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Exhibit: "Native Voices: Native People's Concepts of Health and Illness" to be held at Cowles Library, Drake University from August 15th - September 25th, 2019. The exhibit is on the main floor on the West side of the building. There will also be associated programming occurring in September (see below). https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/ https://library.drake.edu/
An interactive exhibition that examines concepts of health and medicine among contemporary American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawai’ians and features interviews with more than one hundred tribal leaders, healers, physicians, educators, and others.
If you have any questions please ask either Claudia Frazer claudia.frazer@drake.edu or Priya Shenoy at priya.shenoy@drake.edu. Special thanks to the Slay Fund for Social Justice, the American Library Association Public Programs Office, and the U.S. National Library of Medicine for their funding and support.
Reading Room, Cowles Library, Drake University
Monday, September 16th, 2019 at 7:00 pm - Linda Black Elk, Ethnobotanist, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
5:30 - 6:30 pm - Lip balm workshop (Room 201) Linda Black Elk will host a hands-on workshop in which she will instruct participants on how to create a lip balm using traditional knowledge.
7:00 - 8:30 pm - Presentation (Reading Room)