Cherokee Nation (Oklahoma). Program title: Cherokee Nation Healthy Nation/Foods Project. The Cherokee Nation is promoting the cultivation, gathering, preparation and preservation of traditional Cherokee foods and traditional Cherokee games to promote health and help prevent type 2 diabetes. Due to dispossession of lands and relocation, many of the traditional Cherokee foods practices have been lost or are practiced by only a small portion of the Cherokee population. Wisdom about health knowledge and practices resides with the elders of the Cherokee Nation. This project is working to retain and disseminate that knowledge.

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