This site includes materials describing traditional
health, medicine and healing practices of Alaska Native people
and their applicability today. Anyone wishing
to contribute to this site is encouraged to contact the coordinator of the
Alaska Native Knowledge Network at (907) 474-1902, or send an email message
to fyankn@ankn.uaf.edu.
A Gathering: Growing Strong Together--United
We Will Make a Difference
This is an excerpt from a report written by Dixie Dayo, Alaska
Native Knowledge Program Assistant on her recent attendance at the
conference A Gathering: Growing Strong Together held in Kotzebue,
Alaska June 30 through July 3, 1997.
Composition of Nutritive Value of Alaskan Game
Meats
Center for Clinical and Epidemiological Research
University of Washington
Excerpt: "For more than a decade, researchers at the CCER have
been involved in studies of American Indian and Alaska Native issues,
including health, exercise, and assessment of availability and
use of medical care."
Nitsitapiisinni - Stories and Spaces: Exploring
Kainai Plants and Culture
From the Galileo Educational Network: "Check out
the free webresource which features indigenous healing plants,
aboriginal
stories, historical
photographs,
student
art
and music, and video interviews with elders. You will find over
40 complete digitized books and teacher planning resources and
links. Come explore the Kainai landscape with elder guides and
learn from the Kainai ways of knowing."
Juneau's Floyd Dryden Middle School Wolf Team Plant Projects
Excerpt: "The
students on the 7th grade Wolf Team at Floyd
Dryden Middle School spent
the fall quarter of 1999-2000 studying local plants. They
studied characteristics of plants, how plants
are classified, and the
structure and function of plants. Students learned about
the traditional uses of plants from many
books and from a very
knowledgable Tlingit elder, Marie Olsen. Each students
collected plant specimens, pressed them, and made a plant book."
The
Native Elder Health Care Resource Center
The Native Elder Health Care Resource Center (NEHCRC), initially funded by
the Administration on Aging for a four-year period beginning February 1, 1994,
is a national resource center for older American Indians, Alaska Natives and
Native Hawaiians, with special emphasis on culturally competent health care.
National Center
for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
The National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental
Health Research (NCAIANMHR), a program in the Department of Psychiatry,
is one of five minority group mental health research centers sponsored
by the National Institute of Mental Health, and is the only program of
this type in the country focusing specifically on American Indian and
Alaska Native populations.
Association of American Indian
Physicians
AAIP is dedicated to improving the health status of American Indian and Alaska
Native people, training Indian physicians and other Indian health professionals,
and furthering policies which affect Indian health. AAIP also fosters collaboration
between western medicine and traditional Indian / Native medicine. AAIP was
founded in 1971 by 13 Indian physicians who wanted to provide a forum to
discuss Indian health issues and to increase the number of Indian physicians.
