Articles For Tag "Aboriginal" |
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#1 | 3/9/2013 | Day 2 of Australia 2013: Story is Healing (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) Today we considered how story can save people's lives. When people are filled with negative stories about being inferior and worthy of humiliation and contempt, they respond accordingly often with substance misuse and violence. The traditional cultural stories of all of our peoples are antidotes to this negativity. By immersing ourselves in our cultural stories, we can turn victimization into recovery and transformation.1 |
#2 | 3/11/2011 | Suicide and Mental Health: Australia Journey Day 2 (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) Lewis and Coyote Institute are on Day 2 of an Australian journey which is a cross-cultural exchange about ideas for mind and mental health. Today we focused upon suicide which elders told us was rare in Australia prior to European contact, but now, all to common. We focused upon suicide as a modern non-indigenous template for the communication of suffering which sometimes backfires leading to accidental death.1 |
#3 | 6/30/2010 | More on the Politics of Indian Identity (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) Based upon comment on last weeks, "More Indian than Thou" essay, I continue my musings about the politics of Indian identity. I explore the fundamentalist response which argues that pure bloods are more Indian than mixed bloods and that non-status Indians have no business reading about, participating in, or even being interested in aboriginal culture. I argue that this would, in fact, allow the U.S. government to succeed.1 |
#4 | 5/7/2010 | What is a traditional healer? (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) I address the question of what is a traditional healer and define a category of hybrid healers -- people who have studied with traditional healers but are also steeped in the modern culture. Those of us who are hydrid healers can "never go home again". We can't go back and claim to be traditional healers because we have been influenced by too many other stories? |