Download a photo of Dr. Heather J. Peters, Dr. Teresa Peterson and Amanda Anderson.
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GRANITE FALLS, Minn. — On the next Compass program, Pioneer PBS talks with wellness practitioners and people providing cultural support as the novel coronavirus spreads. The special will air Thursday, April at 9 p.m. and will rebroadcast on Sunday, April 12 at 12:30 p.m. It will be viewable online at www.pioneer.org/compass after the original airing.
The special will replace the regularly scheduled episode, “Small Business Assistance,” which can be streamed online at www.pioneer.org/compass and on the free PBS video app.
Compass talks with the authors of “Developing an Indigenous Measure of Overall Health and Well-Being: The Wicozani Instrument,” Dr. Teresa R. Peterson, an independent consultant cultivating Indigenous education across communities, and Dr. Heather J. Peters, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota-Morris. They talked about their research surrounding wicozani, a Dakota word for overall health and wellbeing, and the wicozani tool. According to their published paper, “A Native community developed the Wicozani Instrument, a nine-item self-report measure, to assess overall health and well-being from an Indigenous epistemology. The Wicozani Instrument measures mental, physical, and spiritual health and their importance to an individual’s quality of life.” They talk about the interconnectedness of the individual’s mental, physical and spiritual health and how the tool can be used to self-assess wellbeing.
In an interview with Eileen O’Keefe, the program director of Dakota Wicohan in Morton, O’Keefe explains how the nonprofit is pivoting to provide their cultural programming to youth and community members using a digital platform. O’Keefe also is planning to use the wicozani tool with youth to help them monitor their overall health and wellbeing.
Luther C. Talks produced a PSA for the Lower Sioux Government Center which will air called, “We Are Stronger Together.”Talks is the director of Human Services for the Cansayapi (Lower Sioux Indian Community) and a combat photographer/videographer with the Minnesota National Guard. He is a citizen of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation. When creating the concept for the video, Talks said that he wanted to convey safe positive messaging. “Everything about this video is strategic in safe messaging,” Talks said. “I wanted to inspire and motivate the community, families and individuals to stop the spread of COVID-19. We all have a role and responsibility.”
Finally, Ashely Hanson of Granite Falls talks about the Yes! House, the City Artist in Residence program and how it’s important to include artists in all aspects of governmental decision-making in Pioneer PBS’s new, experimental digital series, The View From Here.
Viewers with story ideas and issues they would like to see discussed on Compass are encouraged to contact Pioneer PBS via email at yourtv@pioneer.org or call the station at 1-800-726-3178.
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