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Billings Urban Indian Health and Wellness Center hosted a month-long filmmaking camp for Indigenous students.
Cadence Rondeaux-Hickman is 17 years old. She and her team of other young filmmakers have been working for four weeks to produce their first film.
“We chose our project on the MMIW, Missing Indigenous Women. And it s an experimental piece. It s to represent those and bring awareness that they re still out there somewhere and we, we need to remember them,” Rondeaux-Hickman says.
Taylar Stagner Cadence Rondeaux-Hickman, Billings Urban Indian Health and Wellness Center/Native Connections film camp, July 2021.
Billings Urban Indian Health and Wellness focuses on a holistic approach to healing
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BILLINGS - Last week, we took you downtown for Smudge the Streets, an ancient ritual used to cleanse the soul in many Native American cultures.
It was just one step for Urban Indian Health and Wellness on their journey to help a growing community heal, and thrive. The urban population, it s a growing population. A lot of people don t know this but the urban population is larger than the population from the reservations, Billings Urban Indian Health and Wellness s CEO Leonard Smith said.
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Editor s note: This story was originally published by Kaiser Health News Jan. 4, 2021. Republished with permission.
Funeral director Kevin Spitzer has been overwhelmed with covid-related deaths in the small city of Aberdeen, South Dakota.
He and his two colleagues at the Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home have been working 12-15 hours a day, seven days a week, to keep up with the demand in the community of 26,000. The funerals are sparsely attended, which would have been unthinkable before the pandemic.
“We had a funeral for a younger man one recent Saturday, and not 20 people came, because most everyone was just afraid,” he said.