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10 Community Transformation in the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan
10 Community Transformation in the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan
Pages 73-80
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Community Transformation initiative has been strategically expanding and building upon successful cross-cutting strategies to improve health and reduce disparities among communities of Sault Tribe members living in the Sault Tribe service area of Michigan's eastern Upper Peninsula. (Norkoli)
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Marie Tribe's Community Transformation Grant; Shannon Laing, program coordinator for tribal health and wellness in the Center for Healthy Communities at the Michigan Public Health Institute; and Sault Tribe planning and development director, Jeff Holt, who also chairs the Sault Ste. Marie Economic and Development Commission.
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The collaboration brought the tribal transportation planner together with city engineers, downtown development authority directors, and other stakeholders to look at transportation infrastructure, conduct walking audits and workshops, and create a nonmotorized transportation plan covering the seven-county service area. "A vision was created not just about increasing physical activity but how we could make walkable, bikeable, vibrant communities," a move that local governments saw as offering economic advantages, Norkoli said.
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"The community context is very important," Laing emphasized. For the Sault Tribe, contextual factors that have heavily influenced the successes and challenges of the STCTG initiative include the sociocultural and political environment, the local geography history, social norms, and the broader history that American Indians have experienced in the United States.
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The survey results showed that rural areas and urban "clusters" differ in their adult obesity rates, physical activity levels, and consumption of fruits and vegetables. The survey also provided representative data for the first time on tribal children's daily physical activity; screen time; and consumption of produce, junk food, and sugary beverages.
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Whereas for many years the tribe lacked the budget to maintain staff in key positions, the federal community health grants made it possible to hire a grants project coordinator and four local community coordinators; around the same time, the tribe hired a transpor
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The tribe worked to create formal agreements with local governments, and tribal members provided more input for local decisionmaking processes by serving on committees and advisory boards. "Now that we are at the table, we can afford to speak up, and we are not afraid to," Holt said.
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