Leslie Main Johnson is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Athabasca University. She is an ethnographer and ethnobiologist who has worked with Indigenous peoples in northwestern Canada since the 1980s. Earle H. Waugh is Professor Emeritus and was Director of the Centre for the Centre for Health and Culture in the Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton upon his retirement.

"These crucial studies provide a base of evidence for how people want to live rather than being dictated to by industrial interests in their homelands. They provide a rich vision of a lived environment."

• Acknowledgements xii Contexts and Holistic Approaches to Northern Community Well-Being1 Traditional Knowledge, Healing, and Wellness An Introduction // Leslie Main Johnson2 Making and Taking Medicine Indigenous and Western Therapeutics in an Early Contact EasternMackenzie Delta Society, 1858–1920 // Walter Vanast3 Illness and Power in Times of Contact Gitxsan and Witsuwit’en Narratives of Healing // Leslie Main Johnson4 “Our Food Is Our Medicine” Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Plant Foods for Health and Well-Beingin the Canadian North and Alaska // Nancy J. Turner5 Cranberries Are Medicine Monitoring, Sharing, and Consuming Cranberries in Fort McKay // Janelle Marie Baker and the Fort McKay Berry Group6 Huckleberries, Food Sovereignty, Cumulative Impact, and Community HealthReflections from Northern British Columbia, Canada // Leslie Main Johnson, Darlene Vegh, and Ruby E. Morgan7 Conditions for Well-Being Sustainatibily of an Inuit Subsistence System in a Globalized World // Keiichi Omura8 Inuvialuit Nautchiangit, Relationships between People and Plants A Project to Document Traditional Plant Knowledge // Inuvialuit Regional Corporation9 Community Context, Research Methods, and Cultural Ethics in the Plants for Life Project, Délı̨ne // Christopher Fletcher10 Life Transformation and Volunteerism in Teetł’itZhehPathway to Community Well-Being // Thea Luigii Northern Community Voices on Wellness11 Sip’xw Hligetdin Demonstrating the Strength, Education, Readiness, and Responsibility to Speak in the Feasthall // Art Mathews, Sim’oogit T’enim Gyet12 Seaweed Harvesting and My Uncle’s Stories // Della M. Cheney, Stakawas, Katsawa13 Life at Moose Lake Traditional Life in Fort McKay Territory and the Impacts of Oil Sands Mining // Celina Harpe-Cooper14 Health Is Living Well According to Kaska ValuesKaska Women’s Words // Linda G. McDonald and Mida Donnessey15 Wisdom for Well-BeingGwich’in Elders’ Teachings // Mary Teya, Annie B. Gordon, Mabel English, and Alestine Andre16 Healing and Spiritual Knowledge of Délı̨ne and Plants for Life // Morris Neyelle and Bernice Neyelle17 Words of a Traditional Healer from Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories // Robert Beaulieu18 Pathways and Choices Concluding Words // Leslie Main JohnsonContributors

Leslie Main Johnson is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Athabasca University. She is an ethnographer and ethnobiologist who has worked with Indigenous peoples in northwestern Canada since the 1980s. Earle H. Waugh is Professor Emeritus and was Director of the Centre for the Centre for Health and Culture in the Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton upon his retirement.

"These crucial studies provide a base of evidence for how people want to live rather than being dictated to by industrial interests in their homelands. They provide a rich vision of a lived environment."

• Acknowledgements xii Contexts and Holistic Approaches to Northern Community Well-Being1 Traditional Knowledge, Healing, and Wellness An Introduction // Leslie Main Johnson2 Making and Taking Medicine Indigenous and Western Therapeutics in an Early Contact EasternMackenzie Delta Society, 1858–1920 // Walter Vanast3 Illness and Power in Times of Contact Gitxsan and Witsuwit’en Narratives of Healing // Leslie Main Johnson4 “Our Food Is Our Medicine” Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Plant Foods for Health and Well-Beingin the Canadian North and Alaska // Nancy J. Turner5 Cranberries Are Medicine Monitoring, Sharing, and Consuming Cranberries in Fort McKay // Janelle Marie Baker and the Fort McKay Berry Group6 Huckleberries, Food Sovereignty, Cumulative Impact, and Community HealthReflections from Northern British Columbia, Canada // Leslie Main Johnson, Darlene Vegh, and Ruby E. Morgan7 Conditions for Well-Being Sustainatibily of an Inuit Subsistence System in a Globalized World // Keiichi Omura8 Inuvialuit Nautchiangit, Relationships between People and Plants A Project to Document Traditional Plant Knowledge // Inuvialuit Regional Corporation9 Community Context, Research Methods, and Cultural Ethics in the Plants for Life Project, Délı̨ne // Christopher Fletcher10 Life Transformation and Volunteerism in Teetł’itZhehPathway to Community Well-Being // Thea Luigii Northern Community Voices on Wellness11 Sip’xw Hligetdin Demonstrating the Strength, Education, Readiness, and Responsibility to Speak in the Feasthall // Art Mathews, Sim’oogit T’enim Gyet12 Seaweed Harvesting and My Uncle’s Stories // Della M. Cheney, Stakawas, Katsawa13 Life at Moose Lake Traditional Life in Fort McKay Territory and the Impacts of Oil Sands Mining // Celina Harpe-Cooper14 Health Is Living Well According to Kaska ValuesKaska Women’s Words // Linda G. McDonald and Mida Donnessey15 Wisdom for Well-BeingGwich’in Elders’ Teachings // Mary Teya, Annie B. Gordon, Mabel English, and Alestine Andre16 Healing and Spiritual Knowledge of Délı̨ne and Plants for Life // Morris Neyelle and Bernice Neyelle17 Words of a Traditional Healer from Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories // Robert Beaulieu18 Pathways and Choices Concluding Words // Leslie Main JohnsonContributors

Leslie Main Johnson is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Athabasca University. She is an ethnographer and ethnobiologist who has worked with Indigenous peoples in northwestern Canada since the 1980s. Earle H. Waugh is Professor Emeritus and was Director of the Centre for the Centre for Health and Culture in the Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton upon his retirement.

"These crucial studies provide a base of evidence for how people want to live rather than being dictated to by industrial interests in their homelands. They provide a rich vision of a lived environment."

• Acknowledgements xii Contexts and Holistic Approaches to Northern Community Well-Being1 Traditional Knowledge, Healing, and Wellness An Introduction // Leslie Main Johnson2 Making and Taking Medicine Indigenous and Western Therapeutics in an Early Contact EasternMackenzie Delta Society, 1858–1920 // Walter Vanast3 Illness and Power in Times of Contact Gitxsan and Witsuwit’en Narratives of Healing // Leslie Main Johnson4 “Our Food Is Our Medicine” Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Plant Foods for Health and Well-Beingin the Canadian North and Alaska // Nancy J. Turner5 Cranberries Are Medicine Monitoring, Sharing, and Consuming Cranberries in Fort McKay // Janelle Marie Baker and the Fort McKay Berry Group6 Huckleberries, Food Sovereignty, Cumulative Impact, and Community HealthReflections from Northern British Columbia, Canada // Leslie Main Johnson, Darlene Vegh, and Ruby E. Morgan7 Conditions for Well-Being Sustainatibily of an Inuit Subsistence System in a Globalized World // Keiichi Omura8 Inuvialuit Nautchiangit, Relationships between People and Plants A Project to Document Traditional Plant Knowledge // Inuvialuit Regional Corporation9 Community Context, Research Methods, and Cultural Ethics in the Plants for Life Project, Délı̨ne // Christopher Fletcher10 Life Transformation and Volunteerism in Teetł’itZhehPathway to Community Well-Being // Thea Luigii Northern Community Voices on Wellness11 Sip’xw Hligetdin Demonstrating the Strength, Education, Readiness, and Responsibility to Speak in the Feasthall // Art Mathews, Sim’oogit T’enim Gyet12 Seaweed Harvesting and My Uncle’s Stories // Della M. Cheney, Stakawas, Katsawa13 Life at Moose Lake Traditional Life in Fort McKay Territory and the Impacts of Oil Sands Mining // Celina Harpe-Cooper14 Health Is Living Well According to Kaska ValuesKaska Women’s Words // Linda G. McDonald and Mida Donnessey15 Wisdom for Well-BeingGwich’in Elders’ Teachings // Mary Teya, Annie B. Gordon, Mabel English, and Alestine Andre16 Healing and Spiritual Knowledge of Délı̨ne and Plants for Life // Morris Neyelle and Bernice Neyelle17 Words of a Traditional Healer from Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories // Robert Beaulieu18 Pathways and Choices Concluding Words // Leslie Main JohnsonContributors