Traditional Medicine

Student handout includes questions and activities.

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

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.

Public Health Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

Leadership and Change Thesis (Ph.D.)--Antioch University, 2013.

Nursing Science Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 2001.

Study examines the extent these practices are used by urban patients, identifies related characteristics, associations with health status and functioning and attitudes about care provided.

Explores one aspect of cultural care studied through responses to a questionnaire completed by 100 patients.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1989.

Looks at Johan Turi's books Sámi Deavsttat / Lappish Texts and Muitalus Sámiid Birra showing the changes in traditional healing practices.

Consists of an interview where Verna Patronella Johnston speaks of uses for traditional foods and medicines. She also gives an account of Grandma Jones, a storyteller.

Verna Richards ran the La Ronge Cafe in the 1950s and 1960s. She knew many of the local Indian and Metis people including Brady and Norris.

Provides access to a variety of Gabriel Dumont Institute's general educational resources, including items on the traditional Métis lifestyle.

Examines traditional Iroquois witchcraft by looking at how the Iroquois defined a witch and how witches used their powers.

Discussion of patenting, copyrighting and trademarking Indigenous knowledge by pharmaceuticals is not by direct appropriation, rather it is by indirect transfer of information by academics, and placing the information in the public domain.

An interview with Wilfred and Harriet Chocan about the joys and challenges in their lives from childbirth to caring for the elderly and death.

Looks at using the lessons of the Medicine Wheel and the Seven Grandfather Teachings as examples of traditional teachings which could be combined with contemporary methods.

Links to various subject related articles: ancestors, earth sciences, healing practices, indigenous science, and traditional stories.