Health Care For Women International, vol. 24, no. 4, April 2003, pp. 340-354
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Presents unstructured interviews of the lives, backgrounds, and traditional healing practices of six Ojibwa and Cree women healers from Canada and the United States.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 30, no. 4, Therapeutic Use of Hallucinogens, October-December 1998, pp. 333-341
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Discusses four perspectives of psychotherapy; the western paradigm, the shamanic rituals of divination, folk religious ceremonies and "hybrid" rituals.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 35, no. 1, Morning Star Rising: Healing in Native American Communities, January-March 2003, pp. 15-25
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Discusses the Healthy Nations Initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation which focuses on early prevention, intervention, pubic awareness and cultural values.
Agriculture and Human Values, vol. 15, no. 2, June 1998, pp. 133-138
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Looks at the concept of one medicine, the relationship between the doctor and horse in the Cheyenne, and the intimacy between people and their horses in the Navajo or Apache.
Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 11, Supplement, October 2003, p. 15
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Article attempts to identify issues and concepts to guide in developing culturally appropriate mental health strategies; argues the mental health problems have social origins that require social and political solutions.
Health Care for Women International, vol. 19, no. 3, May-June 1998, pp. 205-215
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Study explored traditional pregnancy/childbirth beliefs and practices and the relationship between those beliefs and use of contemporary prenatal care.
Mosaic (Winnipeg), vol. 36, no. 1, March 2003, pp. 121-134
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Commonalities in Native American and Mexican American healing practices as evidenced in the fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko, Rudolpho Anaya and Ana Castillo.
Discusses trade networks for plants in British Columbia and neighbouring areas from archaeological, historical and ethnographic records, as well as recollections from contemporary people.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 35, no. 1, Morning Star Rising: Healing in Native American Communities, January-March 2003, pp. 33-42
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Discusses the outcomes of using sweat lodge ceremonies in treating criminal offenses bases on data collected from 190 men between 18 and 64 years of age.