The author recounts the story of his initiation as a ceremonial healer under the tutelage of a Choctaw medicine woman, an education during which he learned the arts of power plants and medicine animals, practiced working with human energies, and learned the folk stories of a primordial healer.

Product Description: Discusses Native Americans use of herbs and plants to heal illness and treat injuries, and explains some of the remedies, healing rituals, and the importance of medicine men.

Product Description: When Europeans discovered tobacco among Amerindians in the New World, it became a long-sought panacea of panaceas, the critical ingredient in enemas, ointments, syrups, and powders employed to treat everything from syphilis to cancer...read more

Product Description: Western medicine often sees healthcare as a battle against a disease or injury. Healers from the Native American tradition believe that true healing comes through dialogue in which we open ourselves to the wisdom our afflictions have to offer...read more

Product Description: What it means to be healthy or to heal is not universal from culture to culture, from religion to religion. Indeed, in many cultures religion and healing are intimately tied to each other. In Native American communities healing is conceived as the place where ideas about the body and selfhood are brought to light and expressed within healing traditions...read more

An introduction to Native American medicine explores their healing traditions, philosophy, and methods, explaining how such fundamental therapies as counseling, massage, and more can be integrated with western medicine, how Native Americans understand healing therapies, and how the Native American approach can be interpreted, all from the perspective of a traditional healer. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Describes the practices and discoveries made by American Indians in medicine and health, including their use of herbal remedies for insect bites and storytelling to ease depression.

Product Description: The spirit runs through the body, says Dr. Peate, a practicing physician who draws on his Iroquois heritage as well as his Western medical training. Listening with Your Heart is a beautifully illustrated gift book offering a rich gathering of time-honored sayings, sacred words, and practical suggestions to improve your health...read more

Integrating plant lore, history, and tradition, the author of American Indian Healing Arts presents a richly illustrated guide on how to create personal sacred spaces in the form of gardens, meditation landscapes, and outdoor altars, explaining how to design, construct, and plant medicine wheel gardens filled with medicinal herbs and life-enhancing energies. Original. (view table of contents)

A comprehensive guide to ancient Native American herbal and natural remedies describes the Native American concept of healing, which stresses the balance of mind, body, and spirit; offers an alphabetical listing of herbal therapies and their recipes; and discusses other healing practices that can be used with herbs. Original. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A guide to the rich tradition of healing techniques for the mind, body and spirit passed on from generation to generation of Native Americans.

Improving the dire health problems faced by many Native American communities is central to their cultural, political, and economic well being. However, it is still too often the case that both theoretical studies and applied programs fail to account for Native American perspectives on the range of factors that actually contribute to these problems in the first place. The authors in Medicine Ways examine the ways people from a multitude of indigenous communities think about and practice health care within historical and socio-cultural contexts. Cultural and physical survival are inseparable for Native Americans. Chapters explore biomedically-identified diseases, such as cancer and diabetes, as well as Native-identified problems, including historical and contemporary experiences such as forced evacuation, assimilation, boarding school, poverty and a slew of federal and state policies and initiatives. They also explore applied solutions that are based in community prerogatives and worldviews, whether they be indigenous, Christian, biomedical, or some combination of all three. Medicine Ways is an important volume for scholars and students in Native American studies, medical anthropology, and sociology as well as for health practitioners and professionals working in and for tribes. Visit the UCLA American Indian Studies Center web site (view table of contents)

(view table of contents)

An experienced herbalist presents a wonderfully illustrated exploration of Native American rituals that fostered a spiritual bond between man and nature and offers recipes for herbal remedies, massage oils, traditional medications, and much more. Original.

Presents the views of a Cherokee healer on Native spiritual and medical traditions, a Native American look at history, and related subjects (view table of contents)