The Healing Properties of Navajo Ceremonies presented by Lori Arviso Alvord
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- The ASU Libraries proudly presents fall 2015 installment of The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community.
Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord’s lecture "The Healing Properties of Navajo Ceremonies,” took place on Thursday, Oct. 22, at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. Dr. Alvord spoke of the healing properties of ceremonies and the importance of the mind-body connection both to overall health and to the medical profession. She spoke about the benefits of chant, songs, prayer, and meditation to physical and mental health. Moving beyond individual health, Dr. Alvord also notes the connection between ceremonies and the health of the planet as a whole.
Raised in Crownpoint, New Mexico, Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, MD (Navajo) is a member the Tsinnajinnie (Ponderosa Pine) and Ashi’hii’ Dine’ (Salt) clans. She is the first Navajo woman to be board-certified in surgery. Her memoir, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear (Bantam, 1999), tells the story of her journey from the reservation to the operating room and of her work to combine Navajo philosophies of healing with western medicine.
Dr. Alvord is currently Chief of Surgical Services and a practicing general surgeon at Banner Health Page Hospital, in Page, Arizona. She also holds an appointment as Associate Faculty at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for American Indian Health.
The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community at Arizona State University addresses topics and issues across disciplines in the arts, humanities, sciences, and politics. Underscoring Indigenous American experiences and perspectives, this series seeks to create and celebrate knowledge that evolves from an inclusive Indigenous worldview and that is applicable to all walks of life.
Lecture by Dr. Lori Arviso
Date/Time: Thursday October 22, 2015, 7:00pm
Location: Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
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She asks a few times, why the white man culture doesn't follow the Native way since the beginning....as it actually goes along with all good modern science in the end....The reason "why" the white culture, has never seen the Nature as being "Sacred", is because they never have had the same respect for it..and are motivated mainly, sadly, only by greed ...money......so , they feel "respect"....is a joke.....and not needed...and can be done away with...like mining the Earth...destroying the Earth, to find uranium , to make big money making weapons of mas destruction, to blow up the EARTH with..OR to power up power plants to run big industries with...polluting water , land, air..... etc..... But , the fact is, ..."Respect", is key, core central, to the basic understanding of living in harmony with our selves (healing) and all Nature.. ALL Life , All Creation..."All healing , starts from within.."....a quote from Rolling Thunder , Medicine Man.....RT talked a lot about the lack of respect being the main reason that is the cause for all problems in the modern world, dominated by the white man, the cause of all poverty , sickness, wars, etc, and "war" , he said, "is the worst pollution man has ever created."....He was right...
Gettagrip u hypocrite...
Easley we lost that connection with food and water , our food is mostly chemical and our water is fluoridated a chloridsted,
This person operated on my left lung in Gallup New Mexico she was my surgeon in the 1980s.
Thanx Lori for you gift an insight.
Struggling with tones and dialects of the Dinè Language
I found you on UTube and I am so glad to hear your view on Navajo Traditional ceremony with your doctoral studies and practice. I am Navajo myself and raised by grandparents, uncles and father who were medicine man. I found your presentation very interesting and I also am a sand painter.
I'm teaching The Scalpel and the Silver Bear this year as a prelude to Silko's Ceremony. This talk has been very helpful to my students. Thank you.
They are mixture of Caucasian, Asians and Mexicans they are not Autocthtonous indigenous American they are from the Bering Strait. The so called African American are your Autocthtomois Indigemous of this land in America
This was so moving. Thank you for sharing so much of your culture.
I really enjoyed Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord's Lecture. It was a very interesting presentation. Thank you Dr. Alvord.
such an awesome and excellent teacher... SisStar... thank you so very much... a little more Hozho over here at our house this morning 🌅
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so . I'm learning Tibetan.. and Dinehotzi... I speak several European languages... to me Tibetan and Navajo sound very similar... and Navajo would work better as a written language using the Tibetan script
walk in beauty... go in Peace ✌️
I truly enjoyed this presentation. I can resignate with so many of the teachings. Thank you both for sharing ☺
Native Americans looks very very Asian. No doubt that they have Asian ancestry from thousands of years back and first Indigenes inhabitants came through West from Asia.
The Navajo disagree
@@latetodagame1892 I would like to talk about it. I am tremendous indigenous people lover & admire. Had privilege to work with few 100% native Americans and had female co-worker friend. Love them all. So much, I got badge: “Elizabeth Indian” (made for me because of this by someone who is maybe 50% related but according to story grandparents were 100% native). I wanted to specifically study Native American history in college but the classes were in the midd of the day and I was working student. Never had a chance. I think anthropologist determined that thousands of years ago the first settlers in current USA were people who came from the Asian continent through Alaska/Canada. Would love to hear from Indigenous Americans themselves the history of origin. I am fascinated with it. My childhood hero & ❤️ love was Cochise.
@@ElizabethKlimas well, relisted to this because she mentions it and I'll send you a link.
And don't worry about percents with me :)
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@@latetodagame1892 It's a fact... u ignore..
Thank you Dr. Alvord for this wonderful lecture. I loved it!
Thanks for sharing life's lessons!
Nice presentation Lori, my great grandfather was Jesus Arviso. Grand pa was charley Arviso
Outstanding talk !
Showing sacred sand painting
Kia Ora😇
Our beliefs are the same.
We bury our placenta, it is a source of life so back to papatuanuku - mother earth.
Our mountains are sacred also.
Before colonisation our medicine man - tohunga were of great importance, same level as the chief of that tribe.
We are high believers in Manaakitanga - which is giving, kindness, sharing, community. One word means many things.
in our healings, it is vital to remain present. We sing while the person is getting healed. As soon as we get emotional, we have invited what is being healed out and into ourselves.
I tend to focus on trees or listening to my environment to remove or stop the thinking.
I'm still learning, as I grew up Pakeha. Our language, our practises were beaten out of my grand parents but slowly I learn things from intuition and then find out the maori meaning to what I am doing.
Which to me, means it is my tupuna - ancestors giving me insights.
It is truly inspiring hearing other indigenous believes, protocols and they match up with ours.
Arohanui🥰
" we don't have secret spirit names..." Ah are you sure 😊
That's it? I thought I was going to learn something new. 😶
Religions are much like women, or you choose one and leave the others or you have to embrace them all🌹🐾🐻✨🦉🌙
Can you imagine government selling these lands ? Breaks my heart 💔
“Indians” ?
The term American Indian is still in use in the US.
There is so much wisdom in this, thank you for sharing this!💜🙏🏻☸️
Turquoise
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thank you , so witty! and true
Umm auugh... Your tone if voice is just not too!! Inviting... I'll hold off for a bit.