Chief Davis of Louisiana[/caption]Carol Forsloff---One of the valuable lessons from Native Americans are the stories, which they believe helps maintain culture and promotes healing, something which other groups could use for binding people in good ways to traditions, beliefs, experiences and good relationships.
What are healing stories? These are stories that build new memories, memories of good things in the midst of painful memories. For example, the Native American has suffered for many, many decades first the loss of lands, life and health during the period of American expansion and later the poverty, drugs, and human trafficking that has continued to undermine the culture and the bonding the native cultures consider important.
They honor and respect traditions, the circle of life and peaceful harmony with nature and all living things. Through their oral stories these traditions are promoted.
On the national site for the Native Americans, these healing stories are emphasized. Many people don't even know they are there, but they are written to uplift, to promote a new and revitalized view of Native American culture, that reflects their wisdom, sharing, crafts, and ideas that help children look at themselves with the eyes of pride as opposed to having feelings of shame.
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