Your Librarian
Monday through Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Available by appointment
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
1301 N Columbia Road
Initiatives and Organizations:
FAST Blackfeet - Food Access and Sustainability Team
First Nations Development Initiative - works to foster various initiatives across the country via grants, scholarships, education
- Gather Food Sovereignty Project - education, grants, and full-length documentary film
- Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice
- Native Farm to School
- Western Covid-19 Response Grant
Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations - National USDA program organizing many local initiatives across the US
Tribal Leaders Diabetes Committee - makes recommendations to the IHS Director on broad-based policy and advocacy priorities for diabetes and related chronic conditions as well as recommends a process for the distribution of Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI) funds.
Resources:
Native American Ethnobotany Database - A database of plants used as drugs, foods, dyes, fibers, and more, by native Peoples of North America, cross-referenced with the USDA Plants Database
American Indian Health and Diet Project - Includes traditional indigenous recipes
Eagle Books - children's books to foster healthy living
Get Fresh Cooking Program - recipe website created by the Chickasaw Nation
Indigikitchen - recipe and education website created by Mariah Blackstone (Blackfeet, Cherokee), member of FAST Blackfeet
Recipes Wrapped with Love - recipe website created by Chickasaw Nation to facilitate food sovereignty and healthy eating
Keywords:
community garden
farmers' market nutrition program
farmer's market voucher
food dessert
food distribution program (FDP)
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
Search terms:
PubMed
"Complementary Therapies"[Mesh]
"Culturally Competent Care"[Mesh]
"Ethnopharmacology"[Mesh]
"Alaskan Natives"[Mesh]
"American Native Continental Ancestry Group"[Mesh]
"Health Services, Indigenous"[Mesh]
"Indians, North American"[Mesh]
"Inuits"[Mesh]
"Medicine, Traditional"[Mesh]
"United States Indian Health Service"[Mesh]
CINAHL
(MH"Native Americans") [NOTE: "For native peoples of the United States and non-Arctic Alaska regions"]
(MH"Medicine, Traditional")
(MH"Medicine, Native American")
(MH"Inuit") [NOTE: "Group of culturally similar indigenous peoples of Arctic and near-Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland."
(MH"Indigenous Peoples")
(MH"Health Services, Indigenous")
(MH"Eskimos") [Note: "For genetic and physiological as well as cultural and social discussion of Eskimos."
Books on nutrition, food sovereignty, and food as traditional medicine
Held by the Land by ISBN: 9781577152941Publication Date: 2023-03-07from Bookshop.org: "Author Leigh Joseph, an ethnobotanist and a member of the Squamish Nation, provides a beautifully illustrated essential introduction to Indigenous plant knowledge.
Plants can be a great source of healing as well as nourishment, and the practice of growing and harvesting from trees, flowering herbs, and other plants is a powerful way to become more connected to the land. The Indigenous Peoples of North America have long traditions of using native plants as medicine as well as for food. Held by the Land honors and shares some of these traditions, offering a guide to:
-Harvesting herbs and other plants and using them topically
-North American plants that can treat common ailments, add nutrition to your diet, become part of your beauty regime, and more
-Stories and traditions about native plants from the author's Squamish culture
-Using plant knowledge to strengthen your connection to the land you live on"
