Personal, policy, and practitioner view of the synergy of Native American and food-agriculture issues

This presentation will weave together several narrative threads that are somewhat overlapping including 1.) personally, as an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe from Pine Ridge, South Dakota; 2.) from the perspective of his current advocacy and education position (adjunct clinical legal faculty and CEO of American Indian Health Management & Policy, LLC; 3.) as a clinician whose counsel included numerous relatives who are Lakota medicine men and spiritual leaders and a mother who is a professor of nursing; 4.) and on the ground with the tribes/communities as they implement change to address the issue of obesity and its contributions to not just diabetes, but also heart disease, respiratory disorders, cancer, etc.