Indigenous Health
Healing the Colonized Body: From Fight or Flight to Tend and Befriend
November 14, 2025
Discover how relational healing, oxytocin, and the tend-and-befriend stress response expand traditional biomedical models and support trauma recovery, resilience, and holistic well-being.
Artemisia ludoviciana (Estafiate) in Indigenous and Modern Medicine
August 28, 2025
Estafiate has long been central to Indigenous medicine in Mexico, valued for treating digestive and respiratory ailments, while also playing a key role in ceremony and cosmology. Documented in early codices and still widely used today, estafiate reflects the resilience of Indigenous knowledge and its ongoing dialogue with modern science.
Beyond PTSD: Intergenerational Trauma and the Legacy of Colonization
August 28, 2025
Trauma is not only about events, but also about how they are understood within a culture. For Indigenous peoples, ancestral stories and communal practices can buffer the effects of disaster, while disruptions fracture lifeways and deepen loss. These contrasts reveal how meaning-making, kinship, and resilience shape the legacy of trauma.
On Storytelling
Since I began this lifelong project of learning and preserving Indigenous knowlege about plant foods and medicines, story telling has played a central role in the process.
About the history of oral tradition…..
This is the idea behind sharing these stories now…
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Elina Vesara
Ostern Fund
