Barbara K. Charbonneau-Dahlen

Barbara K. Charbonneau-Dahlen PhD, RN (; June 6, 1952 – May 7, 2021) was an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. She was a tenured professor of nursing who advocated for indigenous recruitment into the nursing field and fought for those who have experienced sexual abuse. She earned both a Bachelor's and master's degree from University of North Dakota (UND). She completed the Family Nurse Practitioner certification program at UND and earned a doctorate from Florida Atlantic University Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing. She was a professor at Minnesota State University Mankato in the School of Nursing until her death.

Charbonneau-Dahlen received ANA's 2002 Research Practice Award for her study, "Problems and Resources of American Indian Elders." She developed the Dream Catcher/Medicine Wheel Model which was implemented to recruit nurses through the Retention of American Indians into Nursing (RAIN) Program at the University of North Dakota. She filed a suit alleging abuse at St. Paul's Indian Mission School, in Marty, South Dakota.

Published work

Charbonneau-Dahlen BK. Quilting a Field Pattern Portrait Using Butcher’s Methodology. Journal of Holistic Nursing. 2016;34(3):253-258. doi:10.1177/0898010115609249

Charbonneau-Dahlen, Barbara PhD. Symbiotic Allegory as Innovative Indigenous Research Methodology. Advances in Nursing Science 43(1):p E25-E35, January/March 2020. DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000257 Baldwin, J. A., Lowe, J., Brooks, J., Charbonneau-Dahlen, B. K., Lawrence, G., Johnson-Jennings, M., Padgett, G., Kelley, M., & Camplain, C. (2021). Formative Research and Cultural Tailoring of a Substance Abuse Prevention Program for American Indian Youth: Findings From the Intertribal Talking Circle Intervention. Health Promotion Practice, 22(6), 778-785. doi: 10.1177/1524839920918551