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PrefaceThis report was prepared under contract with the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, and supported bygrants from the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec, the Conseil québecois de la recherche sociale,and the Institute for Aboriginal Peoples Health of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Theseagencies, however, bear no responsibility for its content.The literature review was undertaken with the assistance of Elizabeth Anthony, Margaret Cargo,Genevieve Garneau, Arlene Laliberté, Katherine Gofton, Elizabeth A.M. Guerrier, Melissa Mair,Chantal Robillard, Lara Stern, Hani Tamim, and Catherine Zygmuntowicz. Marcelle Durrum, MarshaVicaire, and Claire Fantus provided editorial help. I thank Kay Berckmans, and Antonella Clerici foradministrative support.The text of this report is based in large part on earlier papers and reports by the Aboriginal MentalHealth Research Team (Kirmayer et al., 1993a; 1993b; 1994a; 1999). The contributors to these earlierreports were: Lucy Boothroyd, Louise Bujold-Brown, Rose DuFour, Nadia Ferrara, Kathryn Gill,Barbara Hayton, Vania Jimenez, Arlene Laliberté, Brenda Laronde Simpson, Michael Malus, ConsueloQuesney, André Smith, Yeshim Ternar, and Terri Yu.Laurence J. Kirmayer, MDMontreal, May 2006vii