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Title Under the rattlesnake : Cherokee health and resiliency / edited by Lisa J. Lefler ; foreword by Susan Leading Fox (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary American Indian studies
Contemporary American Indian studies.
Contents Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Tohi: The Cherokee Concept of Well-Being; 2. The Unintended Consequences of Prehistoric Skeletal Studies to Modern Cherokee Communities; 3. Adverse Reactions: Practicing Bioarchaeology among the Cherokee; 4. Historical Trauma, Stress, and Diabetes: A Modern Model among the Eastern Band of Cherokees; 5. The Effect of Traditional Dietary Practices on Contemporary Diseases among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; 6. The Sacred Feminine in Cherokee Culture: Healing and Identity; References; Contributors; Index
Summary For the Cherokee, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. The natural state of the world is to be neutral, balanced, with a similarly gently flowing pattern. States of imbalance, tension, or agitation are indicative of physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual illness and whether caused intentionally through omission or commission, or by outside actions or influences, the result affects and endangers the collective Cherokee. Taking a true anthro
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-156) and index
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Subject Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene.
Cherokee Indians -- Medicine
Indians of North America.
Public health.
Indians, North American
Public Health
Resilience, Psychological
public health.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
Public health
Indians of North America
Cherokee Indians -- Medicine
Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene
Form Electronic book
Author Lefler, Lisa J
LC no. 2008043152
ISBN 9780817381585
0817381589
0817316493
9780817316495
0817355294
9780817355296