This eLearning activity covers information to support new and current clinicians and staff who serve American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people in understanding and elevating healthcare within indigenous communities.… […]
Keyword: decolonization
Indigenous Culture as Prevention | June 20, 2023
In this presentation, Dr. Melissa Lewis, PhD, LMFT, describes the relationship between Indigenous culture and health status. Dr. Lewis discusses Indigenous health and wellbeing as holistic, encompassing physical, emotional, social,… […]
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Sacred Trust: Assessment and Diagnosis through an Indigenous Lens | June 28, 2022
This presentation discusses screening and assessment as a sacred trust, the influence of western science on conventional screening, assessment, and diagnosis. The presenters explore the space “between” western and Indigenous… […]
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Battering Triangle (NIWRC)
The Battering Triangle depicts the hierarchy of violence in our communities. The triangle includes cultural and ritual abuse and is reflective of colonization and the oppression that our people continue… […]
Culture-based Strategies for Substance Use Disorder: Decolonizing Addiction | August 13, 2020
Dr. Melissa Lewis, Assistant Professor in Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri, reviews the origins of substance use, Cherokee values of wellbeing, Indigenous understanding of cause of substance… […]
Decolonizing Gender Identity and Sexuality | March 25, 2020
In this presentation, Joseph M. Pierce, an Associate Professor at Stonybrook University whose research specializes on gender and sexuality in Latin American and Indigenous cultures, discusses the complex and sometimes… […]
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