Across Indigenous communities, women are the heart of traditional medicine. The Fourth World Journal invites submissions that honor their healing knowledge, resilience, and leadership. Share your research, reflections, or community-based experiences by August 1, 2025.
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Indigenous knowledge holders and community members have actively resisted global biopiracy through international diplomacy. After over 20 years of strategic, resilient, and effective political engagement, Indigenous peoples have achieved a monumental first step toward protecting their IP from biopiracy and bioprospecting: the GRATK (Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge) treaty, adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in May of 2024.
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Post-Colonial Violence, Indigenous Women, and Traditional Medicine The relationship between violence against Indigenous women and traditional medicine is deeply rooted in historical, cultural, and systemic forces. Across many Indigenous nations,…
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The Fourth World Journal invites submissions for a special edition on Indigenous women in traditional medicine. This issue will explore their critical role in health, resistance, and environmental sustainability. Scholars, practitioners, and activists are encouraged to contribute studies, narratives, and policy analyses highlighting Indigenous knowledge systems and decolonial healthcare approaches.
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At the end of 2021, more than 89 million people have been forcibly displaced because of persecution, conflict, violence and human rights violations. Fourth World nations have themselves on which to depend in defending against these myriad crises.
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CWIS and the Center for Traditional Medicine have for over 45 years focused on the restoration revitalization and support of indigenous medicine throughout the world with a focus on the…
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A new study found evidence that latino immigrants continue to seek Traditional Indigenous Medicine health service providers, even in cases where they have access to insurance.
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Mexico has been the source of a multitude of foods to the world that nourish both mind and body; among these are the flamboyant chilis, the multi-tasking avocado (aguacatl), the…
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Stress is common among activist scholars. We are on the ground supporting change and the need for change feels endless at times. Likewise, being indigenous or Native in societies who…
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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…
Read moreThe 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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