Lakota Healthy Start is a collaboration of individuals who care about the future of the Lakota Nation. The Oglala Sioux Tribe Healthy Start program went from an asbestos-ridden office building to a mold-infested…

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Congratulations to Donald Warne, MD, MPH, Oglala Lakota for being named to the board of directors for the American Cancer Society.  …

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We are honored and deeply appreciative to have Dr. Gerald Yutrzenka of the University of South Dakota School of Medicine as a member of the film's Circle of Partners!  Dr. Yutrzenka is deeply committed to the serious health disparities among American Indians.  Thank you,  the What's in the Heart team...…

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What’s in the Heart – A documentary film about the alarming health crisis among Native Americans, created in large part by the US government's failed promises and inaction, yet curable largely because of the committed American Indians who are working tirelessly to bring about…

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Once, Black Elk spoke these words:



"I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw…

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Vi Waln: December a difficult month for tribes in the Great Plains







December is a difficult month for the tribes living in the Great Plains. Winters are often very harsh here and the extremely poor conditions many of our people live in make day-to-day survival much harder. Subzero temperatures and… Continue