This is a great article from The Conversation, a journal with academic rigour, showing the benefits of traditional storytelling in dealing with diabetes in First Nations’ communities.

Indigenous group tackles diabetes with storytelling

Like many Indigenous groups around the world, the James Bay Cree of northern Québec have a disproportionately high rate of diabetes. They’re facing it down with a decidedly Indigenous solution: A Talking Circle in print.

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