title: Achieving balance: healing in native art.
abstract: It has been my great fortune to have spent this past summer traveling across North America with my husband. We left our home state of New Hampshire in June and, in late July, arrived in the 49th state, Alaska, where we have settled in for the winter. From Manitoulin Island and the shores of Lake Huron to the Black Hills of South Dakota and on through the Canadian Rockies, we traveled through a number of North American Native communities. It is this experience and my recent introduction to Alaskan Native culture and peoples that are the impetus for this feature, where I will explore the historical and re-emerging use of art to promote health and healing in Native communities.
authors: Franklin Pierce University, West Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.
authors: Lisa K
authors: LK
authors: Walker
mesh_terms: D000413:Alaska; D001154:Art; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology*; D004930:Inuit / Q000523:psychology*; D008519:Medicine, Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D019368:Nature