Third Annual Conference on Native American Nutrition
OCTOBER 2 - 5, 2018
From knowledge to practice: Using both Indigenous wisdom and academic research to improve Native American nutrition
Opening Ceremony and Welcome Remarks
Emcee: Abigail Echo-Hawk (Pawnee/Athbascan)
Director, Urban Indian Health Institute
Seattle, WA;
Emcee: Linda Frizzell, PhD (Eastern Cherokee and Lakota)
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Minneapolis, MN
Mindy S. Kurzer, PhD,
Conference Planning Committee Chair
University of Minnesota
Saint Paul, MN
Jesse Chase (Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community)
Chair, Seeds of Native Health
Prior Lake, MN
Brian Buhr, PhD
Dean, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resources Sciences
University of Minnesota
Saint Paul, MN
Nikki Farago (Seneca)
Assistant Commissioner of Children and Family Services, Minnesota Department of Human Services
Saint Paul, MN
Honor Guard: Sisseton-Wahpeton Kit Fox Society
Drum group: Iron Boy
Prayer: Leonard Wabasha, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Cultural Director
Chef Sean Sherman (Oglala Lakota)
Founder, The Sioux Chef
SESSION 1: NUTRITION ACROSS THE LIFECYCLE
Camie Jae Goldhammer, MSW, LICSW, IBCLC (Sisseton-Wahpeton)
Clinical Social Worker and Lactation Consultant
Seattle, WA
Beverly Stabber-Warne, RN, MSN (Oglala Lakota)
South Dakota State University College of Nursing
Brookings, SD
Kelli Begay, MS, MBA, RD, (Kickapoo/Seminole/Mvskoke Creek)
Nutrition Consultant, Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention
Indian Health Service
Rockville, MD
Petra Harmon One Hawk, MPH (Standing Rock Dakota and Lakota)
Title VI Director and Director of the Nutrition for the Elderly/Caregiver Support Program
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Fort Yates, ND
SESSION 2: INTERGENERATIONAL LEARNING ABOUT FOOD AND NUTRITION
Evangeline Nuvayestewa (Hopi/Tewa)
Retired teacher
Leon A. Nuvayestewa Sr. (Hopi)
Retired Health Director/Administrator, Hopi Tribe
Valerie Nuvayestewa (Hopi/Tewa)
Diabetes Prevention Educator, DHHS, Hopi Tribe;
Erin Eustace (Hopi/Tewa/Zuni), age 20
Polacca, AZ
Introduction by:
Harriet Kuhnlein, PhD
Professor Emerita, McGill University
Montreal, Canada
Aura Leticia Teleguario Sincal (Maya Kaqchikel)
Advisor, Indigenous Peoples’ Issues for USAID and the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala
Former Guatemalan Minister of Labor and Social Security
Guatemala
Ernie Whiteman (Northern Arapahoe)
Cultural Director, Dream of Wild Health
Hugo, MN
Missy Whiteman (Northern Araphahoe/Kickapoo)
Independent Filmmaker
Pierce, MN
Louis Whiteman (Northern Arapahoe), age 14
Pierce, MN
Prayer by:
Janice Bad Moccasin (Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community)
Comments by:
Lea Zeise (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin)
Intertribal Agriculture Council
Panelists:
Emily Baldy (Yurok and Hupa), age 16
Hoopa CA
Mariah Gladstone (Cherokee and Blackfeet), age 24
Kalispell, MT
Autumn OnlyAChief (Pawnee), age 24
Los Angeles, CA
Taj Sunio (Native Hawaiian), age 18
Lanai City, HI
Kile White (Navajo), age 16
Albuquerque, NM
Moderated by:
Electa Hare-RedCorn, LCSW (Pawnee/Yankton)
Healthy Policy Research Scholar, University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR
Cindy Farlee (Cheyenne River Lakota)
Native Youth Food Sovereignty Alliance
Lawrence, KS
SESSION 3: FOOD SYSTEMS, FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND NUTRITION
Kalidas Shetty, PhD
Associate Vice President for International Partnerships and Collaborations and Professor of Plant Sciences
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND
Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, DrPH, MPH (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Associate Professor, Health Promotion Sciences, Sam K. Viersen Family Foundation Presidential Professor, College of Public Health
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Tulsa, OK
Debra D. Echo-Hawk (Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma)
Pawnee Keeper of the Seeds and Title VI Coordinator
Pawnee, OK
Leon A. Nuvayestewa Sr. (Hopi)
Retired Health Director/Administrator
Hopi Tribe
Jane Mt. Pleasant, PhD (Tuscarora)
Associate Professor, Department of Horticulture,
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Zachary Ducheneaux (Cheyenne River Sioux)
Intertribal Agriculture Council Technical Assistance Program
Eagle Butte, SD
POWERED BY PECHAKUCHA
Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee)
Echo Hawk Consulting
Tulsa, OK
Faith Fennelly
Newman’s Own Foundation
Westport, CT
Nora Frank-Buckner, MPH (Nez Perce/Klamath)
Tam Lutz, MPH, MHA (Lummi Nation)
Portland Area Indian Health Board
Portland, OR; and NW Tribal Food Sovereignty Coalition Members
Betsy Loring, Nonie Woolf (Yakama/Choctaw)
Kirsten Krane
Scott Brant
FAST Blackfeet
Browning, MT
Sharon Silvas (Blackfeet) and Stefany Jones
Indian Health Services
Browning, MT
Marissa McElrone
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
Azure B Boure, BSNES (Suquamish)
Coordinator, Suquamish Tribe Traditional Food and Medicine Program
Suquamish, WA
Rebecca Edler (Menominee)
Dolly Potts (Prairie Band Potawatomi)
Adam Schulz (Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians)
Sustainable Development Institute
College of Menominee Nation
Keshena, WI
Scott Goode, BS
Nourishing Systems
Central Point, OR; Research Scientist, Desert
Research Institute (DRI), Reno, NV
Beverly Ausmus Ramsey, PhD
Wa-Hi-La, LLC
Woodsboro, MD; DRI, Reno, NV
Anna Eichner, BA
Tikkum Olam Research & Teaching Farm
Central Point, OR; DRI, Reno, NV
Beverly Ausmus Ramsey, PhD
Desert Research Institute
Reno, NV
Martha Ames Burgess, MS
Adjunct Professor, Tohono O’odham Community College
Sells, AZ
Fox (Arikara)
B. McGinness, MEd
A. Wadsworth (Spirit Lake Nation)
M. Yborra, RD
United Tribes Technical College
Bismarck, ND
J. Hood, MSc (Navajo)
D. Carroll, MPH (Navajo)
C. George, MS (Navajo)
S. Shin, MD
Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment (COPE)
Gallup, NM
SESSION 4: IMPORTANCE OF RECOVERY FROM HISTORICAL TRAUMA TO HEALTH AND NUTRITION
Donald Warne, MD, MPH (Oglala Lakota)
Director, Indians into Medicine Program
Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and Professor, Family & Community Medicine
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND
Hope Flanagan (Seneca)
Wild Foods Educator, Dream of Wild Health
Minneapolis, MN
Evangeline Nuvayestewa (Hopi/Tewa)
Retired teacher
Polacca, AZ
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
Brookings, SD
Ernie Whiteman (Northern Arapahoe)
Cultural Director, Dream of Wild Health
Minneapolis, MN
Karina Walters, PhD (Choctaw)
William P. and Ruth Gerberding Endowed Professor and Associate Dean for Research Co-Director
Indigenous Research Wellness Institute, University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Prayer by:
Janice Bad Moccasin (Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community)
Closing Remarks:
Abigail Echo-Hawk (Pawnee/Athbascan)
Director, Urban Indian Health Institute
Seattle, WA
Linda Frizzell, PhD (Eastern Cherokee and Lakota)
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Minneapolis, MN
Mary Annette Pember (Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe)
Award-winning journalist and former president of the Native American Journalists Association
Cincinnati, OH