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TNB->Melungeons: Sarcoidosis is Not strictly a Melungeon Disease
Posted on Thursday, March 20 @ 22:57:08 CDT (2068 reads)

Anonymous writes AUTHOR: Janet Crain

Another Internet Myth about Melungeons and Native Americans that needs to be addressed is that Melungeons are all afflicted by Sarcoidosis. This is simply not true.

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TNB->Three Affiliate: Three Affiliated Tribes: Diabetes rate correlates with degree of Indian inherita
Posted on Tuesday, March 29 @ 01:05:27 CST (6812 reads)

AUTHORS: JD Brosseau, RC Eelkema, AC Crawford and TA Abe

The health records of all members of the Three Affiliated Indian Tribes of Fort Berthold, North Dakota were reviewed in order to define the extent of diabetes in this population.

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TNB->Cheyenne Indian: Cheyenne woman searches for bone marrow doner
Posted on Monday, March 28 @ 22:07:21 CST (7794 reads)

AUTHOR: Susan, Olp, Gazette Staff Writer

Thirty-four-year-old Melissa Curley is relying on the kindness of strangers in her battle against leukemia.

Chemotherapy hasn't helped the Northern Cheyenne woman defeat the life-threatening chronic myelogenous leukemia that doctors diagnosed nearly three years ago. So her hope now rests in a bone marrow transplant to restore her to health.

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Crafts-> Beadwork: Traditional wampum carries message of health
Posted on Friday, June 20 @ 09:21:09 CDT (10073 reads)

KEYWORDS: Health diabetes wampum belt culture traditions

AUTHOR: Christine Graef, Correspondent, Indian Country Today

QUEBEC - Since it left Joe Jacob's home in Kahnawake, Quebec, the Diabetes Wampum Belt has been carried by walkers, bicyclists, canoes and runners across 1,500 miles, through more than a dozen communities, carrying its message of strength. It's been estimated the belt could take about 300 years to make its rounds and return to where it originated.

"It carries good words, strong words," said Jacobs.

The project began in Jacob's sleep when, in 1996, his dreams were riddled with images of people gathering around a messenger and the words "our blood is sweet." When he understood it to mean he needed to take a message of diabetes awareness to neighboring communities, he followed the example of his Mohawk ancestors who used wampum to pass on the word.

Jacobs, who does not have diabetes but has family members with the disease, spent hours cutting the white plastic from an electrical wire to make hundreds of half-inch long beads. He also made his own loom and, using nylon and cat sinew, created the purple and white belt that says, "Teiakonekwenhsatsikhe:tare" (our blood is sweet).

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Statistics: Diabetes: Highly prevalent in American Indians, but rarely treated
Posted on Tuesday, March 26 @ 01:17:43 CST (15060 reads)

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AUTHOR: Adam Bowles, Norwich Bulletin

Although his mother and aunts developed the disease, Kenneth M. Reels, chairman of the Mashantucket Tribal Council, never knew what diabetes was until he was diagnosed with it four years ago.

Reels has since become well educated on the topic, hosting five annual conferences on diabetes at tribe-owned Foxwoods Resort Casino, the world's largest gambling enterprise.

But local and state health experts say ignorance and denial remain a problem among hundreds of local American Indians who suffer from the disease, but don't seek care until they face a serious, sometimes life-threatening complication.

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TNB->Ho-Chunk Nation: Health Concerns Unite Ho-Chunks
Posted on Thursday, December 27 @ 00:31:22 CST (9710 reads)

AUTHOR:Antoinette Rahn
Central Wisconsin Sunday

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NEKOOSA -- Health and wellness programs thriving within the Ho-Chunk Nation have become a catalyst for bringing age-old traditions and character to new generations.

Tribal members are trying to show younger generations there are health benefits to some of the activities that many consider traditions.

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Keep the Circle Strong
Posted on Sunday, December 09 @ 02:13:39 CST (9972 reads)

©2001 National Marrow Donor Program. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with permission.

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Each year, thousands of American Indian and Alaska Native patients are diagnosed with life-threatening blood diseases such as leukemia and aplastic anemia. For most, their only hope for a cure is a transplant of healthy marrow or blood stem cells from someone who shares their tissue type.

Because the characteristics of tissue type are inherited, the best chance of finding a match is from a sibling. But only 1 percent of the approximately 4 million volunteers in the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) Registry are American Indians and Alaska Natives. Today, more than ever, there is an urgent need for volunteer marrow donors from the American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

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