Thank you for the opportunity to review this paper.

The authors have a done a wonderful job at blending the two worlds of cultural/Indigenous health and how it sits within the current dominant health system from Māori NPs perspectives.

The authors have done a great job at clearly explaining aims, methodology/methods and the discussion was relevant to the findings of this study.

The findings of this work have potential to have a good impact on how we as Aboriginal/Indigenous nurses continue to resist, reframe and care for our families in the dominant health system.

Some comments for consideration:

p. 3, line 16 - Authors could consider changing 'chronic' to life limiting illness or other ways to reflect complex life long diseases opposed to deficit based/laden word "chronic"

p.3 line 25-26 re: Covid, this sentence could use some further expansion perhaps evidence in how covid has increased risk for the Māori peoples. The way the sentence currently reads is it seems added on.

Page 7 line 49, as the paper is co-authored by Māori nursing participants, I am mindful of how the author/s have used "their" in the results section when discussing participant quotes. I find the language of "their" to be quite othering in the Indigenous research space. This perhaps may be a personal preference; however I would suggest to the authors to consider reading through the results section and notice where they have used "their" "them" etc and perhaps change to the participants pseudonym or perhaps "our".

Page 8, line 9 "betwixt" not sure of this word being used here - perhaps just review as it can create confusion as I have not seen this word used before in academic writing.

Page 8, line 20 "cultural loading"- in recent times, the term cultural loading has been challenged by Indigenous peoples as culture is not load/burden...to still use this word is ok, I just thought the authors may want to consider framing as "colonial load" - as our families face distress in the mainstream system - so our distress/loading comes from colonial systems opposed to cultural systems.

Page 8, line 30 I wonder if the quote meant to say "So, do I work in a
supportive system that would NOT even allow me to have a conversation? No".

page 8 line 54 - 'them' - please see comment above re: use of them/their etc re: othering language

Page 9, line 54 - The analysis text to the proceeding quote does not seem to be aligned - analysis text talking about individual/collective journey, where quote talks about Grief practices - review to bring into alignment.

Page 10, line 6 - capitalise Indigenous

Page 10, line 12-13 - perhaps further analysis/explanation of "third eye"

Page 10 line 28, quote has already been used. Have you got similar quotes that highlight the divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives of health.

Hope my comments are useful to this revision.

Kind regards.