Family Medicine
Blood Tribe
Dr. Esther Tailfeathers was born and raised on the Blood Reserve in Southern Alberta, graduated from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and completed her Family Medicine residency at the University of Alberta. Esther has worked in many Indigenous communities in both the United States and Canada including the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, Fort Chipewyan in Northern Alberta, and her home community of the Blood Tribe. In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Tailfeathers currently serves as the Senior Medical Director of the Provincial Indigenous Health Hub at Alberta Health Services. Esther is most proud of organizing a relief mission to Haiti after the earthquake in 2010, leading a team of Blood Tribe paramedics, nurses and health care workers who took care of more than 2000 patients during the relief efforts. Since 2014, Dr. Tailfeathers has been a leader in responding to the Blood Tribe’s opioid crisis, including developing community strategies on harm reduction, treatment and addressing upstream determinants of health.