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Our Stories, Our Medicine Archive is a community-based, community-owned interactive digital archive that documents and preserves traditional and emerging Indigenous health and cultural knowledge. This archive emerges from a call from community members to address health challenges through documenting, amplifying, and making accessible the many remedies, practices, and creative strategies that are helping people get and stay well. It is both a research project and an archive development project that seeks to leverage digital technologies toward combatting chronic diseases and colonial disruptions to cultural knowledge.
Archive: the archive contains clips and segments from in-depth oral histories of Native American and Indigenous Latinx community members living in urban settings.
Research: Using a ceremony-based participatory and practice method (Beltrán, et. al, 2024), we created an interview process that centers on witnessing (deep listening and reflection) and reflexive engagement with our community members in a way that represents processes similar to talking circles or platicas ceremoniales (ceremonial dialogues). To date, we have completed 53 in-depth oral histories and are conducting analyses across the interviews to illuminate some of the culturally-specific solutions and strategies embedded within cultural and tribal communities.
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