Post by Diane Merkel on May 3, 2007 12:40:25 GMT -6
In the film, Dr. Jim Upchurch, who works at the Indian Health Service hospital in Crow Agency, said health care providers who work in a place with the "cultural intensity" of the reservation have a responsibility to understand the important [sic] of their patients' beliefs and to participate in community activities.
"You don't learn Crow, you live Crow," Little Big Horn College registrar Robert Howe said.
The film, which is about a half-hour long, was shot on the sweeping vistas of the Crow Reservation, at the hospital and at Messengers for Health meetings.
It features interviews with tribal members, including Messengers chaplain Carol Whiteman. She is shown picking chokecherries and talking about traditional foods. She ends the video giving a traditional tobacco offering to the four directions while saying a prayer on a snow-dusted field.
Article: www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/05/03/news/state/30-health_v.txt