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Indigenous Healing Approaches & indigenous well being

Below are the best resources we could find on Indigenous Healing Approaches and indigenous well being.

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A Native American Tribe Is Using Traditional Culture to Fight Addiction

A year and half ago, Gabe Stewart stood in tribal court pleading guilty to felony charges because he stole money from his family to support his opioid addiction. In January, his community honored him for overcoming addiction and watched as his case was dismissed entirely.

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Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet

We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . .

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Doctor Rita

One patient had just left. Another was due in an hour. Rita Blumenstein -- Doctor Blumenstein -- sat in her easy chair and recalled her first memory of healing someone, the day almost 60 years ago when she prevented an infection from dog bites. The patient was her mother. Rita was 4 years old.

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Healing Prayer: Grandmother Rita Pitka

An audio prayer, from Grandmother Rita Pitka Blumenstein .

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The Healing Power of Heritage

Interventions rooted in indigenous traditions are helping to prevent suicide and addiction in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

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Renowned Alaska Native Healer Blumenstein Hopscotches from Old World to New

In the years that I have had the honor of calling Rita Pitka Blumenstein "Auntie," I have felt privileged every time this renowned healer has invited me into her home.

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Talking Feather at the Rio+20 People’s Summit—13 Grandmothers Mona Polacca & Maria A.C. Friere

Introduction to the Talking Feather Ceremony held at the June 2012 People’s Summit at Rio+20 - Cupula dos Povos na Rio+20 in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

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The Red Road to Wellbriety: In the Native American Way

Time and time again our Elders have said that the 12 steps of AA are just the same as the principles that our ancestors lived by, with only one change. When we place the 12 steps in a circle then they come into alignment with the circle teaching that we know from many of our tribal ways.

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Pray Every Day for the Waters of the Earth~

We live in water in our mother’s womb,’ Hopi grandmother Mona Polacca explains. ‘Moments before we come into this world, the water of our mother’s womb gushes out, and we follow behind. That is why the Hopi call water our first foundation of life.’

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Amaurluq Bamiovan: Grandmother Rita Pitka Blumenstein - Yupik - Traditional Wisdom, Song & Prayer

This is a collection of audio & video segments from Grandmother Rita Pitka Blumenstein., with some additional photos and quoted words of wisdom, from Grandmother. There is also two different versions of a song "Yuiarraq" with Grandmother singing. and an audio prayer.

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