Global Indigenous Health: Reconciling the Past, Engaging the Present, Animating the Future culture on our relationship to the

on our relationship to the animal world

clear freshwater streams and the tents the people slept in

from one another

the symbolic stories of contemporary Natives

But the other world—modern

Global Indigenous Health: Reconciling the Past, Engaging the Present, Animating the Future culture on our relationship to theIndigenous peoples globally have a keen understanding of their health and wellness through traditional knowledge systems. In the past, traditional understandings of health often intersected with individual, community, and environmental relationships of well being, creating an equilibrium of living well. However, colonization and the imposition of colonial policies regarding health, justice, and the environment have dramatically impacted Indigenous