RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Circle of Healing: Traditional Storytelling, Part Three
JF Arctic Anthropology
JO Arctic Anthropol
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 19
OP 22
DO 10.1353/arc.2011.0096
VO 40
IS 2
A1 Dolchok, Lisa
YR 2003
UL http://aa.uwpress.org/content/40/2/19.abstract
AB Introduction. Southcentral Foundation had to overcome several organizational and procedural hurdles when developing their Circle of Healing program. Among these hurdles was finding a way to credential Alaska Native healers so the Foundation could be reimbursed for their services and pay the healers, and so the healers could work in the hospital along with the staff delivering Western and alternative medical treatment. Southcentral Foundation chose to develop a process for certifying Alaska Native healers as tribal doctors. Rita Blumenstein is the first such person to be certified. Lisa Dolchok is the second. An important strength of Lisa’s presentation is that she helps us broaden our understanding of healing from an Alaska Native perspective. So often we equate healing with curing, and while it can have this dimension, Lisa reminds us there is much more to it. She echoes LouAnn Benson’s presentation in asserting that healing can address illness of the spirit or wounds to the soul. WHA↵Lisa Dolchok, Southcentral Foundation, 9131 Centennial Drive Suite 302, Anchorage, Alaska 99504