INDIGENOUS HEALING PRACTICES: WHAT IS BLOCKING THE WAY?

Understanding the history of how Indigenous healing has changed over the course of time is important for educating people going forward. The pages in this section outline the Indigenous constructs of health and wellbeing, the role of Indigenous healers in history, the impact of colonialism on the health of the population, and investigates how this is a global issue through highlighting the common links between a  number of Indigenous histories including those in the Maori, Australian Aboriginal and Native American Indian contexts.