Blog: Articles, Poems and Musings

Aug 204 min read

What Is A Pipe Ceremony?

Aug 23 min read

Is Osteopathic Medicine Based On Shawnee Medicine?

Dec 10, 20222 min read

A Closer Look At Indigenous Science: Culture, Context, and Euro-Science's Hidden Assumptions

Mar 5, 20223 min read

Circles Within Circles: The Cree Medicine Man, Fine Day

Dec 14, 20212 min read

License to Heal? Hands-Off!

Feb 25, 20213 min read

Lucid Dreaming: Science Scratches the Surface

Apr 27, 202017 min read

The Story of the Disease: An Indigenous Perspective on COVID-19

Jul 6, 20191 min read

Gratitude to the Four Winds

May 24, 20192 min read

Seven Reasons Why Shamanism is Different from Native American/ First Nations Spirituality

Apr 4, 20188 min read

De-colonize Your Medicine! Attempts to Regulate Native American/First Nations Healing Practices

Jan 5, 20184 min read

Etiology in a World of "All My Relations"

Oct 8, 20133 min read

What's In A Name?

Apr 11, 20133 min read

Ancient American-Polynesian Connections

Apr 24, 20122 min read

Scientists Tell Kumeyaay: Su Casa Es Mi Casa

Dec 1, 201111 min read

Remembering the Future: Tom Heidlebaugh & the Rebirth of the Great Canoes

Sep 22, 20112 min read

How will you celebrate Columbus Day?

Sep 20, 20117 min read

Praying with the Geese

May 7, 20113 min read

Perspectives on Geronimo and the Persistence of Stereotypes

Dec 1, 20104 min read

Not Again! "Please Be My Medicine Man"

I often find myself in strange circumstances when non-Native people perceive me as a potential ally in their quest to misrepresent,...

May 18, 20095 min read

Honoring the Medicine

Native American & First Nations Health and Cultural Education

Teachings & Offerings by Ken Cohen