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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 in Indian Country: the fire chief is so excited about it, he's bringing the wood

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published February 12, 2018 at 12:04 PM CST
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A ceremonial fire. The sound of drumming. The scent of sage. A feast and prayer and offerings of tobacco. Firelight teachings and a sweat lodge.

Babette Sandman says it's important to let everyone know they're starting this off in a good way; "this" being a local chapter of Natives Against Heroin.

Even the founder of the organization, James Cross, will be in attendance.  And Sandman says the ceremony will serve a dual purpose: to let those suffering from addiction know the community cares about them and doesn't want them to die, and to put the dealers on notice.
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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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