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California Department of Health Services. Even the building itself represents a stark contrast to the individual, in-home, in-family health and spirituality beliefs and practices of the Hmong.
Credit Wikimedia Commons
This is Phillip Periman in Amarillo speaking about the HPPR Reader’s Book Club This spring we are reading Anne Fadiman’s non-fiction, narrative story of the cross-cultural conflict between western medicine and a Hmong family(the Lees) whose 3 month old daughter, Lia, has a seizure disorder which in their language is called
kow da pays which means The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Fadiman uses this as the title of her book.
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Since the late 19th Century through the present day, medical and cultural practices have been influenced by shamanism in many cultures. Depicted here is an Athapascan Hupa female shaman from northwest California.
Credit Edward R. Curtis, 1868 – 1952 from Library of Congress You are listening to the High Plains Public Radio Reader’s Book Club. My name is Freddy Gipp, I am an enrolled member of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, and my Indian name is T’san T’hoop Ah’n, meaning “Lead Horse”, in the Kiowa language, I graduated from the University of Kansas and head a small community development firm based in Lawrence, KS.