Native American contributions to medicine


  • Lisa Pivec, National Indian Health Board Area Impact Award Recipient

    The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) awarded Lisa Pivec, Cherokee Nation’s Senior Director of Public Health, the Area Impact Award for her role in advancing health in Indian Country. NIHB’s 2016 Heroes in Native Health Awards acknowledged individuals and organizations whose work helps improve American Indian and Alaska Native health. NIHB recogn...

  • Alaska’s Community Health Aide Program

    Recruited from communities they serve, community health aides are frontline workers, providing preventive and primary health care to America’s diverse communities. Alaska’s Community Health Aide Program has been in operation since the 1950s, and its practitioners are the backbone of rural and frontier health care in Alaska, delivering primary, dent...

  • Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, First Female Native American Doctor

    Born on the Omaha Indian Reservation in 1865, Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first Native American woman in the United States to become a physician. Dr. Picotte was a noted public health activist, promoting temperance and hygiene on the Omaha Reservation. She cared for both Native Americans and white people during her years of practice, often...

  • The “Lakota Grandmas”

    The Lakota TB and Health Association originated in 1953 during a tuberculosis outbreak among the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe. The founders were four Lakota grandmothers who took management of the outbreak into their own hands. These women?Phoebe Downing (Standing Rock), Eunice Larrabee (Cheyenne River), Alfreda Janis Bergin (Pine Ridge), and Irene G...

  • Annie Dodge Wauneka, Presidential Medal of Freedom Winner

    Annie Dodge Wauneka, born in 1910, was the first Navajo Nationfemale elected to serve on the Navajo Tribal Council. She was bestowed the highest civilian honor award, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, for her lifelong work to integrate cultures, allowing for innovations in medicine to be used on the Navajo Reservation to fight devastating commu...

  • Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail, “Grandmother of American Indian Nurses”

    Born in 1903, orphaned as a child, and raised in a boarding school on the Crow Reservation, Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail became the first registered nurse among the Crow people and also one of the first in the United States. After working with many tribes as a nurse and then returning to work on the Crow Reservation, she began to travel across the...

How have Native American medicinal practices influenced modern medicine?

Indigenous healing practices among Native Americans have been documented in the United States since colonisation. Cultural encapsulation has deterred the acknowledgement of Native American medicinal practices as a precursor to folk medicine and many herbal remedies, which have greatly influenced modern medicine.

Does NIH help Navajo tribes protect their intellectual property?

Modern medicine has not always given Native Americans credit for their contributions, but David R. Wilson, a member of the Navajo Nation and the director of the National Institutes of Health’s Tribal Health Research Office, says that NIH today helps tribes to protect their intellectual property.

Why do Native Americans seek traditional healing?

Native Americans sought traditional healing for arthritis*, depression/anxiety,back pain, and diabetes mellitus* as much as Western medicine. Family problems and insomnia more common reasonsfor visits to native healers than medical providers.

Do indigenous peoples have the right to their traditional medicines?

Indigenous peoples have the right to their traditional medicines and to maintain their health practices, including the conservation of their vital medicinal plants, animals, and minerals [1]. Limitations This scoping review was an attempt to catalogue the literature in the area of traditional Indigenous medicine in the North American context.

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