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TRADITIONAL HEALING
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Alaska
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Alaska Native
Knowledge Network
A resource for compiling and exchanging information
related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing.
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Alaska Native
Science Commission
The mission of the ANSC is to endorse and support
scientific research that enhances and perpetuates Alaska Native cultures,
and ensures the protection of indigenous cultures and intellectual
property.
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Alaska Traditional
Knowledge and Contaminants Project
An interactive database bringing together existing
information on contaminants in Alaska Native subsistence foods. Sponsored
by the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University
of Alaska Anchorage and the Alaska Native Science Commission.
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Alaska Traditional
Knowledge and Native Foods Databaset
The goal of the project is to build capacity
among Alaska Tribes to take effective action to clearly identify and
address their concerns about radionuclides, other types of contamination,
and adverse changes in the environment. Sponsored by the Institute
of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage
and the Alaska Native Science Commission.
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Alaska
Traditional Healing Panel Discussion (Streaming Video)
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"Hands,
Head, and Health" the story of Della Keats (Streaming Video)
Produced by the Norton
Sound Health Corporation.
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Honoring Ceremony for Rita
Blumenstein, Wisdom Keeper, February 18, 2006
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Alaska: Narrative and Healing
Professional Perspectives offers the
views of health professionals on theories, techniques, research, and
the application of narrative in health care and educational settings. Healing Narratives provides examples that demonstrate the therapeutic
properties of writing and telling stories.
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Living
in Both Worlds: Inupiaq Women and Urban Life
Research among North Slope Inupiaq women living
in Anchorage in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Southcentral
Foundation's Traditional Healing Program
Brings traditional healing practices side-by-side
with Western medicine to further incorporate Alaska Native values,
beliefs and practices for the ultimate benefit of Native patients,
families, and communities.
United States
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AAAS Project on Traditional Ecological Knowledge
In October 2002, a new project was begun to explore "the intersection between traditional
knowledge, intellectual property, and human rights."
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Native American Ethnobotany Database
A database of almost 45,000 items concerning foods, drugs, dyes and fibers of Native American
Peoples, derived from plants. Maintained by the University of Michigan - Dearborn.
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Native American Herbal Remedies
Website developed by the "Cherokee Cultural Society of Houston ... to build community, to
preserve Cherokee heritage, to perpetuate the Cherokee culture, and to build the future of our people."
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Native American Traditional Healing - Focus on AIDS
A fact sheet produced by the New Mexico AIDS Education and Training Center with partial
funding by the National Library of Medicine.
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Traditional
Ecological Knowledge Prior Art Database (T.E.K.*P.A.D.)
Public domain documentation concerning indigenous knowledge and plant species uses. This is
an American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) project.
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Traditional Knowledge and Native
American Information
Selected links chosen by the U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Traditional Medicine Initiative
The U.S. Indian Health Service's initiative seeks to foster formal relationships between local
service units and traditional healers so that cultural values, beliefs, and traditional healing practices are respected
and affirmed by the IHS as an integral component of the healing process.
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U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
Supports rigorous research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), trains researchers
in CAM, and disseminates information to the public and professionals on which CAM modalities work, which do not,
and why.
International
Publications
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