Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
I just arrived back in Miami from South East Asia .. the drastic change (food and people ) is softened by the fact that Miami is as tropical spot, one…
I have just left Havana, Cuba after a few very special days with my best friends in Miami. It was delightful, everything went smoothly, considering the impact of the hardship…
9 South Korean Nursing Students from Pusan, South Korea spent two days with us and many days with other members of the Health Department of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE YOGA AND NUTRITION: PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELLING AMONG NATIVE INDIANS OF AMERICAS Yoga Sutra 1.15 of Patanjali states: Disinterestedness is the consciousness of the…
It was good to get together with my KL friends, MunChingYong and her husband Fernando and Abid Hussain of Creative Stew. We ate at a Banana Leaf Restaurant called Ravi,…
Interview with two Native American Indians visiting Malaysia for the first time I had the pleasure of accompanying a young Native American Indian couple of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska,…
One of the great pleasures of working with Indians is the pleasant encounter one can expect from the patients. Two things was taught me from the beginning: Always make sure…
A Day of Healing at a Clinic for Native Americans Barely thirty, JWE, now sits in front of you, a wasted life, his limbs a metaphor for that waste. Bites…
I have been very fortunate to be associated with the Native peoples of the USA which is often referred to as Turtle Island. During my conversations with knowledgeable elders, they…
I am happy to have come to the USA for my post graduate studies in Endocrinology (excellent clinical education at Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami) but even…
Today has been a good day.. Was it the Ozone therapy that I received over the weekend or the wonderful meals? of the pleasure of talking to an Indian Elder?…
I had the opportunity to work with a Native Psychologist from the University of South Dakota in the USA and one day he invited me to come to Vermillion where…
I have been fortunate to get to know some Native people who are caught in the web of acculturation and their intense desire to maintain their culture. So happy was…
I have worked with Indigenous people in many parts of the world but Indians of North America are especially closer to my heart. I have gotten to know them better,…
This is a quite an impressive book. There is a six part series of a BBC documentary that goes with it. Lots of research has gone into unearthing the history…
I will never forget the words of the elder, Adeline W. Here we were sitting at her modest home in the settlement of Indians out of the bling and business…
Supreme Court rules much of Eastern Oklahoma is tribal land Landmark case upholds claim by Muscogee Nation the territory, now home to 1.8 million people, is Native American land. The…
I have been thinking of Leticia on the Colombian Amazon, bordering with Tabatinga in Brasil as well as across the stream from Santa Rosa in Peru. I really want to…
