Traditional Medicine

Presents health care providers with culturally relevant training tools to improve communication with patients regarding the prevention, care, and treatment of HIV and other STIs, and supports efforts to minimize STI impact, including HIV, on Native communities.

Presents health care providers with culturally relevant training tools to improve communication with patients regarding the prevention, care, and treatment of HIV and other STIs, and supports efforts to minimize STI impact, including HIV, on Native communities.

Discusses one community's experience with formalizing the delivery of traditional healing methods.

Originally published as the Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This edition published with a new introduction by David Reed Miller.

Examines the collected data from educational workshop participants used to examine characteristics associated with positive & negative attitudes and beliefs about those who are living with HIV, based on categories such as age, gender and location.

Book review of The Australian Medicine Man by Helmut Petri, translated by Ian Campbell, edited by Kim Akerman.

Discusses the phenomena of cultural uptake of the drink, its use for nontraditional practices and subsequent ramifications in the areas of indigenous knowledge, cultural appropriation and intellectual property.

Describes a counseling technique which incorporates spirituality.

Reports on a research project that explores the impacts of physical activity on the well-being of Aboriginal women.

Looks at a research study conducted in northeastern Ontario from 2009 to 2012.

Consists of an interview with Pones where he describes various ceremonies.

Program is designed to help health care providers become comfortable in treating this group. Aimed at physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, Indigenous healers, etc.

Book review of: Being Alive Well: Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being, by Naomi Adelson.

Stories of traditional healing rituals including Sun Dance, Yuwipi, Ojibwe Health Ceremony, Shaking Tent and Shaker Health Ritual.

Explains use of wild strawberries, red raspberries and juniper berries.

Discusses the medicalization of women’s in health in Mexico; articulates considerations of separation from traditional healthcare providers and practices, invasive Western practices surround pregnancy and birth, and discrimination against Indigenous and/or Afro-descendant women. Analyzes the way that poor women use the phrase “being cut” to describe “multiple experiences of frustration, mistreatment, and violence during childbirth.”

Brief list last updated May 2005.

Describes the results of a 6 week trial which attempts to integrate current and traditional cultures in a positive manner.

Bill Wilson was born in Lac La Biche, Alberta in 1934 and raised by Indian people west of Calgary. His father was 3/4 Sioux from the U.S. but his parents broke up when he was little. He discusses his negative attitude toward the RCMP.

Author discusses Indigenous medical practices; lists some maladies that were effectively treated using Indigenous medicine and notes those diseases brought from Europe for which Indigenous peoples had no treatment.

Public Policy and Public Administration Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2003.

Mass Communications Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007.

Book review of Birth on the Land edited by Beverley O'Brien.

Applied Psychology and Human Development (Ph.D.)--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2013.

Looks at collaborative, community based development of an intervention program for treating substance use disorders that are opposite of the usual treatments.

Author reflects on the important role of the medicine man and how their customs are dying with them.

Discusses the lack of recognition for historical Indigenous cultural achievements. Achievements examined are: medicine, maple sugar, and the use of fertilizer.

Explores the relationship between place of birth and spiritual connections to land and water.

Book review of: Body, Land and Spirit edited by Janice Reid. Review located by scrolling to page 202.

Examines the connection between body and technology and wellness. Also seeks understanding of why local residents consider traditional activities a solution to social problems such as substance abuse.

Book reviews of 18 books: Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology by Stephanie McKenzie. Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900 edited by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians by Michale Leroy Oberg. How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World by D. L. Birchfield. I Swallow Turquoise For Courage: Poems by Hershman R. John. Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians edited by James W.

Review of Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical. Cultural. and Epidemiological Perspectives by James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, T. Kue Young

Book reviews of: Living Relationships: The Treaty of Waitangi in the New Millennium by Ken S. Coates and P. G. McHugh. Aboriginal Rights and Self-Government: The Canadian and Mexican Experience in North American Perspective edited by Curtis Cook and Juan D. Lindau. Tribal Honors: A History of the Kainai Chieftainship by Hugh A. Dempsey. The Myth of the Savage, and the Beginning of French Colonialism in the Americas by Olive Patricia Dickason. The Pawnee Mythology by George Dorsey.

Book reviews of 6 books: Your Fyre Shall Burn No More: Iroquois Policy Toward New France and Its Native Allies to 1701 by José Antonio Brandao. Into the Daylight: A Wholistic Approach to Healing by Calvin Morrisseau. Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts by Laura J. Murray and Keren Rice. "Keeping the Lakes' Way:" Reburial and the Re-creation of a Moral World Among an Invisible People by Paul Pryce. Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life by Alma Hogan Snell. Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism by Craig S. Womack.

Book reviews of 10 books: An Overview of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and Compensation for their Breach by Robert Mainville. Black Elk Lives: Conversations With the Black Elk Family by Esther Black Elk DeSersa, Olivia Black Elk Pourier, Aaron DeSersa Jr., Clifton DeSersa. Black Elk Speaks, Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux told through John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow) by Nicholas Black Elk. Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timer Region by Sandra Faiman-Silva.

Story of Milingimbi Health Centre and the staff who are both Balanda (non-Aboriginal people) and Yolngu (Aboriginal people).

Looks at teaching methods using both the western and traditional health approaches.

This qualitative study discusses the successful techniques and strategies that residents of the Seneca Nation of Indians used to quit smoking.

"This resource guide provides a general introduction to justice issues for people who work with Indigenous clients in the Atlantic Canadian justice system."

Explores reasons why the epidemic figures prominently in First Nations' histories; includes oral remembrances of the devastation the disease brought to First Nations communities.

Looks at joint project to develop a national agenda for research on cultural safety and cultural competence and framework for improving health care services for Aboriginal people. Related Material: Building Bridges 2: A Pathway to Cultural Safety, Relational Practice and Social Inclusion: Schedules "A" to "E" to Main Report. Building Bridges 1.

Describes traditional cures for various ailments and conditions using locally sourced plant and animal products in Northern Territory, Australia.

Article describes traditional treatment methods for various ailments.

Examines the role culture plays in a successful community based program aimed at promoting healthier pregnant women and offspring.

Field study based on interviews and information sessions aimed at gathering information about the use of medicinal plants by the Carrier people of northcentral British Columbia.

Argues the need for a pluralistic approach to healthcare that includes western and traditional medicine.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2004.

Description and evaluation of the "We should all speak" project which was designed to provide a range of traditional services to women residential school survivors or those suffering intergenerational impacts. Sources of information include project files, Aboriginal Healing Foundation National Process Evaluation Survey, key informant interviews, evaluation forms submitted by participants, and special report on annual gathering.