Display linking cultural life to health opening at Fort Belknap

Havre Daily News staff

A traveling display discussing the link between community and tradition to health and illness in Native cultures has a grand opening set for Wednesday at Aaniiih Nakoda College on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.

The ribbon cutting and grand opening of “Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness” is set to start at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Room 213 of Returning Buffalo on the college campus.

Speakers will talk about topics including diversity, equity and inclusion in health care.

The event is free and open to the public.

The display, which is traveling to 104 locations between 2016 and 2020, will be housed at Aaniiih Nakoda through July 28.

The exhibit is free and open to the public during regular library hours at the college. To learn more and view content from the exhibition, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices. For more information about the local showing of the exhibition, contact Eva English at 353-2607, ext. 311, or [email protected].

Watch for more about the display on Tuesday’s Health Page in the Havre Daily News.