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Spirit Within Project

Tribal Practices for Wellness Indian Country
​Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka: Spirit Within Project is a 3-year (2018-2021) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Tribal Practices for Wellness in Indian Country (TPWIC) funded program. The Spirit Within Project (SWP) aims to cultivate the protective factors of traditional and cultural practices to address and prevent health disparities such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Three strategies the SWP focuses on include collaborative community engagement, traditional foods, traditional movement and contemporary physical activity. 

Community Input

The SWP is driven by community involvement through focus groups, stakeholder interviews, and an advisory committee. We asked our community to identify activities and events they would like to see through this program.

In addition, community assessments are conducted to assess traditional foods, traditional movement, physical activity, and overall well-being. Read the results from our 2019 community assessment, provided by John Snow, Inc. Results from the 2021 community assessment will be posted soon. 

2019 Community assessment results

SWP Workshops

Join us at one of our monthly community workshops! These workshops support and focus on traditional foods, traditional movement, and contemporary physical activity. Take a look at our community calendar to see when the next SWP workshop will take place.

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Resources

Traditional foods recipes
3 Sisters salsa
Blue Corn Mush
Potawatomi Berry Rice
Tocabe's Wild Rice
Blue Corn pancakes
FAll squash recipes
Andrea Murdoch's Quinoa Vegetable Soup
Ben Jacobs Recipes
Traditional foods resources
Grocery store map
Lakota diet
MyNative PLate
water infusion
Pueblo food experience
Movement and physical activity
Indigenized fitness
Physical Activity Kit (Pak)
powwow sweat
Stretching
Scavenger hunt bingo

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