Crow Nation defines indigenous medicine, licensing alternative practitioners

The Crow Nation recently became the first Native American tribe to exercise its jurisdiction over the practice of indigenous medicine, boldly invoking the tribal sovereignty that is recognized in and protected by the United States Constitution and treaties, which no other Native American nation or state in the U.S. has done before. Centuries of economic deprivation, poverty, social turmoil, and oppression has led to a resurgence of the need for tribal identities and political systems that…