The project, "Finding First Nations voices and their stories of wellness: A scoping review", aims to identify and better understand how Western academic processes speak on behalf of First Nation peoples' concepts of wellbeing. This presentation will showcase the work to date and provide a conversation with the audience about how First Nations qualitative studies are currently conducted.

Only recently has the First Nation story of well-being begun to be told by their people. This has provided an in-depth understanding of the intangible things not previously found in our research. Living within the narration of First Nations storytelling is our history as the oldest living continual culture in the world (Kovach, 2021). First Nation's well-being concepts are a growing body of information that requires First Nations people to have their voices contextualised and understood.

Well-being, for me as a first nations man, is more than the objective way of clinical medical framing for well-being, such as quality of life, socioeconomic indicators and the absence of illness. These descriptors are framed currently within the disparities of the social determinants of health, ultimately leading to comparisons of the disparity of health between First Nations people and the rest of the population.

The research will gather the voices of First Nations' narratives as described by the researchers and the participants within the studies examined. The research identified will be explored by examining the vignettes and descriptions given as to their subjectivity. I will discuss how First Nations people's descriptions and understandings of wellbeing are investigated and analysed within the Qualitative studies. Researcher biases and methods of theoretical perspective are explored that provide insight into how data is interpreted.