First Annual Conference on Native American Nutrition
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Framing the conference: Context, purpose and outcomes
Opening Ceremony
Lori Watso (Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community)
Chair, Seeds of Native Health
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
President Eric Kaler
University of Minnesota
Colors presented by Sisseton Wahpeton Kit Fox Society
Drums by Mato Pejuta
Prayer by SMSC member Andy Vig
Feeding Ourselves: Historical and contemporary challenges to healthy nutrition in Indian Country
Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma)
President and CEO
Echo Hawk Consulting
Janie Hipp, JD, LLM (Chickasaw Nation)
Director, Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative
Law Professor, University of Arkansas
Goals of the conference
“Highlighting innovative work in Indian Country”
Gary Ferguson, ND (Unangan/Aleut)
Community Health Services Senior Director
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
“Developing partnerships”
Abigail Echo-Hawk, MA (Pawnee/Athbascan)
Co-Director, Partnerships for Native Health
Washington State University
“Translating research into policy and practice”
Tiffany Beckman, MD, MPH (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe)
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota Medical School
“Building momentum to improve Native American nutrition”
Janie Hipp, JD, LLM (Chickasaw Nation)
Director, Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative
Law Professor, University of Arkansas
Improving Native nutritional health through evidence-based research and practice-based knowledge
“Building trust and maintaining relationships between researchers and Native American communities”
Abigail EchoHawk, MA (Pawnee/Athbascan)
Co-director
Partnerships for Native Health
Washington State University
“Power + place = Indigenous identity”
Faith Spotted Eagle (Yankton Sioux)
Braveheart Society
Ihanktonwan Dakota Territory South Dakota
Breakout sessions track A: Health eating/nutrition education
“Eagle Adventure Diabetes Prevention Program”
Jill Fox, MPH (Chickasaw)
Get Fresh! Eagle Adventure Coordinator
Chickasaw Nation Nutrition Services
Sarah Miracle, MBA, RD, LD
Get Fresh! SNAP-ED Program Manager
Chickasaw Nation Nutrition Services
“Healthy children, strong families: Family-based healthy lifestyle promotion in Indian Country”
Alexandra Adams, MD, PhD
Professor and Director
Center for American Indian and Rural Health
Montana State University
Scott Krueger RD, CD, CDE
Nutritional Services Director
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
“Building healthy community relationships through food security and food sovereignty”
Treena Delormier, PhD (Mohawk)
Assistant Professor
University of Hawaii
Aianóhon Kaylia Marquis, BA (Mohawk)
Food Security Coordinator
Ieiénthos Akotióhkwa Planting Group
Kahnawá:ke
Breakout sessions track B: Improving Native food systems
“Store Outside Your Door: Indigenous food and health for Alaska Native people”
Gary Ferguson, ND (Unangan/Aleut)
Community Health Services Senior Director
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
“A fresh look at what (you think) you know about the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) package”
Holly Hunts, PhD
Associate Professor
Montana State University
“Improving the food environment in Native communities”
Joel Gittelsohn, PhD
Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Marla Pardilla, MPH, MSW
Research Coordinator
S.W. Field Research Office
Johns Hopkins University
Breakout sessions track C: Social determinants of Native nutritional health
“What are social determinants of nutritional health in the context of Indian Country?”
Olivia Roanhorse, MPH
Director, Native Strong: Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures
Notah Begay III Foundation
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Donald Warne, MD, MPH (Oglala Lakota)
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Public Health
North Dakota State University
“Stress among Oklahoma Choctaws caring for dependents with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes”
J. Neil Henderson, PhD (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Professor and Leader
Medical Discovery Team on Health Equity: Rural Health Access and American Indian Health
University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth
“The ancestral human microbiome: From traditional production and consumption to the impact of modern practices on nutritional health among Amazonian peoples”
Hortensia Caballero Arias, PhD
Centro de Antropologia del Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (IVIC)
Caracas, Venezuela
Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, PhD
Associate Professor
New York University School of Medicine
Model programs in Indian Country
“Nisqually Community Garden: Approaches to health through relationships with food, the Earth, and each other”
Janell Blacketer (Nisqually Indian Tribe)
Field Technician
Grace Ann Byrd (Nisqually Indian Tribe)
Field Technician
Caitlin Krenn
Supervisor
Community Garden Program
“Good Heart Grocery and Eat Right Deli community assessment and strategic plan”
Tiffany Beckman, MD, MPH (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe)
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota Medical School
Faith Spotted Eagle (Yankton Sioux)
Braveheart Society
Ihanktonwan Dakota Territory, South Dakota
“Food is Our Medicine: Advancing Native health and culture”
Ken Parker, CNLP (Seneca Nation)
Project Manager
Seneca Nation of Indians and Seneca Diabetes Foundation
“Oneida Community Integrated Food System”
Joanie Buckley (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin)
Internal Services Division Director
Oneida Community Integrated Food System
Conference keynote address
“Feeding the spirit: Promoting a cultural of health”
Valerie Segrest, MS (Muckleshoot)
Traditional Foods and Medicines Program Manager
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe
Moving forward together to improve Native American nutrition
“Indigenous peoples’ food systems: Global awareness and action”
Harriet Kuhnlein, PhD
Professor Emerita, McGill University
Founding Director, Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment
Next generation: Native American youth presentations
“Changing Native American nutrition”
Rachael Cornelius, BS (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin)
“Using a health impact assessment to engage tribal leaders and inform the development of a health food retail intervention: The THRIVE study”
Jordan Hearod, MPH (Choctaw)
Doctoral Student in Health Promotion
University of Okalhoma Health Sciences Center
“Health and wellness programming in urban Native American communities: Perspectives of Native Americans with diabetes”
Jason Champagne, BS (Red Lake Band of Chippewa)
MPH Student in Public Health Nutrition, University of Minnesota
Communit Wellness Chef, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
“Next steps: How to use food medicine for diabetes”
Brandon K. One Feather, BS, ASBMB (Oglala Lakota)
“Building momentum to improve Native American nutrition”
Tiffany Beckman, MD, MPH (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe)
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota Medical School
Abigail Echo-Hawk, MA (Kitkehahki Band of Pawnee Nation/Upper Athabascan People of Mentasta Village, Alaska)
Co-Director
Partnerships for Native Health
Washington State University
Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma)
President and CEO
Echo Hawk Consulting
Gary Ferguson, ND (Unangan/Aleut)
Community Health Services Senior Director,
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
Janie Hipp, JD, LLM (Chickasaw Nation)
Director, Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative
Law Professor, University of Arkansas
Lori Watso (Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community)
Chair
Seeds of Native Health
Moderated by Brenda Child, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of American Studies
University of Minnesota
Closing remarks
Brian Buhr
Dean, College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences
University of Minnesota
Lori Watso (Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community)
Chair
Seeds of Native Health