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110 entries match Traditional & Indigenous [G02.403.700] · Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine [K01.900.850]
2012
#7891
Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.
2012
#9977
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.
2015
#7504
Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.
2015
#10275
A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.
"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…
2015
#10341
Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.
This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the New World w…
2017
#9862
Secret cures of slaves: People, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
"Massive mortality among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging fro…
2017
#12096
American Indian medicine ways: Spiritual power, prophets, and healing. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer.
"Indigenous people of wisdom have offered prayers of power, protection, and healing since the dawn of time. From Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, to contemporary healer Kenneth Coosewoon, medicine people have called o…
2019
#12094
Fighting invisible enemies: Health and medical transitions among Southern California Indians.
"Native Americans long resisted Western medicine--but had less power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as the Office of Indian Affairs reluctantly entered the business of health and medicine, Nat…
2021
#13271
Strong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.
2021
#13794