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• Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest

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  NARA provides integrated health, mental health, substance abuse treatment, and social services to Native American and Alaska Native people in the Portland area.

• Therapeutic Nations

  Healing in An Age of Indigenous Human Rights

  Million, Dian, 1950-

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  Indigenous creator (Athabascan). Therapeutic Nations is the first book to demonstrate affect and trauma's wide-ranging historical origins in an Indigenous setting, offering insights into community healing programs.

• A Beginner's Guide to Native American Herbal Medicine

  75 Natural Remedies for Wellness and Balance

  Queen, Angela Locklear,

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  Indigenous creator (Lumbee). Written by an Indigenous herbalist, this guide shows you how to responsibly use traditional plants to treat anxiety, colds, inflammation, and more.

• A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle

  Revelations of Indigenous Wisdom ; Healing Plants, Practices, and Stories

  Young, David E. (David Earl)

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  Indigenous creator (Willier, Woods Cree). Details the life and healing practices of medicine man Russell Willier, materials on the plants used by Willier, and information on the active ingredients in these plants and their uses in alternative…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Indian Contributions to the World. Medicine and Health

  Keoke, Emory Dean

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  Indigenous creator (Standing Rock Sioux). Presents a comprehensive study of the Native American contributions in the area of medicine and health.

• Book of Hope

  Healthcare and Survival in the North

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  Indigenous creator (Tetlit Gwich'in). Firsthand narratives from Northern and Indigenous cancer survivors and caregivers offer compassionate advice and insightful analysis about healthcare in rural northern communities.

• Calling My Spirit Back

  Alec, Elaine,

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  Indigenous creator (Syilx/Secwepemc). These stories are teachings, prophecy and protocols shared with Alec throughout the years by elders, language speakers, medicine people and helpers, and have taught her how to cultivate safe space for herself…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Restoring the Kinship Worldview

  Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth

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  Indigenous contributors from different Nations. 28 powerful excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders, including Mourning Dove, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Winona LaDuke, and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez. Accompanied by the editors’ own analyses, each chapter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Flourishing Kin

  Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-being

  Celidwen, Yuria,

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  Indigenous creator (Nahua/Maya). Celidwin teaches that attending only to our own state of mind is precisely why so many of us struggle to be happy, identifying seven key principles found in Indigenous cultures worldwide that embrace virtue, ethical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Healing the Soul Wound

  Trauma-informed Counseling for Indigenous Communities

  Duran, Eduardo, 1949-

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  Indigenous creator (Apache/Tewa/Lakota). Geared towards mental health professionals, this book provides guidance to those working with Native Peoples and other vulnerable populations, including effective intervention strategies for ailments such as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Held by the Land

  a Guide to Indigenous Plants for Wellness = Wa Ch'ích'istway Ta Temíxw : Spén̓em Txwnam̓ Ta Ha7lh Sk̲wálwen

  Joseph, Leigh,

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  Indigenous creator (Squamish). The Indigenous Peoples of North America have long traditions of using native plants as medicine as well as for food. This book honors and shares some of these traditions, including information on their characteristics,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hollow Tree

  Fighting Addiction With Traditional Native Healing

  Nabigon, Herb

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  Indigenous creator (Biigtigong Nishnaabeg). Elder Nabigon (1942-2016) shares his healing journey and how Indigenous culture guided him to a life of kindness, honesty, courage, and humility.

• It Was Never Going to Be Okay

  simpson, jaye,

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  Indigenous creator (Oji-Cree-Saulteaux). A collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, and urban Indigenous diaspora, moving away from a linear timeline of healing to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Legacy

  Trauma, Story and Indigenous Healing

  Methot, Suzanne, 1968-

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  Indigenous creator (Cree/Nehiyaw). Explores intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities and strategies for healing with provocative prose and an empathetic approach.

• Killing the Wittigo

  Indigenous Culture-based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action, and Doing the Work of Healing : a Book for Young Adults

  Methot, Suzanne, 1968-

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  Indigenous creator (Cree/Nehiyaw). Teen Non-Fiction. Explains the traumatic effects of colonization on Indigenous people and communities and how trauma alters an individual's brain, body, and behavior, and offers examples of the ways in which…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Seven Circles

  Indigenous Teachings for Living Well

  Luger, Chelsey,

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  Indigenous creators (Luger (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa/Sans Arc/Hunkpapa Lakota/Standing Rock), Collins (On Akimel O'odham/Seneca-Cayuga/Osage)). The authors present a wellness guide rooted in Indigenous ancestral knowledge, offering wisdom…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Medicine Wheel for the Planet

  a Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing

  Grenz, Jennifer,

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  Indigenous creator (Nlaka'pamux mixed ancestry). Building on sacred stories and field observations, Grenz shares her personal journey of joining Western science and her Indigenous worldview to find a truer path toward ecological healing.

• Spirit Wheel

  Meditations From An Indigenous Elder

  Charleston, Steven, 1949-

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  Indigenous creator (Choctaw). More than two hundred poem-like blessings that turn our attention to beauty, mystery, common sense, and how to live with compassion and hope and justice in hard times.

• Standing in a River of Time

  Poems

  Kirton, Jónína, 1955-

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  Indigenous creator (Red River Métis). Merges poetry and lyrical memoir on a journey exposing the intergenerational effects of colonization on a Métis family, and discusses the healing modalities Kirton has explored as she discovers that the path to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Who Walk the Seven Ways

  a Memoir

  Trevor, Terra,

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  Indigenous creator (Cherokee/Lenape/Seneca). A memoir about seeking healing and finding belonging. After a difficult loss, a circle of Native women elders embraced and guided Trevor through the seven cycles of life in the Indigenous ways.