and women’s traditions of healing and making art

Chia always goes to bed hungry and tired

He has lived through a time when Indians were sent to boarding schools and were not permitted to practice their own rituals

In between

Williamson (1835-1917)

Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing science and women’s traditions of healingPatrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in "Red Medicine" as an herbalist and traditional birth