Native American Traditional medicine

Acupuncture and Acupressure

• First known as chinese inventions
• For Native Americans the chinese beliefs for rebalancing yin and Yang are similar
• Porcupine quills, thorns, or wooden or bone needles
• Some consider acupressure to be a massage
• Sometimes instead of pressure, heat is applied

Definition

• Inserting needles/applying pressure to specific parts of the body for pain release and healing effects

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Tobacco

Sufferings, cure, remedies, etc.

• Connects the earth and the sky. The pipe is a way that they pray. The smoke is their message.
• delivers positive force
• Gets rid of the sins in life
• Many tribes grew medicine tobacco
• the leaves are made into remedies, medication, and sometimes poison
• Cancels poisons, cavities, skin conditions, etc
• neutralizes evil spirits and such.
• Used to help sick horses

• Native Americans would determine life and death of a suffering person
• Remedies from plants and animals, ceremonies, body energy flow
• Illnesses and diseases were like the unbalanced force of yin and yang
• In any case, shamans could heal the majority of sufferings

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Overview

Sacred objects and beliefs

When the Europeans came

• All tribes had a shaman
• Spirits would pass knowledge by dreams, visions and natural events
• Uses power of spirits or just herbs to heal
• Medicinal items and objects are powerful
• Sacred shields, instruments, medicinal bags, jewels, etc.

• New wounds from guns and swords
• Smallpox epidemic and measles
• Some new diseases could not even be cured by European doctors
• Some tribes turned against the Europeans because they thought they were devils and evil spirits

• Sacred objects and beliefs
• Illnesses, diseases, cures, and remedies
• Energy, harmony, and natural flow in the body (with Acupressure and Acupressure).
• Tobacco
• When the Europeans came

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Native American Traditional medicine, healing, and healing beliefs

Picture Bibliography

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• "DIY GIFT IDEA: Flavored Cooking Oils In Beautiful Bottles." Inhabitat Sustainable Design Innovation Eco Architecture Green Building DIY GIFT IDEA Flavored Cooking Oils In Beautiful Bottles Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. June 2014.
• "APPENDIX 1: What Is a Yei'bi'chi Dance?" Art and Traditional Healing: Native American Art and the Yei'bi'ci Winter Healing Ceremony. N.p., n.d. Web. June 2014.
• "Buckskin Leather Medicine Bag." Medicine Bag Hand Stitched Saddle Buckskin Leather. N.p., n.d. Web. June 2014.
• "The Eastern Woodland Hunters - Environment / Housing." The Eastern Woodland Hunters - Environment / Housing. N.p., n.d. Web. June 2014.
• "MATRIARCHY in a Modern Society Is Often Mis-understood ~ Empowering Women." A Celebration of Women. N.p., n.d. Web. June 2014.
• "Natural Balance." N.p., n.d. Web. June 2014.
• http://www.manataka.org/page1859.html
• "Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo." Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo. N.p., n.d. Web. June 2014.
• "Native American Tobacco Cultivation and Uses." Native American Tobacco Cultivation and Uses. N.p., n.d. Web. June 2014.
• "Sweat Lodge - Crystalinks." Sweat Lodge - Crystalinks. N.p., n.d. Web. June 2014.
• "Ways Europeans Changed Native Americans." Ways Europeans Changed Native Americans. N.p., n.d. Web. June 2014.
• "PLAINFIELD TODAY." : Thanksgiving: Remembering My Illegal Immigrant Roots. N.p., n.d. Web. June 2014.