Storytelling and health as experienced by Native Americans led by Dr.
Gary Cheeseman, Wednesday, September 4, 7 – 9 p.m., Farber Hall.
Gary Cheeseman, Ed.D., (Maajiiange) will tell a personal story about his own experiences with mental health issues as they exist in the Native American population. For about nine years Cheeseman operated one of only two American Indian therapeutic foster group homes in the state of Minnesota where he used traditional teachings and cosmologies to assist native youth in using spirituality to heal. Cheeseman has spent the past 27 years in higher education educating people about American Indians and Indigenous belief.
This is part 2 of a 4-part Native Voices Lecture and Discussion Series coinciding with the "Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness" exhibition, produced by the National Library of Medicine, on display on the 2nd floor of the I.D. Weeks Library until Sept. 25. To learn more and view content from the exhibition, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices
