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About The Association of
American Indian Practitioners

Currently, dual licensure for IM practitioners are available for those who practice Integrative and naturopathic/ indigenopathic medicine in turtle island. Conversely, this means that all IM practitioners can exercise dual licensure in 50 states. Such dual licensure is needed to protect, preserve, and promote the practice of IM medicine. In addition, AAIP also offers IM practitioners the opportunity to share IM protocols by participating in clinical studies with the AAIP’s FDA/HHS approved Institutional Review Board (“IRB”). Thus, AAIP provides not only protection but opportunity for IM practitioners in all 50 states to participate in the understanding and advancement of IM with its Clinical Research Study IRB’s

AAIP was established during the wake of the covid 19 pandemic as not only an indigenous medical licensing board but also a pre preventative disease surveillance agency whereas there were more than 200 tribal nations that were left out of receiving the twenty billion dollar allocation of resources for federally acknowledged tribal nations and their citizens and those who are committed to living out the traditional life ways of the nations in which they reside alongside of. AAIP recognizes the disconnect of humans indigenous and non indigenous in failing to foster self care approaches based on cultural, spiritual and religious incongruities and insensitivities .

AAIP encourages and supports the federal government in upholding their government to government relationship with the Aboriginal treaty based nations that have never assumed federal acknowledgment by the OFA (Office of Federal Acknowledgement) and encourages education and training to create a network of IM providers and practitioners that participants can rely on during times such as the covid 19 pandemic and other public challenges which may follow.

Members who obtain their LPIM (Licensed Practitioner of Indigenous Medicine) license will enjoy an exclusive private membership association opportunity to service their participants in a clinical/ research setting who are seeking optimal health and wellness from IM practitioners that prescribe natural products and wellness protocols. The IM approach to wellness for participants is the antithesis of conventional medicine’s disease management model upon which insurance is based for a sick population. However, increasingly more people, companies and practitioners now recognize the cultural value of IM. In short, AAIP’s alignment with the Indigenous peoples of this country affords certain protections designed to enhance the practice of IM and thereby allow IM practitioners to freely practice the natural healing arts in a drug-free environment. For example, while AAIP understands drug science has made many great strides over the past 200 years, AAIP also recognizes the many indigenous traditional healing modalities that have been unacknowledged and mispracticed by many medical physicians and naturopathic practitioners lacking the guidance of indigenous Mosketu intelligence within the scope of practice. Further, AAIP believes strongly in the integrative approach of western medical care and indigenopathic medicine protocols that contribute to a humane ability to reach optimal wellness and homeostasis.

The ongoing spiritual/ religious mission of (“AAIP”) is to provide licensure for medical providers and traditional healers who continue to practice indigenous medicine (“IM”). IM practitioners use natural products and indigenopathic wellness protocols with the goal of encouraging participants in achieving optimal health and well-being. Such practitioners can continue alongside of indigenous healers in advancing medical/ indigenous medicine science by submitting standardized indigenopathic wellness protocols to the AAIP’s Institutional Review Board (“IRB”) for clinical research studies that can be used to document the effectiveness of indigenopathic medicine sacraments and protocols. In short, AAIP is a confederated tribally chartered medical licensing board treaty based agency since time immemorial made up of medicine societies of many confederated nations on turtle island where healers who utilize indigenopathic medicine approaches can be supported for humanity’s spiritual, emotional and physical wellness first.

Consequently, by increasing the number of AAIP licenses, humanity now affords greater access to contributing toward a more healthier economy. Therefore, AAIP establishes a network of indigenopathic medicine providers for the benefit of participants seeking optimal health and well- being. This, in turn, can help America reinvest in its greatest asset: our collective citizens!