Indigenous Elderly in the United States: Wounded Bodies, Vivid Minds

Abstract

This paper addresses age and aging from a critical humanities perspective and uses indigenous societies as an example on how to positively manage the aging process, and to show that certain societies’ positive approach to old age can help ameliorate the often negatively viewed phases of growing older, aging people’s bodies over the years, but not their minds.

Keywords

• American Indian
• Aging
• Grandparenting
• Anishinaabe
• Ojibwe