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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: "To know that one person froze to death is something to fight for"

Copyright Deb Holman. Used with permission.

Last week, the Twin Ports/Fond du Lac chapter of the American Indian Movement (AIM)marched to bring visibility to homelessness in Duluth. 

And visibility was the idea.  Everyone sees construction workers, says Phoebe Davis, a member of the city's Indigenous Commission (and a longtime KUMD volunteer), so marchers were clad in borrowed reflective vests.

But visibility is  a bigger issue for Indigenous people.  Indigenous people are disproportionately harmed by growing crisis of homelessness.  They're just 2% of the overall population but nearly 20% of the homeless population. And HUD's annual Point-in-Time survey - conducted in January, pre-pandemic - was up by almost 20% over last year.

With bans on eviction and foreclosures suspended for the time being, the situation is only going to get worse.

Phoebe Davis says we need to see people and what they are experiencing without looking away from the seriousness of their situation.

Journey to Wellness in Indian Country is made possible by the University of Minnesota Medical School-Duluth Campus, an emerging center of rural, American Indian and indigenous health research.

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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