First Annual Conference on Native American Nutrition
SEPTEMBER 26 - 27, 2016
FROM KNOWLEDGE TO PRACTICE: USING BOTH INDIGENOUS WISDOM AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH TO IMPROVE NATIVE AMERICAN NUTRITION
Framing the conference: Context, purpose and outcomes
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
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
“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
Abigail EchoHawk, MA (Pawnee/Athbascan)
Co-director
Partnerships for Native Health
Washington State University
Faith Spotted Eagle (Yankton Sioux)
Braveheart Society
Ihanktonwan Dakota Territory South Dakota
Breakout sessions track A: Health eating/nutrition education
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
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
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
Gary Ferguson, ND (Unangan/Aleut)
Community Health Services Senior Director
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
Holly Hunts, PhD
Associate Professor
Montana State University
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
Olivia Roanhorse, MPH
Director, Native Strong: Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures
Notah Begay III Foundation
Download Roanhorse’s presentation
Donald Warne, MD, MPH (Oglala Lakota)
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Public Health
North Dakota State University
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
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
Janell Blacketer (Nisqually Indian Tribe)
Field Technician
Grace Ann Byrd (Nisqually Indian Tribe)
Field Technician
Caitlin Krenn
Supervisor
Community Garden Program
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
Ken Parker, CNLP (Seneca Nation)
Project Manager
Seneca Nation of Indians and Seneca Diabetes Foundation
Conference keynote address
Moving forward together to improve Native American nutrition
Harriet Kuhnlein, PhD
Professor Emerita, McGill University
Founding Director, Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment
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
“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)
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