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...Fort Peck Native American Reservation in Montana will receive a $150,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to fund a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) program geared towards assisting the reservation, according...
...funds an MGH internship for one, preferably Native American, student, providing behavioral- and mental-health-skills training that is not available to the Native American community, according to Dennis Norman, the MGH chief of psychology. He added that the recipient would be able to use these skills at Fort Peck after training...
...regalia and a dream catcher, to share their individual tribe’s tradition and history. “There’s a general misconception of a pan-native American identity,” said April D. Youpee-Roll ’08, a native of the Fort Peck Sioux Tribe in Montana. “But there’s a great deal of diversity among us.” Elijah M. Hutchinson ’06, a native Taino from New York who posed with a fistful of feathers to audience laughter, said he identifies more with...
...whatever the authorities ask of him. He has moved the feeding apparatuses for his flocks - he has 16,000 Naked Neck chickens - inside, but warns that keeping them cooped up won't work. "These birds are genetically suited to being outdoors," he says. "Put them inside and they'll peck each other to death." Laffitte sees consumer anxiety as evidence of how distant the French have become from life on the farm. "People don't like to be reminded that what they're eating was once a living thing, and that getting it to their table is a complicated exercise...
...could argue with a few of Peck's opinions. She regurgitates the conventional wisdom about Safdarjang's Tomb, an 18th century structure of sandstone and marble that looks like the Taj Mahal left in the care of a kid with a red crayon, noting that it "has been considered inferior" to the older Tomb of Humayun. This is, in my opinion, hopelessly wrong. With its elongated onion-dome and red-and-white exterior, the tomb provides a much-needed whimsical touch in a city where so many buildings are solemn. But, a few blips in judgment apart, Peck's effort...