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.
Psychological Services, vol. 12, no. 2, May 2015, pp. 83-91
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Looks at collaborative, community based development of an intervention program for treating substance use disorders that are opposite of the usual treatments.
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.
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.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 126, February 2015, p. 9–16
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Presents ethnographic case study which examines a traditional treatment system and the need for communication and compatibility between traditional medicine and biomedicine.
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.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 35, no. 2, 2015, pp. 207-223
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Discusses the case of an eleven year old First Nations child whose decision to end chemotherapy and use traditional medicines instead was criticized in Canadian mainstream media.
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.