Traditional Medicine

Principles and ceremonies of Cree spirituality.

Looks at STEM (Western science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) trained faculty partnering with Elders to learn about natural health products (NHP) at the First Nations University of Canada.

Educational Psychology Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2016.

Covers material dealing with definitions, objectives of the process and methods used.

Literature review.

Mathematics and Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cologne, 2011.

Comments on the First Nations Centre's Traditional Healing Circle of Elders event held to discuss needs and priorities related to traditional health, healing and related knowledge.

Examines the Healing Circle ceremony and other Aboriginal beliefs for their effect on the counselling operations and the healing process.

Surveyed First Nations adult volunteers to appraise attitudes towards traditional healing regarding interest, value of, and participation.

Conference participants collectively formulated a research and program policy agenda for addressing the disproportionately high rates of suicide in Native North American communities.

Examines the relationship between non-Native nurses with traditional healers and elders in northern communities and discusses the relevance of traditional healing approaches to medicine for Aboriginal people.

Discusses an approach that was developed for bridging cultures to facilitate the interaction of non-Natives with traditional healers.

Discusses issues impacting spiritual revitalization of Indigenous communities and policies to support development and maintenance of traditional knowledge.

Compilation of information gathered from three Inuk elders outlining methods for treating common ailments.

Explores literature that suggests traditional medicine and indigenous knowledge as protective factors for at risk Aboriginal communities and populations.

Discussion of systematic destruction and suppression of traditional medicine, traditional Aboriginal concepts on health restoration, the integration of Indigenous and western medicine, the Western Pacific Regional initiative on traditional medicine, and a viable traditional medical system.

Discusses how to conserve and utilize traditional medicine in a contemporary setting and includes recommendations from elders and healers.

Student handout includes questions and activities.

Discusses five themes that were identified from the interviews: hunger, sharing, gathering, medicine and religion.

Brief discussion of medicinal plants and other therapeutic interventions, characteristics and modern perspectives on traditional medicine, and current applications.

Compares mainstream and Lakota medical practices.

How traditional knowledge has been adapted to be used in a high school classroom in the Hartley Bay School. The curriculum is being used as a way for students to learn about their people's ways of knowing, and to be involved in the intergenerational transmission of traditional ecological knowledge and wisdom.

Literature reported a total of 546 medicinal plant taxa used to treat 28 disease and disorder categories.

Contends that indigenous cultures accepted disability as a matter-of-fact.

Reviews the role of altered states of consciousness (ASC) in the anthropology of religion.

Discusses how storytellers can take a person through a wide range of emotions and the wisdom in the stories.

Looks at ways for First Nations people to access traditional healers while following bureaucratic protocols.

Explains the Native American viewpoint that it is important to use traditional philosophies of healing in contemporary social work.

Looks at policies and recommendations to facilitate local tribal programs uniquely designed to promote spiritual and cultural traditions.

Investigation into Tuuhikya, or true healers, by looking at their roles and methods in Hopi culture in both traditional and modern times.

Project evaluated and selected 20 research articles which were then summarized and presented to 190 health workers and regional stakeholders in Nunavik in 6 thematic emails: Child Development, Infectious Diseases, Traditional and Modern Medicine, Metabolism, Nutrition and Contaminants, and Inuit Perspectives. Article lists were also published online.

Chapter two in forthcoming book: Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health in Canada: Beyond the Social edited by Margo Greenwood, Charlotte Reading, Sarah de Leeuw and Nicole Marie Lindsay.

Atlantic Canada Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 1998.

Discussion of an agreement to increase efforts in protecting traditional knowledge and genetic resources.

Community Health Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Manitoba, 1998.

Looks at diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease and holistic approaches to prevention.

Dietetics and Human Nutrition Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2010.

Concludes that providing home based palliative care in remote Aboriginal communities can be an effective way of addressing the medical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of patients.

Social Work Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wilfrid Laurier University, 2008.

Looks at program offered at the Whitehorse General Hospital which allows Aboriginal people to access traditional practices, which are merged with western healthcare.

Educational Psychology Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1995.

Social and Cultural Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2010.

Comments on using an approach to pain assessment in Aboriginal children that employs both Indigenous and Western knowledge.

Examines how the traditional story and its telling remains relevant in helping with today's problems.

Contends that to improve overall health an integration of knowledge about environmental and lifestyle issues into the health care field's scarce resources is necessary.

Looks at the historical meeting between Peyotists and the Oklahoma legislature.

Booklet of a study of Vuntakutchin people living at Fort Egbert, Alaska. Topics include habitations, annual movements, food, fishing and hunting, government, funeral ceremonies and names.