The Native Literacy Source of Medicine

There is a vast difference between holistic as used by mainstream and wholistic as known by Aboriginal worldview. Holistic according to mainstream understanding continues to deny the spiritual and community aspect of life. This book traces Native literacy back to the the source of its struggle to effect relevant change for the Native adult learner. Wholistic according to Aboriginal worldview understands that spirit strengthened in identity is the axis of development. Left to practice its own definition and understanding of wholistic literacy Native literacy would make significant changes in levels of postsecondary education and employment. Wholistic Native literacy can provide an understanding of the conditioning of history thus freeing the individual from the self-fulfilling prophecy of inferiority. Aboriginal worldview historically embraced the life-long learner concept that adult education embraces. It embraces individual and community responsibility to maintain community denying current individualism and politics. When the right to heal is returned through Aboriginal definition of wholistic literacy and Aboriginal society returns to health perhaps mainstream too will heal and move forward from the disastrous self-inflicted situation it currently maintains.