"Traditional healing refers to the health practices, approaches, knowledge and beliefs that incorporate First Nations healing and wellness. These practices include using ceremonies, plant, animal or mineral-based medicines, energetic therapies and physical or hands-on techniques... There are a number of studies and reports that suggest incorporating traditional healing and wellness into health services for First Nations will improve health and wellness. Wholistic wellness is believed to lead to better long-term results, not just for the health system but also for First Nations individuals, families, communities and nations." (First Nations Health Authority, 2022)
Examines residential schools and their power to destabilize entire communities long after the last school has closed. With the help of many indigenous authors, the conclusion is that the key to healing is to return to the traditional indigenous world view.
With passionate logic and chillingly clear prose, author and educator Suzanne Methot uses history, human development, and her own and others’ stories to trace the roots of Indigenous cultural dislocation and community breakdown in an original and provocative examination of the long-term effects of colonization.
This book draws on a historical framework in reflecting on contemporary tribal health-care efforts and the ways in which they engage indigenous healing traditions alongside twenty-first-century biomedicine.
First Nations Health Authority. (2022). Traditional wellness and healing. https://www.fnha.ca/what-we-do/health-system/traditional-wellness-and-healing
