Answer to Question #303999 in History for lizi

Question

“Native Americans have been using traditional healing practices, or ways of healing, for centuries,” David R. Wilson, a member of the Navajo Nation and the director of the National Institutes of Health’s Tribal Health Research Office, said. “And it’s important to recognize those, but also complement those teachings and those understandings with some of the Western sciences and practices so that those two can synergize.” Do you agree with David R. Wilson?

Answer 1

Yes, I agree with him because the development of vaccines protecting oneself from a virus or disease by exposing oneself to a modified version of it was not lost on Native Americans. NIH also held a lecture on the interconnectedness of culture and science to help traditional medicine and Western science find new health breakthroughs.