The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 17: Indigenous Badassery

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The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 17: Indigenous Badassery

S03E17: It’s National Native American Heritage Month, so we’re talking about stone cold badass Madame Marie Dorion, and the many ways in which Native and Indigenous Americans have contributed to medicine and public health, from baby bottles, to pain killers, to early syringes!

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Show Notes:

Here are links to the sources and resources we used while researching this episode:

Links to research materials: 

Madame Marie Dorion:

•  Krasnesky Manor for Wayward Cats: general obsession and TREASURE: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076974185503
• Métis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9tis#M%C3%A9tis_people_in_Canada 
• Marie Aioe Dorion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Aioe_Dorion 
• Marie Dorion: The Most Badass Woman in Oregon History: https://thatoregonlife.com/2021/09/marie-dorion-oregon-history/ 
• Marie Dorion: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/marie-dorion.htm

Native American contributions that highly impacted medicine and public health:

• Parker on the Iroquois by Arthur C. Parker https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1606321.Parker_on_the_Iroquois?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ZGbBqEE0p0&rank=1
• Technology in America by Alan Marucs and Howard Segal https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/738976.Technology_in_America?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=lXktKmWZj1&rank=1
• American Journal of Clinical Nutrition article: Inflammation and Native American Medicine: the role of botanicals: https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/72/2/339/4729391
• Soma Technology: Native American Inventions That Revolutionaized Medicine: https://www.somatechnology.com/blog/fun-fact-friday/native-american-inventions-that-revolutionized-medicine/
• History Chanel article: https://www.history.com/news/native-american-inventions#section_11
• Forbes Article https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicolefisher/2020/11/29/7-native-american-inventions-that-revolutionized-medicine-and-public-health/?sh=21b840a01e73

Further Reading:

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