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Virtual Open House - Tuesday, May 5, 2026: 5-6:30 p.m.

Join us at one of our upcoming virtual Graduate School Open House events on Zoom! You'll have the opportunity to learn more about 蘑菇短视频,  understand the Graduate School application process, and meet key program representatives.

This certificate program provides healthcare professionals with a new approach and training for servering Native peoples. The program is grounded in tribal community for those who serve American Indian populations in the South and the East. This culturally-oriented certificate option will enable current professionals in the Western North Carolina region, who are Cherokee or serve a Native American population, to acquire the cultural knowledge and methodological understanding to serve more effectively.

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What You'll Learn

This interdisciplinary, online program requires 12 hours of courses and will help students connect the contemporary approaches to medicine with the culturally sensitive needs of a population considered underrepresented and underserved. This certificate program provides healthcare professionals with a new approach and training for serving Native peoples. The program is grounded in tribal community for those who serve American Indian populations in the South and the East. This culturally-oriented certificate option will enable current professionals in the Western North Carolina region, who are Cherokee or serve a Native American population, to acquire the cultural knowledge and methodological understanding to serve more effectively. Courses will cover topics including Issues in Indian Health, Cherokee Culture and History, and Healing the Wounded Native Child.

Where You'll Go

A certificate in Culturally-Based Native Health will enable students to utilize their training in a health-related discipline and apply it to Southeastern Indian cultures. 

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More About Our Culturally-Based Native Health Certificate Program

The Culturally-Based Native Health Program provides a new approach to training for health professionals serving Native peoples, grounded in a tribal community, and integrated into the core of 蘑菇短视频.

Culturally Grounded Foundations

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Culturally Grounded Foundations

Core Coursework

Build a strong foundation for serving Native communities through coursework rooted in Cherokee history, culture, and health. These required courses introduce the cultural, historical, and political contexts that shape health experiences for Indigenous peoples in the Southeast, preparing students to practice with respect, awareness, and cultural fluency.

Required Courses

  
NAS 470/570 鈥� Cherokee Culture and History
Intro to Cherokee worldviews, historical experiences, and how they relate to health and policy.

NAS 474/574 鈥� Issues in Indian Health Cherokee
Historical and cultural perspectives on disease and health in Native communities from 1500 to today.

Specialized Perspectives in Native Health

 

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Specialized Perspectives in Native Health

Career鈥慠eady Focus Areas

Deepen expertise through electives that explore behavioral health, health disparities, substance use, and culturally specific approaches to care. Students tailor their certificate to their professional goals by choosing courses that address contemporary health issues in Indian Country through an Indigenous lens.

Elective Courses 

  
NAS 471/571 鈥� Indigenous & Western Psychologies
Examines Southeastern Native worldviews alongside Western psychological models to highlight culturally grounded approaches to behavioral health.

NAS 452/552 鈥� Roots of Health Disparities in Native American Populations
Explores how historical, genetic, social, and environmental factors contribute to contemporary health disparities in Native communities.

NAS 476/576 鈥� Tobacco & Substance Use Among American Indians
Surveys the historical, cultural, and modern roles of tobacco and other substance use within Southeastern Native communities.

NAS 472/572 鈥� Healing the Wounded Native Child
Focuses on culturally sensitive, trauma鈥慽nformed approaches to supporting the behavioral health needs of Native children and adolescents.

Boxed lunches can be purchased during the registration process for Thursday's lunch break at a cost of $13 each.

Rooted in the Mountains

This annual symposium integrates indigenous knowledge, language, health and the environment. It is an interdisciplinary forum where enthnography, literature, art, music, Native and Western science converge.

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Rooted in the Mountains

The 15th Annual Rooted in the Mountains Symposium

Thursday and Friday, September 25 and 26, 2025
Location: Bardo Arts Center on the Main Campus of 蘑菇短视频. 

This year鈥檚 theme, 鈥淢atrilineal Worldmaking (Vision of What鈥檚 Possible)鈥�, honors the power of matrilineal societies, where kinship, inheritance, and identity are traced through the mother鈥檚 line. In the Kituwah language:
Di gi tsi/ de da li he li sdi sgv/ i de hv i
To acknowledge and give thanks to our mothers for our life/lives.

These visionary leaders will share insights on Indigenous knowledge, reproductive sovereignty, and the enduring strength of matrilineal traditions.

Registration Information

Free Registration for the first 40 Regular Attendee Registrants and Select Groups

Tribal Elders, 蘑菇短视频 Faculty, Staff, and Students: Free of Charge, but still need to pre-register.

Non-蘑菇短视频 Students: $50 per attendee (after the first free 40 enrollment spots have been filled)

Regular Attendee: $175 per attendee (after the first free 40 enrollment spots have been filled)

Featured Topic: Doula Training and the Historical Significance of Birth Supporters.

2025 Rooted in the Mountains Agenda

2025 Rooted in the Mountains Speaker Biographies

Boxed lunches can be purchased during the registration process for Thursday's lunch break at a cost of $13 each.

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