Cultural Competency in Healthcare: American Indian/Alaska Native

Spirit Doctors 2005  National Film Board of Canada ("I really like this movie - it follows traditional healers in British Columbia, and explores the differences between traditional healing and modern curing, among other things." Dr. Sebastian Braun, Director, American Indian Studies Program
Iowa State University)

"Honoring Health: Resources for American Indians and Alaska Natives is an e-newsletter that features a different health topic in each issue and highlights resources, events, training, and grants and funding opportunities. It is produced by the NIAMS on behalf of the National Institutes of Health, the Indian Health Service, and the Administration for Community Living’s Administration on Aging."

The following list of recourses have been recommended by: 

Dr. Sebastian Braun
Director, American Indian Studies Program
Iowa State University

Commentary about each resource from Dr. Braun. The DMU library does not have own or license these books. Links have been embedded to facilitate ordering the book through interlibrary loan. 

• Mim Dixon and Pamela E. Iron  2006  Strategies for Cultural Competency in Indian Health Care. Washington, D.C.: American Public Health Organization.  
• Everett R. Rhoades (ed.)  2000  American Indian Health. Innovations in Health Care, Promotion, and Policy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. "An exhaustive, and slightly out-of-date overview for everything anybody ever wanted to know."  
• James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, and T. Kue Young  2002 (1997)  Aboriginal Health in Canada. Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (See above, but for Canada.)
• Carolyn Smith-Morris  2006  Diabetes among the Pima. Stories of Survival. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. (A great case study.)
• Maureen Trudelle Schwarz  2008  "I Choose Life." Contemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the Navajo World. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. "Dealing with differential approaches to medicine between traditional medicine, Native American Church members (Peyote), and Christian Navajos."
• Theresa DeLeane O'Nell  1996  Disciplined Hearts. History, Identity, and Depression in an American Indian Community. Berkeley: University of California Press "A really good study of psychology and culture regarding depression and alcoholism."
• Barbara Gurr  2015  Reproductive Justice. The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
• Thomas H. Lewis  1990  The Medicine Men. Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. "An overview of traditional practices in the late 1960's and early 1970's.