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Alaska Native Health Care: A Profile of Successful Self …

WEBThe Alaska Native Health Care System is a diverse and multi-faceted system that has developed over the last 30 years. It represents many diverse …

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Indigenous Rebirth: A Return to Traditional Birthing …

WEBFounded three years ago, the Alaska Native Birthworkers Community is a small, grassroots, volunteer based organization in Anchorage, Alaska, whose members …

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Health and Development: Seeking the Best of Both Worlds

WEBToday in Melanesia the wide range of disease patterns, their underlying causes, and the attempts to solve the region's health problems make a fascinating case …

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April 7th is World Health Day: Indigenous Peoples and …

WEBEvery year on April 7, World Health Day, a day championed by the World Health Organisation, is commemorated internationally. The day was conceived in 1948, …

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Worlds Transformed Indigenous Peoples' Health in …

WEBExamples of this transition among indigenous peoples of all tropical rainforest regions are noted by this issue’s contributors. Poverty and ill health are typically …

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Decolonizing Fasting to Improve Indigenous Wellness

WEBFasting also improves our gut microbiome, which is critical for the prevention of gastrointestinal disorders and a well-functioning immune function. Types of …

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The Hawaiians: Health, Justice, And Sovereignty

WEBBy 1850 the population was less than 85,000. By 1890 it was down to 40,000. And, finally, in 1900 -- in the immediate aftermath of the US seizure and annexation of …

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Intercultural Health: Chile’s Path Towards Recognizing …

WEBCalfin Lafkenche (Mapuche) works locally, nationally, and internationally to assert Indigenous human rights. He is a part of Desarrollo Intercultural Chile, serves as …

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Hmong Refugees and the US Health System Cultural …

WEBThe Traditional Hmong Health System. The Hmong view illness as a supernatural event, caused by spirits, called tlan. These animistic beliefs cloud their …

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The Traditional Medicine Research Center (TMRC): A …

WEBOur website houses close to five decades of content and publishing. Any content older than 10 years is archival and Cultural Survival does not necessarily agree …

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The Persistence of Traditional Medicine in the Modern World

WEBTraditional medicine has been gradually forced underground in many societies due to pressure from missionaries and governments who perceived such …

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KASIYANNA: Particular Challenges of Indigenous Peoples in Facing

WEBBy Minnie Degawan Now, four months into the worldwide crisis brought about by COVID 19, the situation of Indigenous Peoples is slowly coming to light with the …

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Intercultural Health Processes in the Colombian Amazon

WEBAmazonian indigenous peoples understand and manage health as a vital expression ofthe way in which human beings and the rainforest environment interact. Health is a cross …

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Health Care Among the Ngawbere in Panama Cultural Survival

WEBThe implementation of a health post infrastructure in rural Panama from 1972-1973 onward began to fulfill a long-felt need for adequate medical care among Ngawbere. The …

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Our Response to COVID-19 Cultural Survival

WEBWe are developing and disseminating ongoing content and materials on COVID-19 across our programs. Join Cultural Survival in upholding Indigenous rights, health, well being …

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Chicueyaco: Daily Life in a Nahua Village Cultural Survival

WEBJennifer Larson. Juanita Chepe wakes up early to make breakfast for Antonia, her 84-year-old mother, before beginning her 45-minute walk and bus ride to …

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AUSTRALIA: Reports show severe health disparities

WEBReleased on July 12, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Council of Australian Government (COAG) issued two reports showing that the poor living …

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Protecting Traditional Medicinal Knowledge In Zimbabwe

WEBThe African Potato ( Hypoxis Hemeracallidae) was hot in Zimbabwe in 2000. For years it had appeared in some of the street markets in the capital of Harare …

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The Black Mesa Controversy Cultural Survival

WEBAs of January 1, 2006, one of the most contentious U.S. coal mining operations, the Black Mesa Mine on Hopi and Navajo reservations in northeastern …

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