Healing Images

The Healing People medical wear imagery is reflective of native practices used to provide healing, balance, purification, peace and positivity. The Healing People provides a connection to people that goes beyond today’s general medical practices, recognizing that spiritual health is interconnected and woven into all aspects of physical well-being. The ideas and designs created are encompassing of many native healing elements and are not specific to any one Tribal entity since healing practices and traditional designs are as diverse as the hundreds of Tribes in existence today, each with their own customs and traditions.

Custom Designs

New artwork is in development and we plan to update products frequently, adding to the current design offerings, however, if you need something tailored specifically for your particular health service agency or department, we can work with you to design a custom image to best represent your group.

Butterfly

Hope, healing, renewal

Butterflies not only bring beauty and joy but also have many meanings among Native American people. The butterfly signifies concepts related to healing such as hope, growth, transformation, and renewal. 

Feathers

Prayer, healing, purification, balance

An Eagle Feather is considered sacred to many Native American people and is often used for ceremonial healing and purification. It is also a sacred symbol of balance and reflective the duality found in life (life/death, male/female, summer/winter) which is needed for the circle of life to continue.

Native Floral Medicine

Nature’s beautiful healing earth medicines

Indigenous peoples used a variety of plants for medicinal purposes. The floral image depicts Camas Lily, Wild rose, Indian Paint brush, and Balsamroot, used by various tribes in the Northwest for medicinal purposes such as cough expectorant, reducing inflammation, and enhancing immune system. 

Hummingbird

Healing, peace, positivity

The meaning behind the hummingbird imagery is as vast as it is beautiful. For many indigenous cultures, the hummingbird is reflective of healing, peace, positivity, and is seen as a spirit that helps those in need.  

Balance

Native geometric feather imagery depicting healing and balance

An Eagle Feather is considered sacred to many Native American people and is often used for ceremonial healing and purification. It is also a sacred symbol of balance and reflective the duality found in life (life/death, male/female, summer/winter) which is needed for the circle of life to continue.

Prayer

Centering, body purification, healing 

For centuries, many indigenous cultures have practiced ceremonies using smudging, or a cleansing smoke bath, as a way to purify the body, promote positivity and healing, and provide centering, with the idea that our physical beings and environments have a silent and sacred energy that is central to our overall well-being.

Sustenance

Survival, life, sacred nourishment

For indigenous populations, water holds a spiritual and vital place, held as a respected and sacred element which provides life to all creation, essential to first foods sustenance and the nutritional health of Native peoples.