Photo credit: University of Michigan Less than half (42%) of children in the United States meet the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity each day, with even lower rates reported in under-resourced communities. This lack of physical activity puts kids at a higher risk for obesity, anxiety, depression, school absenteeism and lower academic performance. Children...
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←BACK Learning the Lakota language is part of life at Red Cloud. With only 6,000 fluent—and rapidly aging—speakers left, keeping the language alive means encouraging a new generation to learn and use the language in their daily lives. And for language teacher Roger White Eyes, that’s where using technology comes in. Several years ago, in a professional...
In 2023, the Medicine Root Garden program, operated by our partner on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the Oyate Teca Project, trained or assisted 62 individuals ages 5 to 57 in its mission to “help teach our people how to feed themselves by teaching them how to grow their food,” reported director Rose Fraser. Impact by the numbers! The program served people in 13...