10th Native Women & Men's Wellness .pdf - American Indian Institute

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Alvarado G • Modifying Your Recipes: Improving the Health, Keeping the Taste Gail Gardner, M.S., RD (White Earth Ojibwe) Nutritionist/Diabetes Educator - White Earth Diabetes Project Trying to make your recipes lower fat and lower sugar can be a frustrating experience. All too often you end up with a dish that is tasteless, and visually not appealing. Gail Gardner has almost 20 years experience in modifying the sugar and fat, and keeping the taste and appearance of the original recipe. Gail will teach participants what each ingredient contributes to the overall dish (structure, flavor, sweetness, browning) and how to make successful substitutions. Alvarado H • Healing War Exposure: Integrative Care and Native Connections Victoria Bruner, LCSW, RN, BCETS (Cherokee) Director of Clinical Education - Department of Defense Deployment Health Clinical Center Thomas Wagner Director of Field Operations - New Mexico Department of Veterans' Services James Reede (San Carlos Apache) Iraq Combat Veteran Faced with pervasive loss, life threat, and moral conflict in the field of battle, the human body and brain adapt to extraordinary circumstances in extraordinary ways. These adaptations come at a high price, and many native and non-native men and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are paying that price every day. For the clinician who seeks to help, an understanding of the physiology of war-zone stress and resilience is an essential foundation, both for recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder and other conditions, and for addressing the stigma and shame that keep many service members and veterans from seeking and accepting the help and support they need. Additionally, the Native warrior ethos is a protective factor for the body, mind and spirit. Creating an integrative model of warrior care that is community based, intensive and using Native ritual enables natural resilience. Efforts to engage San Carlos war veterans will be discussed. Learning Objectives: • Explain the physiological roots of combat/operational stress effects in understandable, non-stigmatizing terms • Describe an integrative intensive modality of culturally sensitive healing • Create a space for discussion of the needs of Native American veterans 22
Session 8 – Wednesday, March 30, 2011 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Alvarado B • The Path to Accessibility: Tips for Helping Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Late-Deafened and Deaf-Blind Tribal Members Obtain Spiritual and Physical Wellness Mark Azure (Chippewa-Cree/Dakota/Tsimshian) Consultant & Spiritual Nourishment Provider – Sacred Circle Tribal members who experience hearing loss are just like any other tribal member; they need spiritual, medical, traditional and historical information in order to feed their mind, body and spirit. Communication is vital to continue important bonds between family and tribal members. Often tribal members who are deaf and are not able to participate in community events such as pow wows, traditional ceremonies or prayers find themselves isolated and eventually stray into non-tribal communities or unhealthy environments to search the fulfillment they need. Losing tribal members in this way breaks important bonds, and the tribe loses another member to the outside world. For example, an elder who has important lifelong history about tradition, medicine or family information, and loses their hearing later in life, may find that they are unable to share vital information with the tribe. A solution to this situation would be to provide note takers, captioners or have the elder work with tribal members in a 1 to 1, rather than group environment. This workshop will provide the audience with information on the different communication needs of tribal members who are born deaf, experience both blindness and deafness, or lose their hearing later in life. Different scenarios will be presented with methods for ensuring that information is shared in the best way to match a communication type. Alvarado C • So You Think I’m Lazy and My Education Is Free?!! Julie Dorton Clark, Ph.D. (Kiowa/Absentee Shawnee) Assistant Professor & Associate Director – Oklahoma State University, Counseling Psychology Clinic Racism and discrimination exist in various forms. In this workshop participants will learn about nine beliefs or stereotypes people may hold about Native Americans and the subtle ways in which these beliefs may be communicated in daily interactions. These experiences, known as microaggressions, may be harmful due to their subtle and covert nature, as it leaves the recipient doubting their perception of the experience, which may result in feelings of frustration, self-doubt and isolation. Participants in this workshop will learn about three forms of microaggressions and more specifically about the nine themes that emerged as being the underlying messages four small groups of Native Americans reported experiencing on the job, in the community, or within their tribe. For example, one form of discrimination seems to be an overwhelming idea that Native Americans, “live off the government”, e.g. food, healthcare, and education are free, “…Indians are just handed all this money and they just sit on their butts all day long and do nothing.” The ‘aggressor’ gives little thought to what was taken away or what was sacrificed during the imposed process of assimilation yet attributes certain perceived lifestyles to laziness. These nine areas of subtle forms of discrimination will serve as topics of discussion, examining how they influence the overall well-being of Native people and ideas may be generated as to how to prevent these messages from being harmful to our health. 23
Page 1 and 2: "Eyes #1" By Thomas Poolaw (Kiowa)
Page 3 and 4: About the American Indian Institute
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