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Journey to Wellness
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: US lags behind Canada in First Nations acknowledgement, reparations (encore)

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published July 27, 2020 at 5:35 PM CDT
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(This episode of Journey to Wellness originally aired June 17, 2019.  Look for an updated list of links at the end of  this story.)

Canada has finished its three-year inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous woman and girls. And they're calling it genocide. Is that the right word?

 And why does Canada seem to be so much further along the road to acknowledging historical wrongs and trying to make reparation than the US?

You can read the mandate of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls here.

You can read the final report here.

Information about the Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition is here.

Information about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada is here.

Information about the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation is here.

This morning's Minnesota Native News touched on Indigenous parents' continued fears that their children will be taken from them. Minnesota has placed more Indigenous kids in foster care than any other state in the country, according to this three-year-old story in the Star Tribune.

You can listen to this morning's Minnesota Native News episode here.
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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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