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Sarah Vowell and her sister re-trace the route their Cherokee ancestors took when expelled from their own land. They reflect on their own American-ness and Cherokee-ness, and on the more difficult question: What's history good for, anyway?
After years of covering stories about medicine, NPR reporter Rebecca Perl enters the hospital as a patient. She moves from the world of healthy people into the world of sick ones. What she sees and what she learns.
Lissa Yellow Bird searches for missing people. Cold cases, mostly. People no one else is looking for. It’s not her job, but a lot of Native Americans go missing and their cases remain unsolved, so families often ask Lissa for help.
In the hospital, we give up our normal schedule and sleep patterns; we give up our normal food and clothing; we're in a place that has its own rules and its own language and its own customs. Stories about those delicate and sometimes not-so-delicate negotiations.
A doctor who breaks the law might go to jail like anybody else. But who decides if that doctor gets to keep their medical license? On today’s show, the not-often-talked-about realm of licensing boards, and the disturbing decisions they sometimes make.
A doctor named Benjamin Gilmer gets a job at a rural clinic in North Carolina. He’s replaced another doctor named Gilmer – Dr. Vince Gilmer – who went to prison after killing his own father. But the more Benjamin’s patients tell him about the other Dr. Gilmer, the more confused he becomes.
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John Berger and Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man -- one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when illness and the fear of death have made them unrecognizable to themselves.
Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present).
William Hensley was raised to live the seminomadic life that his Iñupiaq ancestors had lived for thousands of years. In this stirring memoir, he offers us a rare firsthand account of growing up Native Alaskan, and later, in the lower forty-eight, as a fearless advocate for Native land rights.
Physician - anthropologist Paul Farmer theorized a form of care centered on caregivers' responsibility to their patients that emphasized their ongoing practical and moral presence and commitment to keep treating patients over the course of an illness. Siamit faculty Arthur Kleinman explores the meaning and practice of accompaniment through the life and work of Farmer.
Recent years have seen the rise of historical trauma as a construct to describe the impact of colonization, cultural suppression, and historical oppression of Indigenous peoples in North America. Siamit faculty Joe Gone writes that this implicit analogy to the Holocaust is imperfect — and that the persistent suffering of Indigenous peoples in the Americas reflects not so much past trauma as ongoing structural violence.
In the 1950s, the United States came up with a plan to solve what it called the ‘Indian Problem’: It would assimilate Native Americans by moving them to cities and eliminating reservations. The 20-year campaign failed to erase Native Americans, but its effects on Indian Country are still felt today. A story and podcast from American Public Media.
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Dr. Donna May Kimmaliardjuk speaks to settler colonialism and the future of Inuit health through a doctor’s sort of analogy: parasitism and the immune response.
Physician Donald Warne investigates the impacts of colonial violence and historical trauma on health and care today.
Yvette Roubideaux speaks to the role of research in advancing American Indian and Alaska Native health policy.
Physician - anthropologist Paul Farmer delivers the 2021 Barnes Lecture at the Brown University School of Public Health.
Directed by Taika Waititi and set on the east coast of New Zealand in the year 1984, Boy, an 11-year-old kid and devout Michael Jackson fan gets a chance to know his father.
Joseph Gone speaks to the state and future of Indigenous community mental health services across Native America.