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, May 29, 2012

Invitation to Join Kinomaage Class for a Day

If any of the DDP research subjects are interested in joining the NAS 340 Kinomaage: Earth Shows Us the Way class for a day, I was sent the following invitation by instructor Aimee Cree Dunn:

"If people would like to join us Thursday (June 21), we will be visiting a mine site and a waterfalls rich with plant life - as we have a few possibilites regarding the location, I'm not sure yet which mine or which waterfalls we will visit (will depend on the weather, class preferences, etc.), but DDP folks can meet in the Whitman Circle at 10 and be ready to head out with us.  We'll be returning at 5.

The trip will give them a good insight into how we impact the land as we live on it today as well as provide an opportunity for plant identification in a beautiful place.  Travel could be up to 60 miles one way.

Hope it can work out as it'd be great to have the DDP folks get a taste of Kinomaage (no pun intended!) and, I think, provide an interesting perspective for the scope of the project in terms of human ecology".

Aimee
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