Physical Activity and Healing through the Medicine Wheel

• 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

[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).