Native American Healing Traditions

Portman, Tarrell Awe Agahe; Garrett, Michael Tlanusta

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“…Māori values and beliefs, including wairuatanga (spirituality), aroha (love), and connections with the whenua (land) and rongoā (herbal remedies), continue to be reinforced during Māori healing in the present day (Mark, 2008;McGowan, 2000;Mcleod, 1999;Riley, 1994). Other traditional healing literature also discusses the importance of cultural values in healing, and in particular, the Indigenous focus on spirituality as well as the holistic concept of the mind, body, and spirit (Portman & Garrett, 2006;Struthers, Eschiti, & Patchell, 2004).…”

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Acknowledging the Māori cultural values and beliefs embedded in rongoā Māori healing

Mark¹,

Chamberlain²,

Boulton³

2017

IJIH

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An exploration of rongoā Māori (a system of Māori healing based on Māori cultural traditions) was conducted to ascertain the cultural values and beliefs of Māori, the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa/New Zealand, that are related to Māori healing. A Kaupapa Māori approach utilising Māori cultural concepts throughout the research process guided the overall study design. Semistructured narrative interviews were conducted in 2009 and 2010 with 17 rongoā Māori healers. The rourou Māori method of data analysis, a 3-step process created specifically for this project, was employed to analyse healers' talk about the underlying concepts of rongoā Māori healing. Two key topics emerged: concepts of healing, and the focus of healing. Introduction Rongoā MāoriRongoā Māori (RM) is a system of healing techniques that has a long history of practice by Māori, the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ). These healing techniques are based on Māori cultural customs and beliefs that have been passed down through generations. However, whenever there are shifts in societal structure, such as those arising from the process of colonisation, there is a series of concomitant changes in all aspects of Indigenous cultures. As one of the first articles to position RM within the research literature, this article seeks to provide a broad overview of the main concepts of RM healing and explore the cultural values and beliefs behind Māori healing processes. The relevance and significance of ancient traditional knowledges in a contemporary context is discussed.Reporting this research requires us to use te reo Māori (Māori language) throughout the paper, in order to identify concepts and practices clearly. Māori language, and the concepts embodied in that language, are given primacy in this paper, in accordance with the overall premise that traditional knowledges must be protected, nurtured, and maintained through the academy. We have adopted the following practice for this use. The first time a Māori word or phrase is used, it is italicized (unless capitalized as a proper noun) and an English definition is provided in parentheses. Subsequent uses of the word are not so defined, but a glossary is provided.Durie (1998) identified five different classes of Māori healing, noting that more than one type of treatment may be used at a time. According to Durie's taxonomy, Māori healing includes ritenga (rituals) and karakia (prayers), rongoā (herbal remedies), mirimiri (massage), wai (water), and surgical interventions. In defining these historical concepts of Māori healing, Durie also noted that some of these skills (e.g., surgical intervention) have been lost or superseded, or are otherwise no longer used. Durie (1998) lists rongoā as one of many Māori healing techniques, one which involves the use of herbal remedies only. However, other academic sources (e.g., Jones, 2000a) cite mirimiri, karakia, and wai as aspects of rongoā and therefore as part of a traditional system of healing that has developed out of the cultural traditions of M...

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Acknowledging the Māori cultural values and beliefs embedded in rongoā Māori healing

Mark¹,

Chamberlain²,

Boulton³

2017

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“…Common pan-tribal spiritual practices include prayer, sweat lodges, drumming, dancing, smudging ceremonies, pipe ceremonies, and traditional medicine. Through these practices individuals and groups express gratitude; receive purification and healing; and maintain harmony with the cosmos and nature, among kinship and community relations, and between one’s mind, body, and spirit (Portman & Garrett, 2006; Rybak & Decker-Fitts, 2009). …”

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Religious and Spiritual Practices Among Homeless Urban American Indians and Alaska Natives with Severe Alcohol Problems

Wendt¹,

Collins²,

Nelson³

et al. 2017

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Engagement in religious and spiritual practices may be protective for homeless individuals with alcohol-related problems. However, little is known in this regard for urban-dwelling American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) who have disproportionately high rates of homelessness and co-occurring alcohol use problems. Using secondary data from a nonrandomized controlled study testing a Housing First intervention, AI/AN participants (n = 52) and non-AI/AN participants (n = 82) were compared on demographic variables, alcohol use problems, religious affiliations, and religious/spiritual practices (importance, frequency, and type). AI/ANs who engaged in Native-specific independent spiritual practices had significantly lower alcohol use frequency in comparison to AI/ANs who did not.

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“…Consistent with many ethnic and indigenous beliefs, well-being, then, is the ability to fluctuate between continuity and flexibility to attain harmony and balance (Comas-Diaz, 2006;Constantine, Myers, Kindaichi, & Moore, 2004;Heath, 2006;Levers, 2006;Portman & Garrett, 2006). Similarly, illness or disorder can be viewed as an imbalance, a constriction into too much continuity (rigidity) or expansion into too much flexibility (crisis and chaos; Siegel, 1999).…”

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Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Using Dynamic Systems Theory to Understand “Stress and Coping” and “Trauma and Resilience”

Keenan

2010

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

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Although research is beginning to capture the complex interactions of biopsychosocial variables operating within experiences of stressors and trauma, the bodies of research have remained largely separate and limited. This study describes a scaffold of factors and pathways based on principles from dynamic systems theories (DST) to organize the literatures on stress and coping and trauma and resilience. As a process model, DST provides the language to understand both impact and response to stressors and trauma: not as a list of symptoms but as interactive processes within persons and between persons and their surroundings.

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Native American Healing Traditions

Cited by 66 publications

References 13 publications

Acknowledging the Māori cultural values and beliefs embedded in rongoā Māori healing

Acknowledging the Māori cultural values and beliefs embedded in rongoā Māori healing

Religious and Spiritual Practices Among Homeless Urban American Indians and Alaska Natives with Severe Alcohol Problems

Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Using Dynamic Systems Theory to Understand “Stress and Coping” and “Trauma and Resilience”

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