The Northern Michigan University Center for Native American Studies is now in the midst of the implementation phase of the Decolonizing Diet Project. The DDP research subjects have been adhering to their meal and excercise plans since March 25, 2012. While we have put forth great effort to prepare for this phase, we realize that there may be some things that still need tweaking. The master food list is located on the DDP Group Site. We will continue updating food provider information as we go along, and will announce opportunities to join food consultants on various outings as they become available.

We would like to say chi-miigwech (many thanks) to those who have supported our project thus far including Northern Michigan University, the US Forest Service, the Cedar Tree Institute, the Kewenaw Bay Indian Community, and several businesses (please see the list of supporters at the DDP Group Site). If you or your organization would like to donate to this project (whether in the form of food, equipment, or cash), or if you have any questions about the DDP, please contact Dr. Martin Reinhardt, principal investigator, at (906)-227-1397, or email: mreinhar@nmu.edu

We wish everyone the very best on this exciting adventure.


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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Change to Daily Online Journaling Plan

At the DDP gathering on Friday, February 10th, April Lindala provided some helpful suggestions about how we should go about our daily journaling when we begin the DDP. As a result of that session, we also decided to scrap the journal tool from the group site, and to have the research subjects use the personal discussion forums for their online daily journaling instead. The reason we have decided to do this is because the discussion forum will allow us to upload photos and files up to 2mb, and it will also allow others to interact with us about our postings. I realize that some of the research subjects have already posted 1 or 2 entries into the journals, but I will have to ask you to do so again but this time in the discussion forum. You can do this by clicking on the personal discussion forum link in your space, and then click on "add a new discussion topic". This will provide a new page each time you do that, and it will automatically include the date and time of your posting. So, sometime prior to March 25th, I would like all of the research subjects to once again post their level of committment along with a meal plan and exercise plan for at least the first week. If anyone would like to plan further ahead, feel free. If you have any questions about these changes, please email me at mreinhar@nmu.edu or call 906-227-1397.
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