Book
Wisdom engaged : traditional knowledge for northern community well-being
Record details
- ISBN: 9781772124101 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
xiv, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta : Polynya Press, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Contexts and holistic approaches to Northern Community well being -- Traditional knowledge, healing, and wellness : an introduction / Leslie Main Johnson -- Making and taking medicine : Indigenous and western therapeutics in an early contact Eastern MacKenzie Delta Society, 1858-1920 / Walter Vanast -- Illness and power in times of contact: Gitxsan and Witsuwit'en narratives of healing / Leslie Main Johnson -- "Our food is our medicine": traditional knowledge and traditional plant foods for health and well-being in the Canadian North and Alaska / Nancy J. Turner -- Cranberries are medicine: montioring, sharing and consuming cranberries in Fort McKay / Janelle Marie Baker and the Fort McKay Berry Group -- Huckleberries, food sovereignty, cumulative impact, and community health: reflections from Northern British Columbia, Canada / Leslie Main Johnson, Darlene Vegh, and Ruby E. Morgan -- Conditions for well-being: sustainability of an Inuit subsistence system in a globalized world / Keiichi Omura -- Inuvialuit nautchiangit, relationships between people and plants : a project to document traditional plant knowledge / Inuvialuit Regional Corporation -- Community context, research methods, and cultural ethics in the plants for life project, Delme / Christopher Fletcher -- Life transformation and volunteerism in teetl'it Zheh : pathway to community well-being / Thea Luig -- Northern community voices on wellness -- Sip'xw Hligetdin : demonstrating the strength, education, readiness, and responsibility to speak in the feasthall / Ari Matthews, Sim'Oogit T'Enim Gyet -- Seaweed harvesting an my uncle's stories / Della M. Cheney, Stakawas, Katsawa -- Life at Moose Lake: tradiitional life in Fort McKay Territory and the impacts of oil sands mining / Celina Harpe-Cooper -- Health is living well according to Kaska values : Kaska women's words / Linda G. McDonald and Mida Donnessey -- Wisdom for well-being ; Gwich'in Elders' teachings / Mary Teya, Annie B. Gordon, Mabel English, and Alestine Andre -- Healing and spiritual knowledge of Deline and Plants for life / Morris Neyelle and Bernice Neyelle -- Words of a traditional healer for Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories / Robert Beaulieu -- Pathways and choice : concluding words / Leslie Main Johnson. |
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