Respecting Indigenous Healing Ways: from Colonizer to Ally

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The Indigenous worldview of interconnection has often led to non-Natives mistaking the generous sharing of knowledge with implied approval to take and (mis)use culture-specific customs. The willingness to accept Indigenous protocols is a critical first step to healing and transforming our communities, as is having the courage to learn to unlearn unconscious colonial behaviors that harm Native Peoples. Becoming a solid ally, you enter into a respectful relationship with the Original Peoples of Turtle Island.

OBJECTIVES

• Describe how colonial laws, manifest destiny, and religious persecution affected, and continues to affect Native communities.
• Identify 2 methods and practices that non-Native healers are using that originate within Native and Indigenous tribal communities.
• List 3 different ways that non-Native persons and organizations can begin to decolonize their policies and/or clinical, healing, shamanic practice.