Traditional Medicine

Discussion by Elders who express regrets at loss of traditional customs and values and desire a return of schools on reserves ; a need to preserve Indian ceremonies and Indian medicines ; concerns about problems with alcohol recur throughout.

Elders discuss a variety of matters relating to Indian culture and traditions and what can be done to retain or regain these. Most topics are touched on only briefly

Loss of Indianism through white education.Founding of White Fish Lake Reserve. Problems on reserves as a result of electing 'young' chiefs. Loss of Indian ceremonies and healing.

Discussion of: Role of elders in setting young people on the right road ; Importance of breast-feeding and giving up alcohol ; Need for a tipi on each reserve, to be kept for prayer, pipe ceremonies and the counselling of the young.

Discusses various aspects of the Medicine Wheel, including knowledge about human development from the mainstream paradigm and Indigenous wisdom and ways of knowing from an ecological position, thus linking human development concerns to a wholistic view.

Examines cultural competency in health care, and explores the use of a participatory action approach to foster collaboration with patients, traditional healers and the community.

Discusses themes coming out of study: "the connection between cultural continuity and health and well-being, conceptualizations of cultural continuity and connectedness, the role of knowledge transmission journeys of cultural (dis)continuity, and barriers to cultural continuity."

Case study of an aboriginal youth sent from a rural reserve to an urban centre for psychiatric treatment. Some success was noted by encouraging him to develop an Ojibway identity.

Authors connect the health and well-being of Indigenous males with the practice of cultural identities, obligations, and kinship systems; make policy recommendations that aim to improve the cultural engagement and consequently the well-being of Indigenous men.

Looks at how a nurse used her conventional medical knowledge and understanding of Native-American traditions in a spiritual and healing role.

Discusses practices that use traditional culture-based American Indian healing methods to integrate within system of care model.

Contends that modern epidemiology can work in conjunction with indigenous knowledge in Aboriginal communities.

Highlights cultural and medicinal uses.

Comparison of substance abuse programs that incorporate traditional healing practices and the promotion of culture as both preventive and curing agents.

3rd edition. Provides overview and directory.

Elder from the Standing Buffalo Dakota First Nation explains harvesting, preparation methods, and nutritional value of food available around the reserve.

Adult Education and Counselling Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2011.

Looks at a case study of a health promotion project which, using the teachings of the Medicine Wheel, aims to provide culturally appropriate health promotion.

[Cross Cultural Studies] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2014.

Paper presented at the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) twenty-fifth National Conference.

Nursing Thesis (M.N.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2006.

Perspective on maintaining or regaining balance discussed in relation to individual as well the relationship between tradition and the administration of justice in Canada. Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.

Examines some of the steps taken, and the successes and challenges of making midwifery care available to women, particularly for those who live outside of Winnipeg.

Study explores one commissioning model—Te Pou Matakana (TPO)—for purchasing health care services in terms of service-based outcomes delivered . Includes a history of Māori health provider development.

This personal essay describes the author’s experience and learning which resulted from co-teaching about narrative medicine with a Dene colleague. Discusses issues of consent, colonialism and Indigenous world-views.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Marquette University, 2009.

Book review: Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health in Canada: Beyond the Social edited Margo Greenwood, Sarah de Leeuw, Nicole Marie Lindsay, and Charlotte Reading.

Book review of: Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health in Canada edited by Margo Greenwood, Sarah de Leeuw, Nicole Marie Lindsay and Charlotte Reading.

Explains the traditional concept of well-being, Te Korowai.

Discusses a program that includes the use of cultural beliefs, practices and customs for the health care needs of cancer patients in Indigenous communities.

Examines a research project to design and implement culturally appropriate community based health promotion interventions.

Adult Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--St. Francis Xavier University, 2006.

Discusses how home and community gardening among the Navajo community plays an important role in diabetes care and intervention.

Discusses the similarities and differences between the use of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders," and an Aboriginal naming ceremony used by the Coast-­Salish people in British Columbia.

Traditional curing methods practised before introduction of western medicine.

Discusses the devastating effects colonial disease had on Native harmony with nature and the revival of tribal memory of medicine to survive.

Book review of: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers by Troy R. Johnson.

Discusses why this story is part of a storyteller's repertoire throughout the Arctic and what this story tells us about the human condition.

Discusses the roles and responsibilities of a midwife.

Reports on the effectiveness of traditional medical practices and how modern and traditional methods can often compliment each other.

Biography of Alberta Cree Elder widely known for his famous sons, Lorne and Lewis Cardinal.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.26.

Study recounts the long-term benefits of the ayahuasca experience for spiritual and psychological growth.

Describes the aims of a nursing program that integrates traditional and western medicine to build a specialized Indigenous nursing practice.

Summarizes key findings into the steps taken by three First Nations communities to provide culturally appropriate early childhood training and care programs.

Seneca Iroquois relationships with plants.

Consists of an interview where she gives an account of plants and herbs used as medicine; and gives a description of basket making procedures.