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Article: Gwich'in open unique healing centre (Tl'oondih Healing Camp in N.W.T.).
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- Wind Speaker
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- November 1, 1996
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FORT McPHERSON, N.W.T.
The Tl'oondih Healing Camp and Healing Pro gram are firsts in North America. Unique in that it deals with families as units, rather than individuals taken out of the family and community contexts, Tl'oondih is also the first example of an Aboriginal organization -- the Gwich'in Tribal Council -- has taken an independent approach to building a facility and developing its own healing program.
"I believe that the western Arctic has more trouble than the world knows," said Doug Smith, Tl'oondih's executive director. "I have never seen more suicide, more violence against women, more alcohol and drug dependencies, than I have seen in the ...