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Journey to Wellness // Monday 8:00amA 10-minute bi-weekly program on Native American Community Health in MN and around the country in partnership with the University of Minnesota Medical School- Duluth Campus, Center of American Indian and Minority Health. The program will feature interviews with medical and health researchers, professors, and doctors plus native people active in Native American health today. Journey to Wellness on The North 103.3 is made possible by Ampers and the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Journey to Wellness in Indian Country: "A fort is about a wall; not a bridge"

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published November 18, 2019 at 9:48 AM CST
Minnesota Historical Society

Fort Snelling needs a name change, says the Minnesota Historical Society. That is, the historic site, not the fort itself. 

So they've been holding meetings around the state to see what Minnesotans are suggesting and the public comment period closed last Friday.  They want to know how to best reflect the different kinds of stories now being told there.

Roxanne Gould is Ojibwe and an assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Service Professions at UMD.  Dr. Jim Rock is Dakota and the Director of Indigenous Programming at the Marshall Alworth Planetarium.

They say Fort Snelling's name isn't the problem.  And furthermore, Dakota communities have told them what the problem is and what they should do about it - the state just doesn't like what they heard.

You can read more about the Fort Snelling project, including the conversation aroundrenaming, online.
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Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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