Della Keats, an Iñupiaq from Kotzebue, Alaska, is a traditional healer, locally called a doctor. Born ...

The territorial legislature authorizes a Hawaiian Medicine Board to license Native Hawaiian herbalists, ...

In Juneau, the Territory of Alaska's Bureau of Education opens the first hospital specifically for Alaska ...

While the Hawaiian monarchs swung back and forth between restricting Native healers, known as kahuna , ...

Catholic missionaries from Canada, the Sisters of Providence, establish the Holy Cross Hospital in Nome, ...

Henry Crow Dog II will become a traditional medicine man of the Lakota. Despite the individual land- ...

The U.S. annexes Hawai‘i and seizes royal and government lands. Launching aggressive assimilation policies, ...

James R. Walker, the agency physician assigned to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, finds ...

The Omaha healer Susan La Flesch (later Picotte) graduates from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. ...

The Yavapai doctor Carlos Montezuma (who was named Wassaja, “gathering” or “beckoning,” at birth) graduates ...