How can creating videos contribute to expanding health literacy? This article describes a participatory action research project with a group of Canadian Indigenous youth and their teachers. As the youth explored their interests about health and wellness through the artistic creation of videos, they developed a critical consciousness about community, culture, confidence, and control. They became mobilized and obtained information about health and wellness that allowed for the development and expansion of their notion of health literacy that included cultural conceptions of health and wellness.

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This study is about the interaction of scientific expertise and local knowledge in the context of a contested issue: the quality and quantity of safe drinking water available to some residents in one Canadian community. We articulate the boundary work in which scientific and technological expertise and discourse are played out against local knowledge and water needs to prevent the construction of a watermain extension that would provide a group of residents with the same water that others in the community already access. We draw on an extensive database constructed during a three-year ethnographic study of one community; the database includes the transcript of a public meeting, newspaper clippings, interviews, and communications between residents and town council. We show not only that scientists and residents differ in their assessment of water quality and quantity but also that there is a penchant for undercutting residents in their attempts to make themselves heard in the political process.In our society, the stories of ordinary peoples' relationships to ordinary places remain largely a hidden and untapped resource for understanding the complicated, shifting connections between human behaviour and environmental conditions. (Bowerbank, 1997, p. 28) This article is concerned with the conflict between scientific expertise and local knowledge in the context of a case study that focuses on the attempt of some residents of one Canadian community to become connected to the watermain

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