Traditional Storytelling in the Digital Era
Janelle Palacios
Volume 11, Number 2 (2025) 11 (2): 41-56
Keywords Native, American Indian, Indigenous, Storytelling, Oral Traditions, Digital Storytelling, Health Care, Culture
Abstract
As a population, American Indian and Alaskan Native people have poorer overall health status when compared to other Americans. Due to a history of colonization and continued marginalization, a movement to bring forth traditional knowledge and practice, while reaffirming power over how a people are researched, has evoked a new orientation to researching wellness among indigenous people. The aim of this article is to situate the oral tradition of storytelling in the digital era as a research technique and intervention that can help Native and non-Native investigators meet American Indian health needs.
Janelle Palacios
Published August 13, 2025
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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