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Category: Traditional Knowledge

Bringing Forward Native Voices

Bringing Forward Native Voices

August 8, 2023

Many answers to contemporary world problems, especially climate change, are already known, especially when considering indigenous knowledge systems. The key is to learn how to find this knowledge and foster…

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Nine Steps to Death: Unburying the Origins of a Tradition

Nine Steps to Death: Unburying the Origins of a Tradition

October 29, 2020

The Day of the Dead, celebrated in Mexico on November 1st and November 2nd, has its origins in prehispanic times. Different Mesoamerican peoples worshiped death, but the tradition we celebrate…

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Medicines of the Land: Sami reflections on the role and use of indigenous medicine today

Medicines of the Land: Sami reflections on the role and use of indigenous medicine today

July 23, 2020

The Sámi are recognized as an Indigenous people in Finland. Ethnobotany is very important to them, with one particular species of plant, boska (angelica) which is used in gastronomy and also as medicine.

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How the Land Cured my Daughter’s Eczema

How the Land Cured my Daughter’s Eczema

July 8, 2020

Treating eczema in a baby through diet (wild meats, greens and vegetables, fruits, some grains and nuts) changes when breastfeeding.

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Scholarly Papers: Center for Traditional Medicine

Scholarly Papers: Center for Traditional Medicine

March 6, 2018

The Center for Traditional Medicine gladly shares it’s collection of scholarly papers with the public to shed more light on the knowledge of the ages. These are the new added…

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Twenty-five Tribal Members earn CWIS-CTM Certificates in Herbal Medicines

Twenty-five Tribal Members earn CWIS-CTM Certificates in Herbal Medicines

December 15, 2016

Twenty-five Tulalip, Muckleshoot and Colville Tribal members earned Center for Traditional Medicine Herbal Medicines Certificates after nine-months of intensive studies under the instruction of Valerie Segrest from the Muckleshoot Tribe….

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Free, Prior and Informed Consent

Free, Prior and Informed Consent

December 11, 2015

US Government Proposes to Weaken Informed Consent Three section of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) state that indigenous peoples–indigenous nations–have a legitimate expectation that…

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Gilio-Whitaker at NAISA

Gilio-Whitaker at NAISA

May 26, 2015

Gilio-Whitaker CWIS Research Associate and Associate Scholar Dina Gilio-Whitaker will present a major paper at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association 2015 session in Washington, D.C. June 4th. Gilio-Whitaker…

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Indigenous Knowledge Denied in AZ

Indigenous Knowledge Denied in AZ

February 16, 2015

As might be expected the tangible, educational successes borne from the implementation of indigenous knowledge has again slammed into bigoted, legislative and judicial barriers in a settler state (United States…

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Winter Berries - Coastal Salish

Winter Berries – Coastal Salish

January 24, 2015

Wild Berries for Winter Health By Elise Krohn Elise@cwis.org CWIS Fellow for Native Plants and Nutrition We are in the thick of winter. It has been cold and rainy for…

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Chief 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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