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Indigenous Medicine Stories Podcast is a collaboration between AMS Healthcare and the Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Indigenous Health and Indigenous Traditional Medicine at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University. Indigenous Medicine Stories aims to educate health professionals and the public about Indigenous healing. The podcast will highlight the lived experiences of Indigenous Knowledge holders, healers, and Elders and help professionals who practice Indigenous healing. Since time immemorial, Indigenous Peoples held a knowledge system of wellness, healing, and medicine....

Brutally frank but buoyed throughout by McLeod’s unquenchable spirit, Peyakow - a title borrowed from the Cree word for “one who walks alone” - is an inspiring account of triumph against unimaginable odds. McLeod’s perspective as someone whose career path has crossed both sides of the Indigenous/White chasm resonates with particular force in today’s Canada.

Growing up in the tiny village of Smith, Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod was surrounded by his Cree family's history. In shifting and unpredictable stories, his mother, Bertha, shared narratives of their culture, their family, and the cruelty that she and her sisters endured in residential school. Bertha taught him to be fiercely proud of his heritage and to listen to the birds that would return to watch over and guide him at key junctures of his life. However, in a spiral of events, Darrel's mother turned wild and unstable, and their home life became chaotic.

For thousands of years, religion has woven its way through societies and people as if it were part and parcel to that society or person. In large measure it was left unexplained and unchallenged, it simply existed. Those who attempted to challenge and expose religion were often persecuted, excommunicated, shunned, or even executed. It could be fatal to explain that which the church, priest, or imam said was unexplainable. Before the germ, viral, and parasite theory of disease, physicians had no tools to understand disease and its propagation.

Why are all the major religions consumed with sex? What makes sex so important, whether Buddhism or Islam, Christianity or Mormonism? What is the impact of religion on human sexuality? This book explores this and more. It ventures into territory that has never been examined. You will be surprised at how much religion has influenced your sexuality, who you marry, the pleasure you get or don't get from sex, and what you can do about it.

The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church. This book provides a model for how faithful Christians can hold opposing views on deeply divisive issues yet grow deeper in their relationship to each other and to God.

In 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam. Air power covered the departure of ground forces, and search and rescue teams from all services and Air America covered the airmen and soldiers still in the fight. Day and night these military and civilian aircrews stood alert to respond to "Mayday" calls. The rescue forces were the answer to every man's prayer, and those forces brought home airmen, sailors, marines, and soldiers downed or trapped across the breadth and depth of the entire Southeast Asia theater.

Depending on where you live, becoming a millionaire is the standard for being comfortable and wealthy. It is feasible to amass this level of money. It does, however, necessitate a strong dedication, hard work, deferred gratification, and a rich mind-set. If you want to succeed, you must develop a millionaire mindset and thinking. This can be achieved by changing one's way of thinking and acting. You will have to go against the grain and society's standards.

This is book 5 in the hugely successful Jack Russell: Dog Detective series. What terrier-ible thing has happened to the dogs of Doggeroo? They're missing! Then Jack finds them hiding under beds. But why? Can Jack sniff out the solution?

Acclaimed South African writer Darrel Bristow-Bovey has a deeply personal relationship with the story of Endurance and in this lyrical, loving journey into past and present, into humanity and the natural world, above and below the Antarctic ice, he revisits the famous story from a contemporary perspective, wondering why it seems to mean more today than ever before, and exploring our changing relationship with ourselves and the ice, and with our shared story of survival.

A show about navigating higher education’s hidden curriculum as a first-generation scholar of color.

The Community Safety Web Podcast is about creating safe communities through collaboration between the police, private security, criminologists, and the public to develop and evaluate evidence-based policy to guide safety decisions.

Ever wondered why Americans are obsessed with peanut butter? Or how the hamburger became a national icon? ”America’s Eats” is your passport to the fascinating world of American food history. Join us as we uncover the surprising stories behind your favorite dishes, exploring their cultural significance, regional variations, and the quirky characters who shaped their destiny. From classic comfort foods to modern culinary trends, ”America’s Eats” will leave you hungry for more!

Years of your life are passing by and it all seems like a failure on paper. So you hesitate one day and remember you're not happy actually. What has gone wrong? There is a decent shot you never realized how to hear yourself out yet wrongly confused with the genuine. These people talk quite well, recount to their accounts and motivate others. However, it is regularly more critical to be a decent audience than talk.

Communication can be positive or negative, powerful, or ineffectual. It is significant for parents to have the option to convey straightforwardly and successfully with their kids. Open, compelling communication benefits the children, however every individual from the family gains from it, too. Connections among parent and their children are significantly improved when compelling communication occurs. As a rule, if the communication between parents and their kids is great, then, at that point, their connections are great, too.

A novel about a high-fashion model and an ex who wants to see her ruined. Murder comes easy to him once he gets a taste of it. Shaya will be busy trying to stay alive in between shows.

A small team of archeologists embark on a mission much the same as they have done many times before. The only thing different about this expedition is that it is a matter of life or death. One member, leader John Larson, is dying. He has one chance at a cure and one chance to save two worlds. He must make all the right decisions.

They called it "The Fall" - the total collapse of the United States and the American way of life. Within 12 months, 80 percent of the population is gone. After a time, even the military stops trying to cope and pulls back to the coasts, leaving the interior, from the Alleghenies to the Rockies, on its own. Now, the remnant of Americans left in the depopulated cities and the wilderness that used to be the breadbasket of the world are becoming increasingly desperate, doing anything it takes to survive.

Time is a luxury in today's busy lifestyle. These short stories will give you the thrill and chill in short order. Just a few chapters and you are on to the next story. These stories will give you the excitement of a full-size novel that fits into any busy schedule.

One murdered girl. One unknown killer. One legendary lawman. A lone man sits his horse atop a bluff near the southern Missouri border. There's a story in the country ahead of him. A dark tale of murdered girls and a killer not caught, of an old friend asking for help, and a letter from a frightened young mother that has arrived too late to save her daughter. A letter that now rests in this man's pocket.....