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Avoiding Diabetes by Living a Healthy Lifestyle
Saturday, December 19 2009
 
Written by Dr. Dan Halvorsen, MS, PhD • University of Minnesota Medical School / Physiology,
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Image The October 2009 Circle article about Ron “Bear” Cronick stimulated a very positive response. You may recall that Bear is 70 years old and has had no diabetes until recently a physical showed some “pre-diabetes” elevated blood sugars. Bear is more motivated than ever to continue his daily exercise habits and high quality food choices.

Many people, after reading the article, sent me questions and asked, “How can I avoid diabetes?” So a second article appears here to answer the question.

New Seven Clans Casino Red Lake opens Dec. 23
Saturday, December 19 2009
 
Written by Michael Meuers,
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When turning east off Highway #89 just south of the Red Lake Reservation boundary line, the first thing one sees is a giant sculpture on the front lawn of the new Seven Clans Casino facility. It is Migizi (eagle), flying low as if ready to pick a northern pike, talons spread, from the lake waters.

The huge sculpture of a bald eagle is quite impressive, and many believe it may become a tourist attraction in and of itself.  Beyond Migizi is a building that might be a longhouse, celebrating the architecture of the Ojibwe Woodlands culture, the new Seven Clans Casino complex.

Elders Tobacco Project has elders talking about tobacco
Saturday, December 19 2009
 
Written by Ona Knoxsah,
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Attention Native smokers: before going out for your next smoke break, be advised that you are likely to be approached by a Native elder who has made a commitment to educate Native smokers in the Twin Cities about the deadly health affects and overuse of non-commercial tobacco.

The  elders have been trained to approach smokers in the Native community and speak with them about tobacco. They don’t expect you to extinguish your cigarette, or quit cold turkey. They simply want to uphold their role as Native elders and advise you about the dangers of commercial tobacco, and the value of traditionally harvested tobacco.

 

Dakota activist charged
Saturday, December 19 2009
 
Written by Circle Staff,
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In the 1950s, a wave of political repression in the U.S. targeted communists and sympathizers (“fellow travelers”). It was called the Red Scare. The new threat to domestic peace and tranquility has been dubbed the Green Scare, in which animal rights and environmental activists have been branded as “eco-terrorists”.

Those convicted of crimes involving property damage have been sentenced to inordinately long prison terms; and there also have been convictions in conspiracy cases under a 2006 federal law called the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), legislation pushed by the meat and pharmaceutical industries.

Scott DeMuth, a young Dakota activist from Minneapolis, is the latest person to run afoul of AETA.
Native Nations respond to climate change threats
Saturday, December 19 2009
 
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Nearly 400 Native leaders, scholars, elders and Tribal College students from across the country, joined by scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), came together at a watershed gathering, the Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop II, to formulate a collective response to the far-reaching impacts of climate change on Native lands and communities.

NACDI Symposium focus on light rail’s economic potential for Indians
Wednesday, December 16 2009
 
Written by Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet,
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“We will return to our ceremonies, and we will gain back our strength and our values,” said Justin Kii Huenemann (Navajo), President and CEO of the Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI). “We are just at the beginning of this new prosperity.”

That is the prophecy that Huenemann learned as a young man and re-told to the Oct. 22 American Indian Community Development Symposium. According to the prophecy, the Native people of North American would endure seven generations of extreme hardship – they would lose their language, turn away from their ceremonies and traditions, and experience terrible tragedies, death, and famine, but at the end of the seven generations, there would be a period of prosperity.

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