The Medicine Wheel: Environmental Decision-Making Process of Indigenous Peoples

The Medicine Wheel: Environmental Decision-Making Process of Indigenous PeoplesThe Medicine Wheel built by Indigenous people acknowledges that ecosystems experience unpredictable recurring cycles and that people and the environment are interconnected. The Western science knowledge framework is incomplete unless localized intergenerational knowledge is respected and becomes part of the problem definition and solution process. The goal of this book is to lay the context for how to connect Western science and Indigenous knowledge

Shannon Gibney

and purification rites such as the Nahua sweat bath exemplifies the interconnected process of rebalancing that transpires throughout life in mental

respect and courage

and its current usage provides new critical connections between North American fiction

which are characterized by her tireless campaigns to reverse the forced termination of the Menominee tribe and to ensure sovereignty and self-determination for all tribes

and healing since the dawn of time

political ambition

She passed over in 1999

In this account of the history between Indigenous Peoples and the United States government

It provides detailed descriptions of 125 of the most useful medicinal plants commonly found in North America

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oral history that is lived and handed down over the generations