Della keats biography samples

Help us redesign the Project Jukebox website by taking a very short survey! She was trained at an early age in midwifery, and developing an interest in anatomy and traditional medicine. Her methods included a combination of physical manipulations and plant-based natural remedies from the land. In her later years, Della helped create the Tribal Doctor Program at Maniilaq Association in Kotzebue, where she traveled to villages throughout northwestern Alaska as a tribal doctor and trained young people in the art of traditional healing.

Della was well known as a traditional healer throughout Alaska and received numerous honors and awards for her work. So I did. And after I work on 'em not too long, this young fellow, the youngest one. I'm getting good now. I'm getting good. Off and on, I used to go to hospital and it's hurt. And right now, it doesn't hurt no more. I'm discharged from the hospital.

And he never even ever go back to hospital. Even the doctors told me. That young fellow what I worked never come back. He used to come off and on to the hospital for his back. And ever since, he never go to the hospital no more. He healed up. What kind of people were they? They were there. No, these teachers were the missionaries. Same time talking to people same time.

And later on, after eight years of missionaries came. Two of them. And I was born After I -- after I was born, after I was six years old. When I'm six years old, I go to school. Is that a Quaker school? The teachers taking care of the medicine whenever the people get sick. I don't know when he -- the teacher, this teacher, a man giving it out the medicine for the people that's sick.

I don't know. I won't tell. I don't know, 'cause How do you feel about those? Not, you know, just like a lump or that make a lump inside itself out of intestine. Grow itself there. It -- it doesn't help too quick or right, but help sometimes. And when they have a stomach problem from intestines or stomach or large intestine, you know, it helps to the boil even.

And for pneumonia it's really good. I got pneumonia myself and I drink half a glass three times a day just like you having a pill. By the time. I watch the time and drink half a glass of stinkweed. That's the only things. I have medicine, cough medicine from doctors doesn't help. But when I start drinking with stinkweed, by the time, every four hours, I start getting good.

And it's really good for TB. I know before that -- long time ago, I have one lady that was having a TB. Spitting, you know, all the time. And I boiled stinkweed. Getting strong. And by the time every -- every three hours, four times a day, I give 'em one tablespoon a day. I mean every -- every three hours in a day. Every three hours, four times a day.

I stayed down in Kotzebue and tried to help her. Tried to -- people was telling me that I will catch from her. But I never scared. I never scared nothing. I stayed with them and help her. And she get good, and she get up from the bed. Could do something. And when she -- the last time -- she began to drink back again. She died from that.

She started back and she start liquor. They not taking care of herself anymore. She died from it. Not really old.

Della keats biography samples

What kind of a family -- do they have an agreement? Long time ago, they used to have family handling the one they lost themselves. And right now, everybody tried to help these people. The one that lost their loved ones. Right now, it's better. And a lot of people -- a lot of men have to dig and making a box for them until they buried. Right now. I have the oldest one and the next one.

I have with no -- no midwife. Just my sister-in-law. But these two, the midwives helping me. There're still midwives. I could help anytime, too. When people going to have a -- woman going to have a baby, I could help. I used to tell them. I used to tell them to use this and that, but not too much. They get overdose. One lady almost get overdosed, 'cause she -- she really want to get good right away.

And she have one gallon a day. That's too much. The Della Keats Healing Hands Award is bestowed upon a tribal healer or health care provider and announced at the annual Alaska Federation of Natives that convenes in October each year. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.

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