So That the People May Live (Hecel Lena Oyate Ki Nipi Kte): Lakota and Dakota Elder Women as Reservoirs of Life and Keepers of Knowledge about Health Protection and Diabetes Prevention

摘要: Around the world, Type 2 diabetes is on rise, affecting adults and youth from societies in throes of industrialization. Over time, uncontrolled can leave its wake people facing renal failure, blindness, heart disease, communities daunted by new, chaotic phenomena. Westernized lifestyles are a recognized explanation for escalating prevalence. The web causation, however, may be broader thicker, woven complex interactions with environmental, sociological, historical roots. purpose this participatory ethnographic study was to document, understand, support Lakota Dakota elder women’s beliefs knowledge about health protection prevention. In-depth interviews were conducted nine women learn: (1) factors attributable diabetes, (2) related narratives addressing prevention, (3) how shared. elders saw as an outside, unnatural disorder, contributing influences which external well internal. They offered chaos, restitution, testimony, quests cures meaning. connected traditional values ways, land, memory. Reservoirs wisdom reside systems tribal who remember when unknown. Health leaders at local national levels would wise respect draw upon guidance program planning policy development.