Andrews said this openness to incorporate Native American values and ties to the land is important. It also allows healing practices involving communal gatherings or plants to become more accepted ...

Why it matters: Native patients are likelier to trust traditional healing that's been used for ... In an example, providers ...

Even today, foreigners in a strange land struggling to understand a different language, can take comfort in saying the Catholic rosary or another bead-prayer method in their faith and native language.