Journey to Wellness in Indian Country

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"Journey to Wellness in Indian Country" is a 10-minute program featuring interviews with medical and health researchers, professors and doctors and other people active in Native American Health today. The North 1033 partners with the University of Minnesota Duluth Medical School with their focus on Native American Community Health.

The North 1033 partners with the University of Minnesota Duluth Medical School with their focus on Native American Community Health welcoming guests to talk about their research, their community health experiences and the community collaborations that are improving and changing approaches to Native American Health care today.


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Caption: Jingle dress dancer, 2017 United Tribes Powwow, Bismarck, ND, Credit: ©Lisa Johnson
Looking around, it's hard to know where to start. Worries and fears about physical safety, economic safety - your kids, your parents, y...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 07:35
Caption: Sidewalk chalk messages this spring at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, Credit: Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College/Facebook
Most students, parents, and teachers aren't huge fans of distance learning, but for Indigenous students and tribal colleges, it's alot more than ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 07:15
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At 4pm on Friday, March 27th, just at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and national shut-downs, the chairman of the of the Mashpee Wampano...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 08:37
Caption: From last fall's Gichi-gami Gathering to Stop Line 3, Credit: Fibonacci Blue/Flickr
Despite the pandemic, despite the stay-at-home orders, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency wants to go ahead with a series of "telephone town h...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 17:22
Caption: Members of the Lummi Nation's Tribal Health Center conducting COVID-19 testing earlier this month, Credit: Credit Lummi Communications/Facebook
Native people in America are facing the same situation the rest of the country finds itself in - but with a few significant differences. Testing...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 15:23
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Things were always pretty busy at AICHO. The American Indian Community Housing Organization's Dabinoo'Igan Emergency Domestic Violence Shelter pro...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 12:54
Caption: Cover illustration for "Akawe Niwii-tibaajim", Credit: Credit Steve Premo/MNHS Press
Baabiitaw Boyd believes the elders who told her that a lot of the problems Native people experience are the result of not having access to their la...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 16:35
Caption: Hern Fineday, Credit: Round Lake Traditions
Not only is Herb Fineday a former Fond du Lac police officer and chief of police, he's a guy who can sew 3500 stitches a minute, build a studio ...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 15:56
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Tadd Johnson laughs and says he's at an age where he doesn't mind speaking truth to power.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 14:16
Caption: Fort Snelling, painted circa 1875, Credit: Alfred Sederberg
Fort Snelling needs a name change, says the Minnesota Historical Society. That is, the historic site, not the fort itself.

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2019
  • Length: 08:58
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When you think of world-class medicine in Minnesota, you probably think of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. But Johns Hopkins has just opened up a cen...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 10:07
Caption: An Anishinaabe elder leads a water ceremony with women veterans, Credit: ROXANNE GOULD
What happens at the intersection of Native American "ways of knowing" and the kind of academic rigor demanded of colleges and universities? The And...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 05:20
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Caption: Elders Howard Kimewon and Alphonse Pitawanakwat provided these insights on preventing suicide, Credit: Indigenous Peoples Task Force/ojibwe.net
Native kids aged 10 to 24 have the highest rate of suicide of any age group in Minnesota -- more than three times that of white kids.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 12:56
Caption: "The Doctrine of Rediscovery", Credit: Jonathan Thunder
Although you've probably never thought about it this way, European colonizers exploring the world were more concerned with making themselves comfor...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2019
  • Length: 15:48
Caption: Sean Sherman brought his Indigenous Food Lab to the Minnesota State Fair. He will also be doing demos at the Indigenous Food Expo in Duluth later this month, Credit: THE SIOUX CHEF/FACEBOOK
It's pretty easy to bring a skill like mindfulness to eating. Paying attention to that bite you put in your mouth? Enjoying it? Simple.

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 09:13
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Caption: Illustration for "Grasshopper Girl", Credit: Jordan Rodgers
Jordan Rodgers isn't really sure how, as a college-age person, she ended up illustrating a couple of books - or illustrating for the UMD Medical Sc...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2019
  • Length: 09:24
Caption: A little dancer mugs for the camera at the 2008 Chefornak Alaska Dance Festival. Chefornak is a rural Alaska Native village with a population of around 500 people., Credit: MCAV0Y/FLICKR
Duluth's Dr. Mary Owen, an Alaska Native and the head of UMD's Center of American Indian and Minority Health, isn't encouraged by the news from her...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2019
  • Length: 10:19
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Who writes the history books? As we're coming to learn, most often it's the "winner." And in many instances, that perspective also informs how...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2019
  • Length: 11:58
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Anishinabe author Heid Erdrich was dumbstruck that even national literary lights didn't know about contemporary Native authors and poets. But what...

  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 16:46