Committee Members

 

Patty LaPlant- Coordinator, National Native Children's Trauma Center UM

Mike Todd- Ft Peck Community Organizer, Center for Native Health Partnerships

Paul Lachapelle- Extension Community Development Specialist MSU

Mari Eggers- Research Associate, Little Big Horn College

Deb LaVeaux- Program Coordinator Center for Native Health Partnerships

Vickie LaFromboise- Research Associate Center for Native Health Partnerships

Bonnie Sachatello-Sawyer- Director Hopa Mountain

Annette Sutherland- Rocky Boy Community Organizer, Center for Native Health Partnerships

Robin Saha- Department of Environmental Justice Health and Policy, University of Montana

Linda Juneau, Tribal Liaison, University of Montana President's Office

Rick Van den Pol, University of Montana Division of Educational Research and Service

Walter Fleming- Native American Studies Department Head MSU

Blakely Brown- Associate Professor Health and Human Performance Dept UM

Myra Left Hand- Community Health Educator, Crow and Northern Cheyenne Indian Health Services

Ellen Swaney- Director of American Indian/Minority Achievement, MT Commissioner of Higher Education Office

Heather Miller- Program Coordinator Hopa Mountain

Maya Bronston- Program Assistant Center for Native Health Partnerships

Suzanne Christopher- Program Director, Center for Native Health Partnerships

Matt Herman- Native American Studies, Montana State University

Gyda Swaney- Department of Psychology, Director of InPsych, University of Montana

Bob McAnally, Vice-President, Ft. Peck Tribal College

Sponsors

  • The Center for Native Health Partnerships

  • Montana Area Health Education Center (AHEC)

  • the Division of Health Sciences, Montana State University

  • Office of the President, Dr. Geoffrey gamble, Montana State University

  • Office of the President, Dr. George M. Dennison, Univ of Montana

  • Office of Academic Affairs, Univ of Montana

 

This event is supported by Grant Number P20MD002317 from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities or the National Institutes of Health.



 

 
…we should be asking not “Who owns native culture?”, but “How can we promote respectful treatment of native cultures and indigenous forms of self-expression with mass societies?” …All of us-native and non-native alike- have a stake in decisions about the control of culture, for those decisions will determine the future health of our imperiled intellectual and artistic commons.
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