Traditional Medicine

Consists of an interview where she discusses Medicine Men and their purported powers. She briefly mentions Indian superstitions (being born with a caul on her face; being the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter).

Inaugural article from incoming editor discusses the progress made in the employment of Aboriginal health workers in Australia.

Introductory article to current issue.

Special issue looks at present-day behavioral health and substance abuse treatment practices.

Nursing Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Arizona, 1986.

Examines the debate over the validity of traditional practices in the treatment of disease.

Uses a Midewiwin framework, and elaboration theory that stories have power, healing abilities and the strength of the story depends on the ability of the healer. Concepts are used to reshape the narrative of Christopher Columbus in Gerald Vizenor's novel. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 22.

Discussions held during workshop which was part of the Inuit Health Information Initiative conference describe traditional Inuit health knowledge and compare it to 'southern' treatments.

Kinesiology and Health Studies Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Regina, 2009.

Side A of this tape has not been translated into English. Side B is a conference about Ojibway legends of creation, flood and migration and how these compare to the legends of other peoples. Also talks about the origins of the clans and Midewiwin lodge.

Interview includes stories about the origin of the Sioux Dance and tales about the Sliding and Drumming hills.

Consists of an interview where she tells of a frightening trip through the woods as a child.

Description of the first phase of a project carried out in the Battleford Tribal Council area. Used community-based research methods, including a sharing circle and a focus group.

Examines a case study of ritual healing among the Tarahumara, or Rarámuri, in northern Mexico.

Topics include: overview of epidemiological data on Aboriginal mental health in Canada, critical review of existing literature on the topic of prevention and treatment, comprehensive discussion of emerging trends and guidelines for future research.

Discusses the challenges a research team faced as it arranged data ownership and governance in a highly politicized area of health research.

Author critiques the colonial framing of death and dying as a medical event; argues for using the teachings contained in the Medicine Wheel and the Two Row Wampum as way to restore respect, balance, and spirit, and view death as an interconnected part of life, community, and culture.

Organizational Systems Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, 2007. (This is an abridged version of the introduction, one chapter, and the conclusion of the document.)

Using community-based surveys to determine the health priorities of four Indigenous communities to help develop the Green Light Program. Chapter in Promoting Change Through Action Research edited by Franz Rauch, Angela Schuster, Thomas Stern, Maria Pribila, Andrew Townsend . To view article scroll down to page 207.

Presents innovative model of participatory action research (PAR) based on five central partnership principles. Chapter 2 in book: Demarginalizing Voices: Commitment, Emotion, and Action in Qualitative Research edited by Jennifer M. Kilty, Maritza Felices-Luna and Sheryl C. Fabian.

Ethical principles of gathering plants, from an Indigenous healer 's perspective, with emphasis on respect, purpose, stewardship, and regeneration.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Manitoba, 1998.

Discusses how Western influences can destroy rituals, like that of love medicine.

Clinical Psychology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 1997.

Consists of an interview that includes detailed descriptions of plant remedies; a story of Striped Walker who killed a Cree; the difference between medicines that are discovered and those that are revealed in dreams.

Discusses the widespread use of home remedies by older adults with the highest usage by ethnic minorities.

Plant Science Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2006

Botany Thesis (M.Sc.)--The University of British Columbia, 1996.

Anthropology and Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1997.

Biology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa and Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Gardens, 2014.

Renewable Resources Thesis (M.A.)--University of Québec at Chicoutimi, 2008.

Identifies several candidate plant species used by the Cree to treat symptoms of diabetes.

Condensed version of the report on the Fifth Healing Our Spirits Worldwide (HOSW) conference on Aboriginal health and healing, held in Edmonton in 2006.

Evaluation of the PRIADE (Professional Relations in Aboriginal Diabetes Education) program found it had been successful in increasing community capacity and helping non-Aboriginal health workers to understand their clients.

Looks at local ideas about traditional herbal medicine, uses and applications and how they apply to cultural, social, political, spiritual and physical areas of society.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2002.

Looks at the ceremony used by Algonquian tribes to heal the sick.

Individual Interdisciplinary Program Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2008.

Nursing Thesis (M.Sc.)--Western University, 2018.

Proceedings from the Indigenous Knowledges Dialogue Circle, Vancouver, B. C. February 2007.

Adult Education and Counselling Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2011.

Presents nine ways that counselors might integrate various forms of indigenous healing into their practices.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--The University of Guelph, 2006.

Explores cultural system of beliefs as a factor in shaping the health of First Nations peoples. Data collected from the 1991 Aboriginal Peoples Survey.

Interviews revealed that each person, in their own discipline, had both desire and intention to help people, and that this reality can then be built upon by training and an awareness of their shared commonalities.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--McMaster University, 1998.

Study examines the philosophy and practice of expressive therapies for trauma and links to Aboriginal culture, experiential learning, spirituality and creative arts.

Discusses how Indigenous and Western constructivist therapies can support and assist counsellors, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists and can positively impact Indigenous families.