August 8, 2020

Students use 'power of storytelling' to highlight health inequities

High schoolers at virtual Digital Media Arts Camp explore culturally based solutions, vibrant work taking place in Indigenous communities
Too often, mainstream news stories about health challenges in Indian Country focus on a “deficit-based narrative — just the statistics,” says Sasha Houston Brown, who works for the Center of Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.
“It’s like, here are the diabetes statistics in Indian Country, and here are the COVID deaths. And yes, that is abso