Traditional Healers and Public Health Approaches to Fighting Poverty in North Dakota
Ashley Thornberg and Bill Thomas met with Dr. Donald Warne. The Oglala Lakota man comes from a long line of traditional healers. He’s Chair of the Department of Public health at NDSU. He studied at Stanford and Harvard, focusing much of his research on chronic health conditions, like diabetes. He’s also authored papers on historical trauma, the collective impact of mass trauma, like genocide. The consequences of historical trauma can last for generations.