Odawa Cultural Practices to Treat Substance Addictions: A Tour of the Healing to Wellness Court
Leonard Mukosi
Volume 20, Number 1 (2020) 20 (1): 41-49
Keywords Addiction, Tribal Healing to Wellness Court, the right to health, Odawa tribe, Culture, traditional practices, International law, curative approach, incarceration, sobriety
Abstract
As the United States of America grapples with one of the worst addiction crisis of all time, the American Indian and Alaska Natives are reportedly the population affected most by drug and alcohol addiction.Notably, American Indians are championing recovery from addiction by integrating their unique cultural practices into the criminal justice system, yet, the nature and impact of Indigenous cultural interventions has not been a focus of much legal scholarly attention. This paper delineates the ethos and efficacy of Indigenous cultural interventions, as exemplified by the Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians Healing to Wellness Court (Waabshki-Miigwan as in the Odawa language Daawaamwin). The paper further argues that Indigenous cultural practices should also be incorporated into Western European-based biomedical practices to promote American Indians’ right to health.
Leonard Mukosi
Published June 1, 2020
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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