The Healers Project: Decolonizing Knowledge Within Afro-Indigenous Traditions, is a collaborative research project created by Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santos and Dr. Ana-Maurine Lara. They interviewed Caribbean and U.S. Pacific Northwest peoples that keep their...
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The Healers Project
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The Healers Project: Decolonizing Knowledge Within Afro-Indigenous Traditions, is a collaborative research project created by Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santos and Dr. Ana-Maurine Lara. They interviewed Caribbean and U.S. Pacific Northwest peoples that keep their Afro-Indigenous, Indigenous and Afro-descendant traditional healing practices and ecological knowledge alive, within a framework that validates their knowledge in a world where Eurocentric notions of health and medicine vilify and dismiss them. The people they interviewed expressed a collective investment in sharing their knowledge across generations at a time when colonization, displacement and migration disrupts the ways in which their communities have passed down knowledge. Interviews were conducted in Spanish and English, and transcribed and translated.
