Fourth Annual Conference on Native American Nutrition
September 15 - 18, 2019
From knowledge to practice: Using both Indigenous wisdom and academic research to improve Native American nutrition
Color Guard: Sisseton-Wahpeton Kit Fox Society
Drum group: Wahpekute
Prayer: Sonya Seaboy, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
Emcee: Abigail Echo-Hawk (Pawnee)
Director
Urban Indian Health Institute
Seattle, WA
Mindy S. Kurzer, PhD
Conference Planning Committee Chair
University of Minnesota
Saint Paul, MN
Rebecca Crooks-Stratton (Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community)
Secretary/Treasurer
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
Prior Lake, MN
Joan T.A. Gabel
President
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Lisa Bayley
Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Children and Family Services
Minnesota Department of Human Services
Saint Paul, MN
Norma Kassi (Vuntut Gwich’in First Nation)
Advisor to the Canadian Indigenous Leadership Initiative
Co-Director, Canadian Mountain Network
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
SESSION 1: EFFECTIVE TRIBAL NUTRITION POLICIES
Colby D. Duren, JD
Director
Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative
Fayetteville, AR
Erin Parker, JD, LLM
Research Director and Staff Attorney
Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative
Fayetteville, AR
Loren BirdRattler (Blackfeet)
Project Manager
Agriculture Resource Management Plan
Blackfeet Nation
Browning, MT
Stacy Hammer, RDN, LD (Lower Sioux)
Director of Community Health
Lower Sioux Health Care Center
Morton, MN
Buck Jones (Cayuse)
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
Portland, OR
Gary Besaw (Menominee)
Director
Department of Agriculture, and Food Systems
Menominee Indian Tribe
Keshena, WI
Denisa Livingston, MPH (Diné)
Community Health Advocate
Diné Community Advocacy Alliance
Fruitland, NM
Leon Nuvayestewa, Sr. (Hopi)
Retired Health Director/Administrator
Hopi Tribe
Polacca, AZ
Moderated by:
Colby D. Duren, JD
Director
Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative
Fayetteville, AR
Loren BirdRattler (Blackfeet)
Project Manager
Agriculture Resource Management Plan
Blackfeet Nation
Browning, MT
Gary Besaw (Menominee)
Director
Department of Agriculture, and Food Systems
Menominee Indian Tribe
Keshena, WI
Buck Jones (Cayuse)
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
Portland, OR
Stacy Hammer, RDN, LD (Lower Sioux)
Director of Community Health
Lower Sioux Health Care Center
Morton, MN
Denisa Livingston, MPH (Diné)
Community Health Advocate
Diné Community Advocacy Alliance
Fruitland, NM
Erin Parker, JD, LLM
Research Director and Staff Attorney
Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative
Fayetteville, AR
SESSION 2: YOUTH VOICES
Ellise David (Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs)
Warm Springs, OR
Elsie DuBray (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe/Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation)
Blackfoot, SD
Introduction by:
Abigail Echo-Hawk (Pawnee/Athbascan)
Director
Urban Indian Health Institute
Seattle, WA
Sean Sherman (Oglala Lakota)
The Sioux Chef/North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS)
Minneapolis, MN
Mariah Gladstone (Blackfeet)
Syracuse, NY
Leon Nuvayestewa, Sr. (Hopi)
Retired Health Director/Administrator
Hopi Tribe
Polacca, AZ
Introduction by:
Rebecca Crooks-Stratton (Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community)
Secretary/Treasurer
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
Prior Lake, MN
Peggy Flanagan (White Earth Nation of Ojibwe)
Lt. Governor
State of Minnesota
Moderated by: Cindy Farlee (Itázipčho Lakȟóta)
Native American Agriculture Fund, Associate Program Officer
Youth/Beginning Farmer and Rancher Liaison
Fayetteville, AR
Moderated by: Megan Forcia (Bad River Band of Ojibwe)
Native Programs Coordinator
University of Minnesota Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute
Saint Paul, MN
Ellise David (Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs)
Warm Springs, OR
Elsie DuBray (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe/Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation)
Blackfoot, SD
Mariah Gladstone (Blackfeet)
Syracuse, NY
Lucas Humblet (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin)
Minneapolis, MN
Marco Ovando (Shoshone Paiute Tribes of Nevada and Idaho)
Boise, ID
SESSION 3: STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING NUTRITION OF URBAN NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATIONS
Abigail Echo-Hawk, MA (Pawnee)
Director, Urban Indian Health Institute
Seattle, WA
Megan Forcia (Bad River Band of Ojibwe)
Native Programs Coordinator
University of Minnesota Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute
Saint Paul, MN
Carlos-Andres Gallegos, PhD(c) (Andean)
Washington University in St. Louis and The Calihata Initiative
Denny Medicinebird (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma)
Southern Plains Tribal Health Board
Oklahoma City, OK
Francesca Toledo-Alexander (Seminole and Muscogee – Creek)
Southern Plains Tribal Health Board
Oklahoma City, OK
Hannah Tait Neufeld, PhD
The University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Dave Skene, MA (Métis)
White Owl Ancestry Association, Kitchener
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Cynthia Wilson, MS (Navajo)
Utah Dine Bikeyah
Salt Lake City, UT
Dana Thompson (Wahpeton-Sisseton and Mdewakanton Dakota)
Co-owner and Chief Operating Officer
The Sioux Chef
Minneapolis, MN
Itai Jeffries, PhD (Yèsah)
Traditional Health Program Director
Seattle Indian Health Board
Seattle, WA
Holly Hunts, PhD
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
Natasha Goldtooth (Navajo)
Dine College
Tsaile, AZ
Tillie Stewart, AA (Apsaalooke and Cree)
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
Carmen Yupe (Shoshone Bannock)
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
Brittany Wenniseri:iostha Jock, PhD, MHS (Kanien’keha:ka)
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Stephen Robert Penner
PhD Student
University of Guelph’s School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (2020)
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Valerie Segrest, MS (Muckleshoot)
Native Foods Nutrition Educator
Enumclaw, WA
Beverly Stabber Warne, RN, MSN (Oglala Lakota)
South Dakota State University College of Nursing
Rapid City, SD
Moderated by: Abigail Echo-Hawk, MA (Pawnee)
Director, Urban Indian Health Institute
Seattle, WA
Itai Jeffries, PhD (Yèsah)
Traditional Health Program Director
Seattle Indian Health Board
Seattle, WA
Valerie Segrest, MS (Muckleshoot)
Native Foods Nutrition Educator
Enumclaw, WA
Beverly Stabber Warne, RN, MSN (Oglala Lakota)
South Dakota State University College of Nursing
Rapid City, SD
Dana Thompson (Wahpeton-Sisseton and Mdewakanton Dakota)
Co-owner and Chief Operating Officer
The Sioux Chef
Minneapolis, MN
Jennifer K. Gauthier, MPA
Division of Extension: Menominee Nation/County
Keshena, WI
Alexandra Adams, MD, PhD
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
Sarah Stotz, PhD, MS, RD, CDE
University of Colorado School of Public Health
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health
Aurora, CO
Heather Pontius, RD, CDN
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe-Diabetes Center for Excellence
Akwesasne, NY
Kelly Moore, MD, FAAP (Creek)
University of Colorado School of Public Health
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health
Aurora, CO
SESSION 4: BEST PRACTICES IN COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN NATIVE COMMUNITIES AND ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS
Christine Martin (Crow)
Little Big Horn College
Crow Agency, MT
Vanessa Simonds, ScD (Crow)
Associate Professor
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
Moderated by:
Abigail Echo-Hawk (Pawnee)
Director
Urban Indian Health Institute
Seattle, WA
Rhonda Bowers (Northern Arapaho)
CAB Chair and University of Wyoming Extension on the Wind River Reservation (WRR)
Treena Wasonti:io Delormier, PhD (Kanienke’há:ka – Mohawk)
Associate Professor and Associate Director, CINE
McGill University
Montréal, Canada
Clarisse Harris (Northern Paiute)
Growing Resilience Community Advisory Board
Pat Harris (Northern Arapaho)
Growing Resilience Community Advisory Board
Harriet Kuhnlein, PhD
Professor Emerita, McGill University
Founding Director, CINE
Montréal, Canada
Vanessa Simonds, ScD (Crow)
Associate Professor
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
Alyssa Wechsler
Research Scientist
University of Wyoming
Christine M. Porter, PhD
Associate Professor and Wyoming Excellence Chair in Community and Public Health
Laramie, WY
Growing Resilience Community Advisory Board (CAB) members: Rhonda Bowers (Northern Arapaho), CAB Chair and University of Wyoming Extension on the Wind River Reservation (WRR); Clarisse Harris (Northern Paiute); Pat Harris (Northern Arapaho); and Ina Weed (Eastern Shoshone)
Itai Jeffries, PhD (Yèsah)
Traditional Health Program Director
Seattle Indian Health Board
Seattle, WA
Prayer by: Janice Bad Moccasin (Crow Creek Sioux Tribe)
Dakota Cultural Advisor
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
Abigail Echo-Hawk (Pawnee)
Director
Urban Indian Health Institute
Seattle, WA
Mindy S Kurzer, PhD
Conference Chair, Professor and Director
Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute
University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN
Treena Wasonti:io Delormier, PhD (Kanienke’há:ka – Mohawk)
Associate Professor and Associate Director, CINE
McGill University
Montréal, Canada
Norma Kassi (Vuntut Gwich’in First Nation)
Advisor to the Canadian Indigenous Leadership Initiative
Co-Director, Canadian Mountain Network
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Harriet Kuhnlein, PhD
Professor Emerita, McGill University
Founding Director, CINE
Montréal, Canada
Moderated by:
Abigail Echo-Hawk (Pawnee)
Director
Urban Indian Health Institute
Seattle, WA
Lenora Cook (Swinomish)
La Conner, WA
Hope Flanagan (Seneca)
Wild Foods Educator
Dream of Wild Health
Minneapolis, MN
Linda Frizzell, PhD (Eastern Cherokee and Lakota)
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Minneapolis, MN
Norma Kassi (Vuntut Gwich’in First Nation)
Advisor to the Canadian Indigenous Leadership Initiative
Co-Director, Canadian Mountain Network
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Leon A. Nuvayestewa Sr. (Hopi)
Retired Health Director/Administrator
Hopi Tribe
Polacca, AZ
Beverly Stabber Warne, RN, MSN (Oglala Lakota)
South Dakota State University College of Nursing
Rapid City, SD
Ernie Whiteman (Northern Arapahoe)
Cultural Director
Dream of Wild Health
Minneapolis, MN