A report from The Washington Free Beacon detailed that Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provided $422K for a Native American “healing circle” program.
The “healing circle” aims to treat diabetes through the “practice of communal songs, prayer, music, and dance.”
“Our ancestors promoted health and wellbeing through a healthy lifestyle, including consumption of a healthy diet, medicinal plant use for healing, and ceremonies,” the grant description reads, according to the outlet. “Sadly, spirituality and adherence to ceremonies, rituals, and beliefs encompass an aspect of our culture that has been oppressed and forgotten. The Healing Circle will reclaim these ways and educate all generations.”
Those who participate in the program can also take part in a “health lifestyle change program” led by a “certified fitness instructor trained by the Native American Fitness Council.”
American Faith previously reported that the White House released indigenous knowledge guidelines.
“Indigenous Knowledge is a body of observations, oral and written knowledge, innovations, practices, and beliefs developed by Tribes and Indigenous Peoples through interaction and experience with the environment,” the statement reads.
“The Biden-Harris Administration has formally recognized Indigenous Knowledge as one of the many important bodies of knowledge that contributes to the scientific, technical, social, and economic advancements of the United States and our collective understanding of the natural world,” it adds.
