Indigenous health

Question 1

Differences between Indigenous knowledge and scientific

Question 2

Indigenous Disease Theory explanation

Answer 2

Every culture has its own epistemology and metaphysics

based on coherent and rational thinking and understanding

natural and supernatural

medicine not seperable to religion

Question 3

European accounts on Indigenous health

Answer 3

biased, described as primitive fradulent and harmful. ignorant. yet did rely on indigenous health

Question 4

Overview of Disease Theory, defintions and goal

Answer 4

disease = the disruption of balance and harmony among and between humans and other entities

goal of healing = restore balance

power to heal; also seen as power to harm

serious illness=seen as a past moral breaching

communal

Question 5

Types of Healers in Indigenous Health

Answer 5

shaman
medicine men
herbalists

Question 6

Gender and Traditional Healers

Answer 6

belief that most healers were men due to historical records.

Question 7

GOVERNMENTAL / CHURCH ASSAULT ON
CANADIAN INDIGENOUS HEALING TRADITIONS

Answer 7

eliminating elements of indigenous social and spiritual life. potlatch

Question 7

How do Indigenous people define and experience health today?

Answer 7

medicine wheel

Question 8

Naho’s determinants of health for aboriginal peoples

Answer 8

1. colonization
2. globalization
3. migration
4. cultural continuity
5. access
6. territory
7. poverty
8. self-determination

Question 9

What does the medicine wheel represent?

Answer 9

-sacredness of four
-used by many first nations or metis peoples as a symbol of life, health, and values of community and nation
-not used by inuit
-mental, spiritual, physical, emotional

Question 10

what is a potlatch

Answer 10

based on complex systems of status and rank. means of validating status and responsibility. redistribution of wealth