Category: Health
US Indian Health Care Fails
The US Indian Health Services has compacts with scores of Indian nations and its services cost too much while its services miss the target of exploding chronic diseases. Diabetes, heart…
Read moreNative American Natural Foods www.TankaBar.com
I want to urge my readers to take a close look at Native American Natural Foods, LLC and its important contribution to the restoration of healthy lives among the Dakota…
Read moreWholistic Medicine
While the dominant discourse relies on codes and categories that separate for ease of analysis, Indigenous models of knowing rely on awareness of the whole. This awareness is spoken through…
Read moreSocial Justice- A Matter of Life and Death
“Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale,” acknowledges a World Health Organization (WHO) report just issued. The study is entitled “Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity…
Read moreInteresting Objects of Investigation
What’s the secret of Jamaican’s sprinters success at the current Olympic Games? To reveal this mystery is the scientific community’s aim these days. There are many theories to explain the…
Read moreChoosing Life Over Money
It is very simple. Good air, water, food. These are some of the most essential and basic principles of the quality of life. They are harder and harder to find…
Read moreSelfish Brain Theory
Alternative approaches to healing obesity and diabetes are gaining more and more interest and understanding in Europe. The principle of enacting self determination to regain control over one’s health is…
Read moreAll over there are People Starving to Death
Shocking figures. There are over one billion people who are dangerously obese in the world. At the same time there are people who simply do not have anything to eat….
Read moreThe Body Politic
The primary mission of institutions charged with protecting the public health is to contain outbreaks and to prevent epidemics associated with infectious disease. The first order of business in the…
Read moreTamil Community Trauma–Violence without End
Dr. Leslie Korn of the Center for Traditional Medicine (an agency of the Center for World Indigenous Studies) began a three-year study of Community Trauma in a western Mexico comunidad…
Read moreChief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library
The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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