Picture: Pat Taylor, ED of Faces and Voices of Recovery (on the right), Carla Ayres, a Boardmember for Faces and Voices for Recovery (in the middle) and Harlan Pruden

On Saturday, September 27, Harlan Pruden, NE2SS councilmember, joined thousands of individuals and families in recovery, treatment partners and advocates from all fifty states to form a human chain – a living symbol of recovery - across the historic Brooklyn Bridge and marched to a rally at City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan featuring a special solo musical performance by singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright. The Recovery Rally - organized in partnership with the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD) – marks the launch of The Recovery Project, a wide-ranging, multi-year initiative of A&E Network, federal agencies and leading non-profit organizations designed to help raise awareness that addiction is a treatable disease and recovery is possible.

Befitting the enormous interest in the upcoming election, advocacy will be in evidence at this year’s Rally. There will be an Advocacy Tent set up to register voters as part of this year’s Recovery Voices Count Campaign and to encourage rally participants to advocate for policy change. Harlan helped with this effort to register people to vote and helped collect 100’s of names of people that endorsed the “Recovery Bill of Rights.”

Recovery Voices Count is part of a national movement spearheaded by Faces and Voices of Recovery to make it possible for even more of our friends, neighbors and family members to experience long-term recovery from addiction by building recognition of the recovery community as a constituency of consequence.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/common/printerfriendlystory
by: KIM ARCHER
World Staff Writer

A researcher says the prevalence of diabetes in the population is tied to the problem.

American Indians have more strokes than white or black people in the U.S. and are more likely to die after their first stroke, a major national study led by a University of Oklahoma researcher shows.

It’s the largest epidemiologic study of cardiovascular disease in American Indians and the first to detail stroke incidence rates and risk factors for American Indians, said principal investigator Dr. Ying Zhang. Thirteen additional researchers from across the country were authors of the study, which was based at the OU College of Public Health.

The Strong Heart Study will be published next week in the American Heart Association’s journal, Circulation.

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NE2SS member Jan D. Billing is featured in a documentary about her family that will make its premiere at Sundance Film Festival this year. Check it out now:

For more information about the film, please visit www.lostsparrowmovie.com/.

Story from Science Centric | News
http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/article.php?q=08092377
Science Centric - 23 September 2008 14:05 GMT

American Indians have a higher incidence of stroke compared to white and black Americans and their first strokes may be more deadly, according to a study published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

The findings, from the largest longitudinal, population-based study of cardiovascular disease and risk factors in American Indians showed that the stroke incidence rate was 679 per 100,000 person years for American Indians. Previous studies in persons of similar age found the stroke incidence rate 306 per 100,000 person years for whites and 607 per 100,000 person years for blacks.

Moreover, first strokes appear to be more deadly in American Indians, said Ying Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., study lead author and assistant professor at the College of Public Health at the University of Oklahoma Sciences Centre in Oklahoma City. The death rate was 18 percent within one month of stroke and 32 percent within one year of stroke.

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Auditions will be held at the American Indian Community House (AICH) for the Industry Actors’ Showcase on Friday, September 26, from 4 pm to 7 pm and Saturday, September 27, from 12 pm to 3 pm.

Native American actors are encouraged to audition with one comedic monologue and one serious monologue. Actors must have documentation and be registered with Employment & Training Program at AICH. If you do not have an “active” file, please contact Susanne at 212-598-0100 x 221 or svanderlaan@aich.org for intake appointment.

Showcase date is November 10, 2008 and will be presented to agents and casting directors on Theatre Row. Kim Snyder directs. Call Jim at 212-598-0100 x 228 for audition appointment.

Redhawk Native American Arts Council Presents
 Lower Hudson Valley Native American Celebration
Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park
2957 Crompond Rd
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

September 27, 2008 - 11AM - 7PM
grand entrance of dancers 1PM & 4PM
September 28, 2008 - 11AM - 7PM
grand entrance of dancers 1PM & 3PM

Free for children 6 years and under!
$6 young adult/senior
$10 adult

Enjoy Native American Singing, Dancing, Food, Crafts, Educational Programs and More!

Redhawk Arts Council
(718) 686-9297 / (718) 686-0012
Email: redhawkarts@mindspring.com
Websites: www.redhawkcouncil.org
www.myspace.com/redhawkcouncil

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10509841
Study: Cancer rate among American Indians goes undercounted
By Lisa Rosetta
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated:09/19/2008 02:30:38 PM MDT

The cancer burden of American Indians has long been underestimated, according to new research. The incidence rate - or how quickly a disease is spreading in a group - is estimated by dividing the number of new cancer cases by the population.

The numbers plugged into that formula for American Indians have not been accurate, said Charles Wiggins, director of the New Mexico Tumor Registry in Albuquerque. His work was featured in Cancer last month.

“Historically, we believe many [American Indian] cases were undercounted in central cancer registries,” he said. “This has been documented in every registry where we’ve looked.”

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The Bay State Banner

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

There it was, the ever-so-fleeting moment during her speech at the Republican National Convention when vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin paid tribute to her hubby, Todd — her brief mention that he’s of Yup’ik Eskimo background. Todd Palin beamed with pride at the acknowledgement in front of the packed convention crowd and one of the largest TV audiences to ever watch a candidate’s convention speech.But the cheering convention participants and millions of viewers won’t see the same smiles on the faces of scores of other Yup’ik Eskimos. Nor on many other Native Alaskans, who make up nearly 20 percent of Alaska’s population.

A devastating report by the Alaska Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in 2002, “Racism’s Frontier: The Untold Story of Discrimination and Division in Alaska,” painted a picture of decades-long economic misery, discrimination, neglect and alienation for Native Alaskans in Palin’s state.

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You are invited to Mixed Phoenix Theatre Group’s
TUESDAYS IN OCTOBER
play-reading series

RSVP by 5:00 p.m. the day before reading by emailing

mptgroup@yahoo.com

First reading will be begin at 8:00 P.M.on
October 7th at Bar on Avenue A (170 Avenue A, near 11th Street)
Plays to be read are:
Rock or Hard Place
By Cindy Pierre
Director – Robert Gonyo

Hanging Cloud
By Christine Emmert
Director – Dana Panepinto

Broken English
By Nina Ki
Director – Richard Aven

Upcoming readings:

All readings begin at 8:00 p.m.
October 14th: American Indian Community House (11 Broadway, 2nd Fl. in The Circle)
Play to be read:
Our Land
By J. L. Christa
Director – Tony White

October 21st: Playwrights Horizons (416 West 42nd St., 5th Fl., North Room Studio)
Play to be read:
HOMELAND
By Christopher Cartmill
Director – Richard Aven

October 28th: American Indian Community House (11 Broadway, 2nd Fl. in The Circle)
Play to be read:
The Second to Last of the Wobbly Tipplers
By Elanna Stauffer
Director – Steve Elm

For directions to each venue, please visit www.hopstop.com.

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On Saturday, September 13, 2008, Kent Lebsock and Harlan Pruden traveled to the Plimoth Plantation (that’s right:  the site of the “Rock”) to  make a presentation  at the first annual “Out at Plimoth Plantation.”  This all-day event was billed as a gathering specifically for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals, families and friends to enjoy the two living history museums.  Contrary to the mission of the original Plantation founded by the Pilgrims, the idea was to create an atmosphere of acceptance and tolerance, celebrating diversity.

The event was planned and conceived by Paula Peters, a person of the Wampanoag nation who also does double duty as the marketing director for the Plantation.  Additionally, Kent and Harlan were warmly welcomed by Linda Coombs (pictured above with Kent and Harlan), who is the director of the Wampanoag Indigenous Program, and John McDonagh, the Plantation’s executive director and the entire village of Wampanoag people working in the village, his team ensure that the entire site is historically accurate.  The Plantation is not a state park and is privately owned and operated.  It includes many different interactive media tools in a sincere effort to abolish the myth and get at the truth about the English and Wampanoag and other Indigenous nations’ experiences subsequent to 1620.  The Wampanoag village consists of people of that nation interacting with visitors to explain their history and way-of-life in a setting including traditional engineering, construction, gardening and social interaction.  It is truly inspiring as a method of reminding us who we are as well as where we might be going.

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