Physical Activity and Healing through the Medicine Wheel

[Introduction from 1st paragraph] According to Wesley-Esquimaux and Smolewski (2004), Indigenous people have experienced unremitting trauma as a result of colonization. The un-remitting trauma of colonization included physical disconnection with children being removed from families and communities;...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lynn F Lavallée
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: 2007
Subjects:
Traditional Indigenous medicine and treatments
Indigenous peoples
Medicine
Indigenous peoples > North America > Rites and ceremonies
Medicine wheels
esquimaux
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.32920/ryerson.14668806.v1
https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Physical_Activity_and_Healing_through_the_Medicine_Wheel/14668806
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Summary:[Introduction from 1st paragraph] According to Wesley-Esquimaux and Smolewski (2004), Indigenous people have experienced unremitting trauma as a result of colonization. The un-remitting trauma of colonization included physical disconnection with children being removed from families and communities; mental disconnection with forced assimilation, forbidding the use of Aboriginal languages; changes in political and social structures; emotional disconnection by enforcement of the stereotypical view of “savage Indians” needing assimilation; and spiritual disconnection by banning of Indigenous cultural ceremonies (Chansonneuve, 2005).

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