We heal together: Our Land, Our Bodies with Dr. Nicole Redvers

Dr. Nicole Redvers creates a bridge between Indigenous and Western ways of thinking about health. Dr. Redvers reminds us that land-based practices are essential to our health wherever we are living: “By going on our healing journey, we’re automatically in healing with the land itself because we are in and of itself land.”

Dr. Nicole Redvers, ND, MPH, (she/hers) is an enrolled member of the Deninu K’ue First Nation from sub-Arctic Canada. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Family & Community Medicine and the Indians into Medicine program at the University of North Dakota’s School of Medicine & Health Sciences. She is co-founder and chair of the Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation based in the Canadian North which was awarded the $1 million-dollar 2017 Arctic Inspiration Prize for their work with the homeless and those most vulnerable. Dr. Redvers has been actively involved at the national and international level promoting the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives in planetary health while engaging in a breadth of scholarly projects attempting to bridge gaps between Indigenous and Western ways of knowing as it pertains to Indigenous health. She is the author of the trade paperback book titled, ‘The Science of the Sacred: Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles’. 

Resources:

Reads:

• Redvers, The Science of the Sacred: Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles, North Atlantic Books, 2019
• Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, HarperOne, 2020

Support the Yellowknife healing camp and similar initiatives here:

• https://arcticindigenouswellness.org/ 

Support the Mni Wichoni Clinic and Farm here:

• https://mniwichonihealthcircle.org/