TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lefler,Lisa J.
TI  - Under the rattlesnake: Cherokee health and resiliency 
T2  - Contemporary American Indian studies
SN  - 9780817381585
AV  - RA448.5.I5 U523 2009eb
U1  - 610.89/97557 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Tuscaloosa
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Cherokee Indians
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Public health
KW  - Indians, North American
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Resilience, Psychological
KW  - Cherokee (Indiens)
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Indiens d'Amérique
KW  - Amérique du Nord
KW  - Santé publique
KW  - public health
KW  - aat
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Holism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Reference
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Alternative Medicine
KW  - Atlases
KW  - Essays
KW  - Family & General Practice
KW  - Holistic Medicine
KW  - Osteopathy
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-156) and index; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Tohi: The Cherokee Concept of Well-Being; 2. The Unintended Consequences of Prehistoric Skeletal Studies to Modern Cherokee Communities; 3. Adverse Reactions: Practicing Bioarchaeology among the Cherokee; 4. Historical Trauma, Stress, and Diabetes: A Modern Model among the Eastern Band of Cherokees; 5. The Effect of Traditional Dietary Practices on Contemporary Diseases among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; 6. The Sacred Feminine in Cherokee Culture: Healing and Identity; References; Contributors; Index
N2  - For the Cherokee, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. The natural state of the world is to be neutral, balanced, with a similarly gently flowing pattern. States of imbalance, tension, or agitation are indicative of physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual illness and whether caused intentionally through omission or commission, or by outside actions or influences, the result affects and endangers the collective Cherokee. Taking a true anthro
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