American Indian Culture and Research Journal

INTRODUCTION In the Tewa Pueblo world, health is thought of as a state of balance or a state of harmony between the human and natural environments. John Collier, in the 1930s, described the search for harmony between the human and natural environments by the Pueblo people as not altogether unique but so very special that he knew of nowhere else where a more perfect flowering of the man-society and man-society-nature relationship had happened. The Pueblo people recognize that they live in a world of polarities-life and death, man and woman, weak and strong, black and white, and winter and summer-which create unity. They believe that past and future come together in the present-or in the center. The center is where harmony, balance, and grounding happen. It is where opposites come together to create cyclic movement and flowingness-or healing.