Tag: Indian Country Today Media Network

  • Healing Historical Trauma Through Traditional Culture

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    Dina Gilio-Whitaker ‘s review of Leslie Korn’s new book Rhythms of Recovery: Trauma, Nature, and the Body brings up an issue often ignored by health professionals – the role historical and cultural trauma can have on the emotional and physical well being of the individual. Medicine, like politics, is often a matter of perspective; for many cultures illness…

  • White Earth Reservation

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    Learning to Wildcraft: Foraging and Feasting on the White Earth Reservation BY: MARY ANNETTE PEMBER When I was a kid we described plants like burdock with its tenacious burrs and stinging nettles with its distinctive sting as “pickers.” At theWild Food Summit, however, they call these plants dinner. On the first night of the Wild…