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The Missing Enzyme
October 8, 2026
Examining the relationship between pre-colonial food systems, metabolic health, and resilience.
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Sacred Tobacco Part 3
October 1, 2026
Commercial Tobacco was designed to exploit vulnerabilities caused by colonial disruption, but Indigenous-led initiatives are reclaiming Tobacco as a sacred medicine and separating it from nicotine addiction. Culturally grounded cessation programs support healing through traditional knowledge, spiritual guidance, and community engagement.
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Sacred Tobacco Part 2
September 24, 2026
Part 2 of a three-part series on sacred tobacco explores ancestral teachings, traditional stories, and the plant's ceremonial uses. Discover how tobacco functions as a healer and relative in Indigenous communities. This piece offers insights into cultural and spiritual reclamation and sets the stage for Part 3, which examines the reclamation programs and recovery from addiction.
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Sacred Tobacco Part 1
September 17, 2026
Part one of a three-part series exploring sacred tobacco in Indigenous communities: uncover how colonial extractivism and Big Tobacco’s commercialization distorted its sacred role, setting the stage for cultural and spiritual reclamation through ancestral teachings in the following posts.
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Food as Medicine
August 20, 2026
As traditional food systems have faded, our health has suffered. The foods we eat now cause chronic health problems and differ greatly from the diets that once matched our local environments. In losing these traditions, we have also lost food’s roles as medicine and as a way to bring people together.
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Nuclear Contamination and Indigenous Health
May 22, 2026
This first installment of the Hanford Series explores the lasting impacts of nuclear contamination on Indigenous health, land-based lifeways, and cultural continuity among the Sahaptin peoples. Through personal reflection, historical context, and Indigenous environmental perspectives, the article examines how contamination moves through water, food, ceremony, and community across the Columbia Plateau.
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Reclaiming Cultural Diversity as a Pathway to Nutritional Justice
May 14, 2026
An exploration of how cultural diversity, Indigenous food sovereignty, and ancestral knowledge offer pathways to nutritional justice. This post examines nutrition trauma caused by colonization and globalization, and highlights how reclaiming traditional food systems strengthens community resilience, health equity, and cultural identity.
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Indigenous Ways of Knowing
May 7, 2026
Explore how Indigenous health systems, grounded in relational and ecological practices, can expand evidence frameworks, advance health equity, and bridge global health research.
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Mapping Epistemological Scales
April 24, 2026
This post examines the distinctions between traditional, tribal, and Indigenous epistemologies, highlighting how each system is shaped by context, governance, and responsibility. Clarifying these differences supports more ethical, precise, and respectful engagement with Indigenous knowledge systems.
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