Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (Kansas) Program title: Return to a Healthy Past. The Prairie Band of Potawatomie Nation is establishing garden plots, identifying wild plant foods, providing traditional hunted foods donated by community hunters, and developing gardening clubs to promote gardening as physical activity. Community walks and runs are part of traditional foods festivals. The program is developing a traditional foods database and traditional foods book for use by community members. Traditional language classes are focusing on traditional foods and traditional foods presentations are being provided at powwows, the Boys and Girls Club, and the Elder Center.

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