes came to affect most tribes today as well as what they mean based on an indigenous perspective. What is first explained are the 4 themes emerging around the issue of diabetes. These four themes come from 6 elders each representing their own tribe. The themes discussed are “ a) before contact with Europeans, diabetes was not found among the indigenous peoples; b) outside influence on food choices and activity patterns have been major factors in the rise of diabetes; c) disconnection from cultural roots yielding a state of imbalance or loss of harmony is manifest in negative health outcomes, such as wide-spread diabetes; and d) hope that a solution lies in the core values and knowledge of indigenous cultures.” (Sanderson et al. 1). With this the article then goes to explain what diabetes actually means in a western view and what is explained is how “Diabetes contributes to life-long disabling conditions such as neuropathy followed by amputation, retinopathy, end-stage renal disease, stroke, heart attack, and poor wound healing.” (Sanderson et al. 2). This description then explains how many can approach this putting a greater focus towards managing the disease and allows for a native perspective to come in.

Next off in the article the authors then vitalize each of the elders' stories explaining what diabetes means to them and how they perceive it within the culture. Of the six elders that talk, the tribes represented in the article are the Dine, Hopi, Mayan, Oglala Lakota, Yoeme (Yaqui), and Choctaw. These tribes discuss the various factors of how diabetes came to affect their tribes. For example in the article the Mayan and Yaqui deeply explain how the introduction of the European sedentary lifestyle has deeply affected their diets. The article also describes how the tribes such as the Oglala Lakota and Choctaw have disconnected from their traditional roots of hunting, farming and gathering. This major factor is something not practiced today by their tribes. Lastly the article explains how tribes such as the Dine and Hopi have utilized how important it is to have teachings implemented in today's world. Connections with traditional teachings are an overall factor that needs to be learned today. Overall the article then summarizes how today “The western medical approach to diabetes has not considered the health impact of stress created by spiritual imbalance, loss of language and cultural practices and beliefs, and uncertainty of indigenous identities.” (Sanderson et al. 24).

In the article titled “Traditional knowledge-based lifestyle interventions in the prevention of obesity and type 2 diabetes in Indigenous children in Canada: a systematic review protocol” this article explains the studies they plan to conduct as well as the methods involved. They first explain that their study will be conducted on the Indigenous peoples of Canada. As explained, “This systematic review will include studies of boys and girls, less than 18 years of age, and who are of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis descent. Only Indigenous children in Canada will be included, and we will not exclude studies based on language, setting, or timeline of publication. We will exclude children with a current diagnosis of T2DM, as this review aims to assess prevention studies” (Crawford et al., 3). These are mainly the native communities they decide to do their research on. This research will also acknowledge their theory that “Traditional interventions that may have an impact on obesity and diabetes may encompass different components such as dancing, hunting, ceremonies, storytelling, food harvesting and storage, and teachings in an attempt to address the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual domains of health” (Crawford et al., 2). With this said the research will heavily enforce on the traditional teachings of the Native communities in Canada and understand if it contributes to a healthier state of the native adolescent children living in Canada.