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Books by Rudolph C Ryser

Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments

What they say: The book offers long needed integrative and preventative approaches to diabetes. ... more What they say:

The book offers long needed integrative and preventative approaches to diabetes. Above all it is deeply empowering for anyone suffering from diabetes or caring for those affected by this dreadful disease. It makes people realize that they can take their health and thus their life into their own hands.
The insights shared clearly show the intricate relationships between place, culture, health, and people. It reminds us of the importance of traditional knowledge and lifestyles for life quality and health. The cutting edge analysis changes the way we generally look at the disease and shifts our focus to a holistic perspective that considers many factors comprising the individual as well as community level and which contribute to the widespread development of diabetes. A true eye opener. - M. Hirch, Germany.

Leslie E. Korn, PhD, MPH and Rudolph C. Ryser, PhD have collaborated in this informative approach to integrating traditional medicine with complementary/alternative medicine, and integrative medicine.

The authors include a comprehensive discussion with practical guidelines for improving nutrition and diet as they relate to diabetes and its effect on functions of neuropathy, cardiovascular illness, stress, trauma, pain, and depression. The opening chapters deal with the culture and principles of traditional healing and diabetes and nutritional supplements and healing routines. The material dealing with medicinal foods and plant medicines identifies the relationships between plants and their use as medicines.

The practical discussion and hands-on how to steps on energy medicine and polarity therapy protocol was extremely interesting. The accompanying photographs and detailed descriptions are an excellent source for personal application and for anyone involved in polarity therapy.

Worksheets provided with each chapter include objectives of the chapter and suggested exercises for implementation, application and assimilation. I found these helpful. They are easily adaptable to a support group or for use in a classroom situation.

The glossary, compete index, comprehensive references and resource list add to the value of the book as a tool for review and further reading and future study.

"Preventing & Treating Diabetes Naturally: The Native Way" is an important book for anyone ready to implement some lifestyle changes and willing to consider alternatives to traditional medical treatment. The book is highly informative, with practical step by step guidelines to improving personal health and well being. - R. Blake, USA

Indigenous nations are on the frontline of the current climate crisis. With cultures and economie... more Indigenous nations are on the frontline of the current climate crisis. With cultures and economies among the most vulnerable to climate-related catastrophes, Native peoples are developing responses to climate change that serve as a model for Native and non-Native communities alike.

Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives... more Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so generation after generation. These are peoples who make up bedrock nations throughout the world in whose territories the United Nations says 80 percent of the world’s life sustaining biodiversity remains. Once thought of as remnants of a human past that would soon disappear in the fog of history, indigenous peoples—as we now refer to them—have in the last generation emerged as new political actors in global, regional and local debates.

Papers by Rudolph C Ryser

Introduction 1. Emerging Modern Nations 2. Fourth World Geopolitics 3. Four Nations and the U.S.A... more Introduction 1. Emerging Modern Nations 2. Fourth World Geopolitics 3. Four Nations and the U.S.A. 4. First Nations and Canada 5. The Laboratory of Internal Political Change 6. The Laboratory of External Political Change 7. Fourth World Wars in the Shadows 8. Dispatches from the Fourth World 9. The Global Movement of Nations 10. A World of Nations and States

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Jun 1, 2012

Caregivers of individuals with dementia experience elevated stress that places them at increased ... more Caregivers of individuals with dementia experience elevated stress that places them at increased risk for health problems. The purpose of this study was to compare a complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) method, Polarity therapy (PT), to an enhanced respite control condition (ERC) to reduce stress, depression and pain for American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI) family caregivers. A mixed methods, community participatory, indigenous values approach was combined with a randomized controlled clinical trial to assure both ecological validity and scientific rigor of the investigation.

American Indian Quarterly, 1991

The Center for World Indigenous Studies has served as a research, education and policy analysis i... more The Center for World Indigenous Studies has served as a research, education and policy analysis institution since its founding in 1979 when American Indian government officials meeting in a Conference of Tribal Governments called for the establishment of a documentation center. In the more than thirty years of our service we have contributed to and originated efforts to advance traditional knowledge and a constructive relationship between indigenous nations and states' governments in North America and throughout the world.

Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives... more Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so generation after generation. These are peoples who make up bedrock nations throughout the world in whose territories the United Nations says 80 percent of the world’s life sustaining biodiversity remains. Once thought of as remnants of a human past that would soon disappear in the fog of history, indigenous peoples—as we now refer to them—have in the last generation emerged as new political actors in global, regional and local debates.

American Indian governments located in a region west of the Cascade mountain range and the govern... more American Indian governments located in a region west of the Cascade mountain range and the government of the state of Washington offer programs to serve the needs of a growing American Indian elder and disabled population through the services of individuals caring for family members and also individuals employed to provide care. The American Indian and Alaska Native elder population that is disabled as a result of dementia rely on the care and help of an estimated 3,1601 individuals in tribal communities (the vast majority of whom are women) on and near Indian reservations and in cities in Washington. Tribal governments and the state government depend on federal program support to provide elder American Indian assistance. To achieve effective benefit for elder American Indians, direct assistance and support services have been defined under federal legislation to be delivered by the state of Washington through the Agency on Aging and Area Agencies on Aging working at the county level. Tribal governments also deliver support and services through caregiver programs and elder programs. Despite these efforts, support and assistance are often obstructed and qualitatively diminished for those providing care to elders and for assistance directly available to elder American Indians and Alaskan Natives.

Informit is an online service offering a wide range of database and full content publication prod... more Informit is an online service offering a wide range of database and full content publication products that deliver the vast majority of Australasian scholarly research to the education, research and business sectors. Informit is the brand that encompasses RMIT Publishing's online products ...

French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Cris et les Mapuches sur les sentiers du savoir... more French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Cris et les Mapuches sur les sentiers du savoirSpanish version available in IDRC Digital Library: Camino del conocimiento de los Cree a los Mapuch

Fourth World Journal, 2019

Indigenous political leaders and indigenous peoples’ diplomatic representatives urge states’ gove... more Indigenous political leaders and indigenous peoples’ diplomatic representatives urge states’ government and international organization representatives to sit at the negotiating table to ensure that traditional knowledge becomes incorporated in local, regional, and international agreements aimed at mitigating and organizing adaption strategies to remedy the adverse effects of climate change. How can traditional knowledge be employed along with conventional sciences? When indigenous peoples’ advocates call for scholars, representatives of states’ governments, and international institutions to recognize and respect “traditional knowledge,” what features of traditional knowledge should they recognize and respect? How will they know the difference between conventional knowledge and traditional knowledge—are there differences and what are they? Can traditional knowledge inform modern climate change food security adaptation strategies, and if so what form does the application of traditional knowledge take? In this essay I offer an answer to these questions by explaining a Fourth World scientific method for deciphering the knowledge system of proto-historic West Mexico (600 CE to 1540 CE) and blending that method with conventional scientific methods. I discuss a method of multi-variant domain retrodiction and the transposition of elements of the ancient Anáhuac scientific system into a contemporary structure blended with aspects of conventional scientific methods, thus providing details about the construction, internal coherence, and conceptual foundations of a knowledge system that extends throughout the western hemisphere. The conceptual framework presented can be incorporated into agreements between indigenous peoples’ representatives and their counterparts in states’ governments as they seek approaches to mutually understanding strategies for tackling vexing complex problems. Discussing a method for “blending” the Anáhuac knowledge system with the Cartesian knowledge system that arose in 17th century Europe may be possible if the two systems are used “in parallel” to facilitate collaboration between indigenous scientists and conventional scientists permitting them to formulate adaptation strategies that help all populations. The method of decipherment and transposition may have wider application when the need exists to blend ancient knowledge systems from various parts of the world with conventional knowledge systems used to address complex challenges in many parts of the world.

Indigenous nations are on the front line of the climate crisis. With cultures and economies among... more Indigenous nations are on the front line of the climate crisis. With cultures and economies among the most vulnerable to climate-related catastrophes, Native peoples are developing twenty-first century responses to climate change that serve as a model for Natives and non-Native communities alike. Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Indigenous peoples around the Pacific Rim have already been deeply affected by droughts, flooding, reduced glaciers and snowmelts, seasonal shifts in winds and storms, and the northward movement of species on the land and in the ocean. Using tools of resilience, Native peoples are creating defenses to strengthen their communities, mitigate losses, and adapt where possible. "Asserting Native Resilienc"e presents a rich variety of perspectives on Indigenous responses to the climate crisis, reflecting the voices of more than twenty contributors, including tribal leaders, scientists, scholars, and activists from the Pacific Northwest...

Fourth World Journal, 2011

Informit is an online service offering a wide range of database and full content publication prod... more Informit is an online service offering a wide range of database and full content publication products that deliver the vast majority of Australasian scholarly research to the education, research and business sectors. Informit is the brand that encompasses RMIT Publishing's online products ...

Human Rights Documents Online

Madam Chair and Members of the Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform, thank you fo... more Madam Chair and Members of the Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform, thank you for the invitation to present my analysis regarding forms of trusteeship arrangements between states and Indigenous nations that have in the past and currently existed in international relations.

Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments

What they say: The book offers long needed integrative and preventative approaches to diabetes. ... more What they say:

The book offers long needed integrative and preventative approaches to diabetes. Above all it is deeply empowering for anyone suffering from diabetes or caring for those affected by this dreadful disease. It makes people realize that they can take their health and thus their life into their own hands.
The insights shared clearly show the intricate relationships between place, culture, health, and people. It reminds us of the importance of traditional knowledge and lifestyles for life quality and health. The cutting edge analysis changes the way we generally look at the disease and shifts our focus to a holistic perspective that considers many factors comprising the individual as well as community level and which contribute to the widespread development of diabetes. A true eye opener. - M. Hirch, Germany.

Leslie E. Korn, PhD, MPH and Rudolph C. Ryser, PhD have collaborated in this informative approach to integrating traditional medicine with complementary/alternative medicine, and integrative medicine.

The authors include a comprehensive discussion with practical guidelines for improving nutrition and diet as they relate to diabetes and its effect on functions of neuropathy, cardiovascular illness, stress, trauma, pain, and depression. The opening chapters deal with the culture and principles of traditional healing and diabetes and nutritional supplements and healing routines. The material dealing with medicinal foods and plant medicines identifies the relationships between plants and their use as medicines.

The practical discussion and hands-on how to steps on energy medicine and polarity therapy protocol was extremely interesting. The accompanying photographs and detailed descriptions are an excellent source for personal application and for anyone involved in polarity therapy.

Worksheets provided with each chapter include objectives of the chapter and suggested exercises for implementation, application and assimilation. I found these helpful. They are easily adaptable to a support group or for use in a classroom situation.

The glossary, compete index, comprehensive references and resource list add to the value of the book as a tool for review and further reading and future study.

"Preventing & Treating Diabetes Naturally: The Native Way" is an important book for anyone ready to implement some lifestyle changes and willing to consider alternatives to traditional medical treatment. The book is highly informative, with practical step by step guidelines to improving personal health and well being. - R. Blake, USA

Indigenous nations are on the frontline of the current climate crisis. With cultures and economie... more Indigenous nations are on the frontline of the current climate crisis. With cultures and economies among the most vulnerable to climate-related catastrophes, Native peoples are developing responses to climate change that serve as a model for Native and non-Native communities alike.

Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives... more Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so generation after generation. These are peoples who make up bedrock nations throughout the world in whose territories the United Nations says 80 percent of the world’s life sustaining biodiversity remains. Once thought of as remnants of a human past that would soon disappear in the fog of history, indigenous peoples—as we now refer to them—have in the last generation emerged as new political actors in global, regional and local debates.

Introduction 1. Emerging Modern Nations 2. Fourth World Geopolitics 3. Four Nations and the U.S.A... more Introduction 1. Emerging Modern Nations 2. Fourth World Geopolitics 3. Four Nations and the U.S.A. 4. First Nations and Canada 5. The Laboratory of Internal Political Change 6. The Laboratory of External Political Change 7. Fourth World Wars in the Shadows 8. Dispatches from the Fourth World 9. The Global Movement of Nations 10. A World of Nations and States

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Jun 1, 2012

Caregivers of individuals with dementia experience elevated stress that places them at increased ... more Caregivers of individuals with dementia experience elevated stress that places them at increased risk for health problems. The purpose of this study was to compare a complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) method, Polarity therapy (PT), to an enhanced respite control condition (ERC) to reduce stress, depression and pain for American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI) family caregivers. A mixed methods, community participatory, indigenous values approach was combined with a randomized controlled clinical trial to assure both ecological validity and scientific rigor of the investigation.

American Indian Quarterly, 1991

The Center for World Indigenous Studies has served as a research, education and policy analysis i... more The Center for World Indigenous Studies has served as a research, education and policy analysis institution since its founding in 1979 when American Indian government officials meeting in a Conference of Tribal Governments called for the establishment of a documentation center. In the more than thirty years of our service we have contributed to and originated efforts to advance traditional knowledge and a constructive relationship between indigenous nations and states' governments in North America and throughout the world.

Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives... more Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so generation after generation. These are peoples who make up bedrock nations throughout the world in whose territories the United Nations says 80 percent of the world’s life sustaining biodiversity remains. Once thought of as remnants of a human past that would soon disappear in the fog of history, indigenous peoples—as we now refer to them—have in the last generation emerged as new political actors in global, regional and local debates.

American Indian governments located in a region west of the Cascade mountain range and the govern... more American Indian governments located in a region west of the Cascade mountain range and the government of the state of Washington offer programs to serve the needs of a growing American Indian elder and disabled population through the services of individuals caring for family members and also individuals employed to provide care. The American Indian and Alaska Native elder population that is disabled as a result of dementia rely on the care and help of an estimated 3,1601 individuals in tribal communities (the vast majority of whom are women) on and near Indian reservations and in cities in Washington. Tribal governments and the state government depend on federal program support to provide elder American Indian assistance. To achieve effective benefit for elder American Indians, direct assistance and support services have been defined under federal legislation to be delivered by the state of Washington through the Agency on Aging and Area Agencies on Aging working at the county level. Tribal governments also deliver support and services through caregiver programs and elder programs. Despite these efforts, support and assistance are often obstructed and qualitatively diminished for those providing care to elders and for assistance directly available to elder American Indians and Alaskan Natives.

Informit is an online service offering a wide range of database and full content publication prod... more Informit is an online service offering a wide range of database and full content publication products that deliver the vast majority of Australasian scholarly research to the education, research and business sectors. Informit is the brand that encompasses RMIT Publishing's online products ...

French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Cris et les Mapuches sur les sentiers du savoir... more French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Cris et les Mapuches sur les sentiers du savoirSpanish version available in IDRC Digital Library: Camino del conocimiento de los Cree a los Mapuch

Fourth World Journal, 2019

Indigenous political leaders and indigenous peoples’ diplomatic representatives urge states’ gove... more Indigenous political leaders and indigenous peoples’ diplomatic representatives urge states’ government and international organization representatives to sit at the negotiating table to ensure that traditional knowledge becomes incorporated in local, regional, and international agreements aimed at mitigating and organizing adaption strategies to remedy the adverse effects of climate change. How can traditional knowledge be employed along with conventional sciences? When indigenous peoples’ advocates call for scholars, representatives of states’ governments, and international institutions to recognize and respect “traditional knowledge,” what features of traditional knowledge should they recognize and respect? How will they know the difference between conventional knowledge and traditional knowledge—are there differences and what are they? Can traditional knowledge inform modern climate change food security adaptation strategies, and if so what form does the application of traditional knowledge take? In this essay I offer an answer to these questions by explaining a Fourth World scientific method for deciphering the knowledge system of proto-historic West Mexico (600 CE to 1540 CE) and blending that method with conventional scientific methods. I discuss a method of multi-variant domain retrodiction and the transposition of elements of the ancient Anáhuac scientific system into a contemporary structure blended with aspects of conventional scientific methods, thus providing details about the construction, internal coherence, and conceptual foundations of a knowledge system that extends throughout the western hemisphere. The conceptual framework presented can be incorporated into agreements between indigenous peoples’ representatives and their counterparts in states’ governments as they seek approaches to mutually understanding strategies for tackling vexing complex problems. Discussing a method for “blending” the Anáhuac knowledge system with the Cartesian knowledge system that arose in 17th century Europe may be possible if the two systems are used “in parallel” to facilitate collaboration between indigenous scientists and conventional scientists permitting them to formulate adaptation strategies that help all populations. The method of decipherment and transposition may have wider application when the need exists to blend ancient knowledge systems from various parts of the world with conventional knowledge systems used to address complex challenges in many parts of the world.

Indigenous nations are on the front line of the climate crisis. With cultures and economies among... more Indigenous nations are on the front line of the climate crisis. With cultures and economies among the most vulnerable to climate-related catastrophes, Native peoples are developing twenty-first century responses to climate change that serve as a model for Natives and non-Native communities alike. Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Indigenous peoples around the Pacific Rim have already been deeply affected by droughts, flooding, reduced glaciers and snowmelts, seasonal shifts in winds and storms, and the northward movement of species on the land and in the ocean. Using tools of resilience, Native peoples are creating defenses to strengthen their communities, mitigate losses, and adapt where possible. "Asserting Native Resilienc"e presents a rich variety of perspectives on Indigenous responses to the climate crisis, reflecting the voices of more than twenty contributors, including tribal leaders, scientists, scholars, and activists from the Pacific Northwest...

Fourth World Journal, 2011

Informit is an online service offering a wide range of database and full content publication prod... more Informit is an online service offering a wide range of database and full content publication products that deliver the vast majority of Australasian scholarly research to the education, research and business sectors. Informit is the brand that encompasses RMIT Publishing's online products ...

Human Rights Documents Online

Madam Chair and Members of the Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform, thank you fo... more Madam Chair and Members of the Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform, thank you for the invitation to present my analysis regarding forms of trusteeship arrangements between states and Indigenous nations that have in the past and currently existed in international relations.

Indigenous peoples and nations were the original concern of 16th and 17th century diplomats and l... more Indigenous peoples and nations were the original concern of 16th and 17th century diplomats and legal experts in Europe as they considered explanations for relationships between colonizing kingdoms and states and the peoples of Africa, the Americas, and those already living on islands in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. They formulated juridical and diplomatic concepts of greater powers protecting smaller peoples and conceived thereby the modern understanding of international trusteeships. The League of Nations Mandate system and the United Nations Trusteeship Council are products of these early ideas. The United Nations Trusteeship system supervised the relationship between administering states and non-self-governing territories to implement internationally agreed decolonization measures. The Trusteeship Council became moribund in 1994, but could be resurrected to more directly address non-self-governing peoples located inside the boundaries of recognized states. The Truste...

Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives... more Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so generation after generation. These are peoples who make up bedrock nations throughout the world in whose territories the United Nations says 80 percent of the world’s life sustaining biodiversity remains. Once thought of as remnants of a human past that would soon disappear in the fog of history, indigenous peoples—as we now refer to them—have in the last generation emerged as new political actors in global, regional and local debates.

Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, 2007

In part 1 of this 2 part series the paper entitled: Designing a polarity therapy protocol: Bridgi... more In part 1 of this 2 part series the paper entitled: Designing a polarity therapy protocol: Bridging holistic, cultural, and biomedical models of research, presented a rationale for the design and development of a standardized Polarity therapy protocol for the treatment of dementia caregivers. In this second part, the bodywork protocol is presented with allopathic and esoteric anatomical locations. This protocol was designed as one approach to developing a standardized intervention that would maximize the reduction of stress, depression and anxiety and enhance well-being and quality of life in the recipients. There are many options for choosing points and locations for a protocol and these must first address acceptability by the research participant and capacity of the therapist to repeatedly apply the protocol. The potential for a pleasurable and a profound stress reduction response was informed by anecdotal data and clinical observation and this also informed the selection of points. Finally, the polarity paradigm is derived from the balancing of the gunas, and this also informed the choice of points and contacts.