SEQUIM, Wash. (AP) – A tribal linguist has determined the translation used for the past century for the town of Sequim – long believed by many to mean “quiet waters” – is wrong.The correct translation, it turns out, is a “place for going to shoot,” a reference to the Sequim-Dungeness Valley’s once great elk and [...]
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — UC Davis School of Medicine researchers will train Native American communities in Northern California to develop and implement culturally appropriate interventions to improve their health by decreasing obesity and type-2 diabetes, through a $1 million research grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. [...]
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