Native American culture

This program is part of on-going educational series on Indigenous traditional medicine practices on the Great Plains presented by the Intertribal Medicine Collective. Foci are healing traditions, traditional ecological knowledge, & cultural preservation efforts by today's Indigenous Peoples. In this teaching, Ziara Kyrie York will walk participants through a brief history of Native America, and relearn acts of radical self-love, agency, and healing through the reclamation of culture and tradition. Ziara Kyrie York is a descendant of Muscogee/Creek and Black Americans. She has studied culturally-rooted herbalist practices for five years. Her interest in Indigenous Medicinal practices led her to Native American and African American birth practices. She has studied these practices in the traditional manner, as observer and apprentice under internationally renowned and respected birth medicine-, birth practice knowledge keepers, and traditional midwives. Ziara has participated in numerous training and certification programs that have allowed her to blend Western medicine knowledge with a wide variety of Indigenous birthing practices. In all phases of her work she has looked to the ancestors, the historical antecedents of her practices, to inform her work.