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Medicines to help us : traditional Métis plant use : study prints & resource guide

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Belcourt, Christi, Flamand, Rita (translator), Burnouf, Laura (translator), Richardson, Rose. Saskatoon, SK: Gabriel Dumont Institute , 2007.

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Call Number: WB55 B427 2007

Availability: 4 copies, 4 available

Author: Belcourt, Christi; Flamand, Rita (translator); Burnouf, Laura (translator); Richardson, Rose

Place of Publication: Saskatoon, SK

Publisher: Gabriel Dumont Institute

Publication Date: 2007

Physical Description: xv, 80 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 23 cm

Subjects: Ethnobotany; Plants, Medicinal; Medicine, Traditional; Indigenous Canadians; First Nations; Popular Work; Pictorial Works

ISBN: 9780920915790

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Victoria Cancer Info Ctr; Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr; Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: WB55 B427 2007

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Wisdom engaged : traditional knowledge for Northern Community well-Being

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Edmonton, AB: Polynya Press , 2019. 1st ed.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WA300 J67 2019

Availability: 2 copies, 2 available

Editor: Johnson, Leslie Main

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Edmonton, AB

Publisher: Polynya Press

Publication Date: 2019

Physical Description: xiv, 402 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing; v. 3

Subjects: First Nations; Indigenous Canadians; Healthy Lifestyle; Medicine, Traditional; Plants, Medicinal; Spiritual Therapies; Canada; Popular Work

Notes: This resource was purchased with a donation from the Order of the Eastern Star.

ISBN: 9781772124101

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: WA300 J67 2019

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Determinants of indigenous peoples' health in Canada : beyond the social

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Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars Press , 2018. 2nd ed.

Audience: Professional

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Editor: Greenwood, Margo; de Leeuw, Sarah; Lindsay, Nicole Marie

Edition: 2nd ed.

Place of Publication: Toronto, ON

Publisher: Canadian Scholars Press

Publication Date: 2018

Series: Proquest Ebook Central

Subjects: Indigenous Canadians; First Nations; Health Services, Indigenous; Social Determinants of Health - history; Health Status Disparities; Medicine, Traditional

ISBN: 9781773380391

Language: English

Material Type: Ebook

Audience: Professional

Location: Internet

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Medicinal Plants and Cancer Chemoprevention

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Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press , c2024. 1st ed.

Audience: Professional

"Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally. Medicinal Plants and Cancer Chemoprevention provides information on the use of various herbal plants used as anticancer agents. It discusses the traditional system of medicine and focuses on plant-derived compounds for cancer therapy with inte…

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Editor: Malviya, Sapna; Malviya, Neelesh

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Florida

Publisher: CRC Press

Publication Date: c2024

Series: Proquest Ebook Central

Subjects: Plants, Medicinal; Neoplasms - therapy; Antineoplastic Agents; Chemoprevention

Abstract: "Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally. Medicinal Plants and Cancer Chemoprevention provides information on the use of various herbal plants used as anticancer agents. It discusses the traditional system of medicine and focuses on plant-derived compounds for cancer therapy with integrated approaches. Chapters present information on various medicinal plants that covers background and history, ethnomedical considerations, morphology, phytochemistry, and pharmacological properties. The book presents a scientific investigation on medicinal plants in managing cancer, reported mechanisms of action as anticancer activity, as well as covering the toxicological aspects of certain plants.; KEY FEATURES:; Details information on plant-derived compounds for cancer therapy; Features information on methods of extraction and isolation of various phytoconstituents responsible for anticancer activity; Discusses herbal formulations and alternative approaches used for the management and treatment of cancer; Demonstrates the importance of alternative approaches including yoga, acupuncture, and dietary supplements to be effective in the management of cancer; This book is helpful to botanists, researchers and practitioners in alternative and complementary medicine, and the herbal medicine research community." --publisher

ISBN: 9781032170763

Language: English

Material Type: Ebook

Audience: Professional

Location: Internet

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Knowledge seeker: embracing indigenous spirituality

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Stonechild, Blair. Regina, SK: University of Regina Press , 2016.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WB885 S881 2016

Availability: 3 copies, 3 available

Author: Stonechild, Blair

Place of Publication: Regina, SK

Publisher: University of Regina Press

Publication Date: 2016

Physical Description: xv, 244 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Spirituality; First Nations; Indigenous Canadians; Popular Work

ISBN: 9780889774179

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Prince George Cancer Info Ctr; Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: WB885 S881 2016

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tawâw: progressive Indigenous cuisine

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Chartrand, Shane M., Cockrall-King, Jennifer. Toronto, ON: House of Anansi Press , 2019.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: QZ266 N9 C486 2019

Availability: 2 copies, 2 available

Author: Chartrand, Shane M.; Cockrall-King, Jennifer

Place of Publication: Toronto, ON

Publisher: House of Anansi Press

Publication Date: 2019

Physical Description: xv, 301p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Subjects: Indigenous Canadians; First Nations; Cooking; Cookbook; Popular Work

Notes: This resource was purchased with a donation from the Order of the Eastern Star.

ISBN: 9781487005122

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: QZ266 N9 C486 2019

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Arts of Indigenous health and well-being

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Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press , 2021.

Audience: Professional; Patient or Public

Call Number: WA300 A792 2021

Availability: 2 copies, 2 available

Contents:; Introduction. "Art for Life's Sake": Approaches to Indigenous Arts, Health, and Well-Being -- Part 1. Material Culture, Embodiment, and Well-Being -- Chapter 1. What This Pouch Holds -- Chapter 2. Baskets, Birchbark Scrolls, and Maps of Land: Indigenous Making Practices as Oral Hisoriogr…

Editor: Van Styvendale, Nancy; McDougall, J. D.; Henry, Robert; Innes, Robert Alexander

Place of Publication: Winnipeg, MB

Publisher: University of Manitoba Press

Publication Date: 2021

Physical Description: 272 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Medicine in the Arts; Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous Canadians

Abstract: Contents:; Introduction. "Art for Life's Sake": Approaches to Indigenous Arts, Health, and Well-Being -- Part 1. Material Culture, Embodiment, and Well-Being -- Chapter 1. What This Pouch Holds -- Chapter 2. Baskets, Birchbark Scrolls, and Maps of Land: Indigenous Making Practices as Oral Hisoriography -- Chapter 3. For Kaydence and Her Cousins: Health and Happiness in Cultural Legacies and Contemporary Contexts -- Part 2. Community Health and Wellness -- Chapter 4. Stories and Staying Power: Artmaking as (Re)Source of Cultural Resilience and Well-Being for Panniqtumiut

ISBN: 9780887559396

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Status: Received

Audience: Professional; Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Kelowna Library

Call Number: WA300 A792 2021

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Life stages and Native women : memory, teachings, and story medicine

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Anderson, Kim. Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press , 2011.

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Call Number: WB55 A545 2011

Availability: 2 copies, 2 available

Rediscovering the stories of the past serves as a healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. Anderson shares the teachings of elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Métis, Cree, and Anishinaabe…

Author: Anderson, Kim

Place of Publication: Winnipeg, MB

Publisher: University of Manitoba Press

Publication Date: 2011

Physical Description: xix, 210 pages ; 23 cm

Series: Critical studies in Native history

Subjects: First Nations; Indigenous women; Indigenous Canadians; Medicine, Traditional; Women's Health; Family; Popular Work; Personal Narratives

Abstract: Rediscovering the stories of the past serves as a healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. Anderson shares the teachings of elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Métis, Cree, and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid-twentieth century. Anderson explains how this traditional knowledge can be applied toward rebuilding healthy Indigenous communities today.

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ISBN: 9780887557262

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: WB55 A545 2011

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Siha Tooskin knows the best medicine

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Bearhead, Charlene, Bearhead, Wilson, Mustooch. Chloe Bluebird (Illustrator). Winnipeg, MB: HighWater Press , 2020.

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Call Number: WA300 C5 B368 2020

Availability: 3 copies, 3 available

"When Siha Tooskin--Paul Wahasaypa--finds himself feeling ill, he learns that there are answers for him from the healing practices of his own people and from Western medicine. Nakota medicine gathered, prepared, and administered in ceremony and prayerWestern medicine measured and created in laborat…

Alternate Title: The best medicine

Author: Bearhead, Charlene; Bearhead, Wilson; Mustooch. Chloe Bluebird (Illustrator)

Place of Publication: Winnipeg, MB

Publisher: HighWater Press

Publication Date: 2020

Physical Description: 22 pages : colour illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series: Siha Tooskin knows

Subjects: First Nations; Indigenous Canadians; Child, Hospitalized; Medicine, Traditional; Intergenerational Relations; Juvenile Literature; Popular Work

Abstract: "When Siha Tooskin--Paul Wahasaypa--finds himself feeling ill, he learns that there are answers for him from the healing practices of his own people and from Western medicine. Nakota medicine gathered, prepared, and administered in ceremony and prayerWestern medicine measured and created in laboratories, yet they have some things in common. Discover with Paul as he learns more about where modern medicine#x1D; really comes from and how we can all benefit from Indigenous and Western healers as he seeks the best medicine for his own wellness."-- Provided by publisher

ISBN: 9781553798408

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: WA300 C5 B368 2020

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Truth telling : seven conversations about Indigenous life in Canada

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Good, Michelle. Toronto, ON: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd , 2023.

Audience: Professional

Call Number: E78.C2 G66t 2023

Availability: 3 copies, 2 available

Author: Good, Michelle

Place of Publication: Toronto, ON

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Publication Date: 2023

Physical Description: 215 p. : ill. ; 20 cm

Subjects: Indigenous Canadians; Indigenous Canadians - history; Indigenous Canadians - legislation & jurisprudence; Reconciliation; Race Relations; Culture

ISBN: 9781443467810

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Professional

Location: Vancouver Library; Kelowna Library; Victoria Library

Call Number: E78.C2 G66t 2023

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Introduction to determinants of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples' health in Canada

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Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars Press , 2022.

Audience: Professional

Call Number: WA300 I61i 2022

Availability: 2 copies, 2 available

Editor: Greenwood, Margo; de Leeuw, Sarah; Stout, Roberta

Place of Publication: Toronto, ON

Publisher: Canadian Scholars Press

Publication Date: 2022

Physical Description: xxiii, 290 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subjects: Health Services, Indigenous; Social Determinants of Health - history; Health Status Disparities; Medicine, Traditional; Indigenous Canadians; First Nations; Canada

ISBN: 9781773383194

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Professional

Location: Vancouver Library; Abbotsford Library

Call Number: WA300 I61i 2022

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Improving Indigenous cancer journeys in BC : a road map

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First Nations Health Authority, Metis Nation British Columbia, BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres, BC Cancer Agency. [West Vancouver, BC]: First Nations Health Authority , 2017.

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Corporate Author: First Nations Health Authority; Metis Nation British Columbia; BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres; BC Cancer Agency

Place of Publication: [West Vancouver, BC]

Publisher: First Nations Health Authority

Publication Date: 2017

Subjects: Patient Navigation; Health Services, Indigenous; Self Care; Social Support; Culturally Competent Care; Neoplasms - psychology; Neoplasms - therapy; Neoplasms - rehabilitation; Medicine, Traditional; First Nations; Patient Education Handout

Language: English

Material Type: Booklet; Online

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Internet

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Research and reconciliation : unsettling ways of knowing through indigenous relationships

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Toronto, Vancouver: Canadian Scholars , 2019.

Audience: Professional

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Editor: Wilson, Shawn; Breen, Andrea V.; DuPré, Lindsay

Place of Publication: Toronto, Vancouver

Publisher: Canadian Scholars

Publication Date: 2019

Series: Proquest Ebook Central

Subjects: Indigenous Canadians; Social sciences - research

ISBN: 9781773381176; 9781773381152

Language: English

Material Type: Ebook

Audience: Professional

Location: Internet

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Traditional Chinese medicine approaches to cancer : harmony in the face of the tiger

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McGrath, Henry. Philadelphia, PA: Singing Dragon , 2009.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: QZ266 M478t 2009

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

Author: McGrath, Henry

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, PA

Publisher: Singing Dragon

Publication Date: 2009

Physical Description: 254 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subjects: Neoplasms - therapy; Medicine, Chinese Traditional

ISBN: 9781848190139

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library

Call Number: QZ266 M478t 2009

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Unreconciled : family, truth, and indigenous resistance

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Wente, Jess. , 2021.

Audience: Professional

Call Number: E99.C6 W477 2021

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

Author: Wente, Jess

Publication Date: 2021

Physical Description: 199 p. ; 20 cm

Subjects: Indigenous Canadians; Race Relations; Culture; Gender Role; Reconciliation; Personal Narratives

ISBN: 9780735235755

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Professional

Location: Vancouver Library

Call Number: E99.C6 W477 2021

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Restored harmony : an evidence based approach for ingegrating traditional Chinese medicine into complementary cancer care

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Sagar, Stephen M. Hamilton, Ont.: Dreaming DragonFly Communications , 2001.

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Call Number: QZ266 S129 2001

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

Author: Sagar, Stephen M

Place of Publication: Hamilton, Ont.

Publisher: Dreaming DragonFly Communications

Publication Date: 2001

Subjects: Medicine, Chinese Traditional; Alternative Medicine; Psychoneuroimmunology; Neoplasms - therapy; Evidence-Based Medicine

ISBN: 0968948804

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: QZ266 S129 2001

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Fighting for a hand to hold : confronting medical colonialism against Indigenous children in Canada

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Shaheen-Hussain, Samir. Montreal, QC | Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press , 2020.

Audience: Professional

Call Number: WA320 S525 2020

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

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Author: Shaheen-Hussain, Samir

Place of Publication: Montreal, QC; Kingston, ON

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press

Publication Date: 2020

Physical Description: xxxi, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Series: Proquest Ebook Central; McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies

Subjects: Children; Health Services, Indigenous - history; Health Services, Indigenous - ethics; Indigenous Canadians; Systemic Racism; Colonialism - history; Canada

ISBN: 9780228003601; 9780228005131

Language: English

Material Type: Ebook; Book

Audience: Professional

Location: Internet; Vancouver Library

Call Number: WA320 S525 2020

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