HIST209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dental Caries, Biomedicine, Midewiwin
3 Aug 2016
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Cedar: in tea, vitamin c, protects from scurvy, stomach ache, helps protect during vision quest. Tobacco: offering to show intention, used in trade. Sage: in tea, grows in hotter climates, herbal remedy, healing properties, releases negative energy. Sweet grass: especially in smudging, 3 strands represent love, kindness, honesty, healing properties, attracts good spirit, so used to call it + in talking circle. Respiratory ailments from all the smoke, tobacco. Tularemia severe infectious disease transferrable from animals to humans, characterized by ulcers. Rickets vitamin d deficiency; ex. from lack of sun. Dental caries (cavities) developed by too much maize plant because of simple sugars; dangerous because it can lead to severe blood poisoning. Sti and tb transmission huge case when columbus and his boys came (from europe) because they were sexually active with the aboriginal women. Adapted hunting practices to available fish, fowl, and mammals on a seasonal basis.
