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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Medicine Wheel"”.
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The Medicine Wheel for Carbohydrate Counting
… of a culturally specific web-based tool “The Medicine Wheel for Carbohydrate Counting.” This web-based educational tool reflects Native American culture and values, primarily of the Native Americans of the Northern Plains. In-depth interviews from ten adult Native Americans with a diagnosis of …
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Understanding The Relationship Between Cultural Wellness And Academic Achievement On Standing Rock Reservation
… cultural wellness integration, based on the Medicine Wheel model, and the following academic achievement measures: standardized achievement tests, attendance, graduation rates, and behavioral disciplinary referrals. The specific research questions that guided this study are: 1) Using a …
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Oneida College Lacrosse Players’ Perspectives of the Sacred Game of Lacrosse
… based on decolonizing practices and the sacred medicine wheel. One interpretation of the sacred medicine wheel is viewing the world through the lens of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual, and this was used as a framework for sharing our perceptions’ as collaborators in this …
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Change and Recovery from Substance Misuse: Native American Perspectives
… (TMC) and balance within the domains of the Medicine Wheel (MW). The guiding questions addressed: a) point of focus in sobriety and recovery phases within the domains of the MW, b) specific mechanisms at work, c) support systems, tools, temptations, motivating factors, maintenance, gains, …
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Change and Recovery from Substance Misuse: Native American Perspectives
… (TMC) and balance within the domains of the Medicine Wheel (MW). The guiding questions addressed: a) point of focus in sobriety and recovery phases within the domains of the MW, b) specific mechanisms at work, c) support systems, tools, temptations, motivating factors, maintenance, gains, …
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"Miss I just Don't Feel Like Reading Today": Urban Aboriginal and Black Nova Scotian Youth Perceptions of the Relationship Between Education, Health, and Wellbeing
… create a theoretical framework. The Mi’kmaq Medicine Wheel defines health and wellbeing. Four focus groups: five junior high Black learners; five high school Black male athletes; three young urban Aboriginal females not in school; four urban Aboriginal youth attending the Friendship Centre, …
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Design Approach for Building Technology with Indigenous Communities
… youth in Toronto, incorporating the Anishinaabe Medicine Wheel, 7 Grandparent Teachings, and Sharing Circles as main influencers. It also features an experience report of how the mobile development approach worked in practice. Two mobile platforms were built using this approach and achieved …
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Elders and Knowledge Keepers Perspectives on Practices to Support Indigenous Students’ Educational Well-Being: A Holistic Study
… Indigenous worldviews, practices of the medicine wheel and the dandelion metaphor was utilized for content analysis to analyze the data, and findings are represented by five themes, (1) residential schools and education, (2) education, (3) family/responsibility/relationship/belonging, (4) …
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Imagery, Technology, and Remote Adult Aboriginal Teacher Candidates: A Brock University Pilot Project
… media associated therein. The thesis honours the Medicine Wheel teachings and is presented within this cyclical framework that reflects Indigenous philosophies and belief systems. In accordance, Sharing Circle as methodology is used to keep the research culturally grounded, and tenets of narrative …
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Intimate Partner Violence: Implications For Northern Plains And Upper Midwest American Indian Mother-Daughter Dyads' Attachment Relationships
… of IPV utilizing the conceptual framework of the medicine wheel and the theoretical framework that includes IPV, attachment, ptsd symptoms, ethnic/cultural identity and various contextual variables.</p>
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The numinous land : examples of sacred geometry and geopiety in formalist and landscape paintings of the prairies
… of a sacred geometry, are the Mandala or Medicine Wheel, the Horizon, and the Axis Mundi or World Tree. Sacred geometry occurs across cultural boundaries, within the Academy, in the work of unschooled artists, in innovative and traditional art forms, with or without the conscious intention …
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Indigenous Language Reclamation: The Learners Perspective
… view, the traditional teachings of the Ojibwe medicine wheel were combined with the lessons of the seven Grandfathers to provide a methodological basis for conducting ethical research with and for the benefit of First Nations people. Within the context of our relationships with self, community, …
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An Exploration into the Criminalization of Indigenous Men in Canada: CCDA through Hubbard's Documentaries
… then employs Anishinaabeg teachings through the Medicine Wheel alongside Critical Cultural Discourse Analysis (CCDA). Both stages are applied to, as the primary focus, Dr. Tasha Hubbard's documentaries Two Worlds Colliding (2004) and nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019). Hubbard's …
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Place on the Plains: Modelling Past Movement Along the Red Deer River
… cobble features, comprised of rings, cairns, medicine wheels, and numerous other feature types. Recognizing the relational affordances active between past people and the environment enabled the identification of past significant places, revealed by the lasting imprints left by past place …
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Traditional Cultural Properties : a potential tool for community-driven historic preservation
… of four cases studies, Mt. Graham, Bighorn Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain, the Dune Shacks of the Peaked Hill Bars, and Gladesmen Folk Culture, illustrates several fundamental difficulties in the treatment of TCPs. First, emphasis on professionalization within the fields of Cultural …
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Exploring conceptions of disability held by Anishinaabe secondary school students
… conceptualise disability as an imbalance in the “medicine wheel”, which frames humans as seeking a balance in mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of themselves. The students engaged in myriad individual and community spiritual practices, for the purpose of seeking balance at home …