Category: Traditional Knowledge

• People
• Traditional Knowledge

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.

• People
• Traditional Knowledge

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

• Health
• Traditional Knowledge
• Traditional Medicine

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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• Health
• Traditional Knowledge

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….

• Human Rights
• Law & Justice
• Traditional Knowledge

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…

• Traditional Knowledge

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…

• Arts and Culture
• Human Rights
• Traditional Knowledge

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…

• Environment
• Food Security
• Health
• Traditional Knowledge

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…

• Environment
• Traditional Knowledge

People are animals too, but too frequently human beings chose to step out of the chain of biological and cultural relationships that make the planet work more smoothly. Conventional scientists…

• Media
• Traditional Knowledge

The Center for World Indigenous Studies celebrates its 36th year since its founding in 1979 ready to meet the ground-up challenges presented by a greatly more immediate world. Radio, Television,…