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Honoring Indigenous voices: Native American nurses shaping healthcare

The US celebrates Native American Heritage Month annually in November. During this time, society comes together to recognize ...
Star Tribune

From medicine garden to language classes, Native education is growing in Rochester schools

ROCHESTER - Coen Wagner was a digging machine outside Dakota Middle School last Friday. And it was welcomed. The 8-year-old helped plant in the school’s medicine garden last fall — crops that included ...
Western Michigan University

Medicine garden harvest helps kick off academic year for Native American Student Organization

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Under the hot August sun, Shabanaa Bush carefully ties bundles of sage freshly harvested from a bed in front of Western Michigan University's Floyd Hall. Inside the building, home to ...
KHON2

Meet the first Native Hawaiian to be inducted into National Academy of Medicine

HONOLULU (KHON2) — In an exciting development for Native Hawaiian representation in medicine, Dr. Keawe Kaholokula, a prominent health professor and chair of the Department of Native Hawaiian Health ...
KUOW

Washington's tribes want Medicaid to cover traditional healing

When Washington’s legislative session kicks off next week, lawmakers will take up the issue of traditional Native American medicine. Washington state Medicaid doesn’t currently reimburse Native ...
KJZZ

Arizona Medicaid now covers traditional healing, helping Native communities preserve tradition

On Oct. 1, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, AHCCCS, Arizona’s Medicaid agency, began reimbursing for traditional ...
Wall Street Journal

Medicaid for Herbs and Housing

The Biden Administration is trying to woo Native Americans whose votes could be pivotal in Western states. One pre-election gambit is to let Medicaid pay for Native American “traditional medicine.” ...
Argus Leader

‘We’re still here’: Native voice leads cultural training for community

Midwest Street Medicine hosted a public event to discuss Native American culture and historical trauma. Keynote speaker Tanya Grassel-Krietlow linked historical policies to generational trauma and ...
insider.si.edu

Honoring the medicine : the essential guide to Native American healing / Kenneth "Bear Hawk" Cohen

Native American or American Indian : can you be politically correct -- pt. 1. Principles and values -- The Native American philosophy of life -- 1. The power of silence -- The four winds : getting ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Why Native Americans are facing high rates of mental decline

It’s estimated that around 7 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, a number that’s expected to double by 2060. But researchers have found that some of the highest rates of cognitive impairment ...
insider.si.edu

Learning to be an anthropologist and remaining "Native" : selected writings / Beatrice Medicine ; edited with Sue-Ellen Jacobs ; forewords by Ted Garner and Faye V. Harrison

NMAI copy 39088009721283 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Mrs. Ruth Webb. ANTH copy 39088018807180 Purchased from the Jean Axelrod Acquisitions Endowment. Foreword / Ted ...