Event Details

Date: August 27, 2023
Time: 9:00am - 3:00pm 
Location: Park Point Beach House & surrounding areas

​The American Indian Community Housing Organization and the Center of American Indian & Minority Health have partnered together to host our 2nd annual Mino Bimaadizi (Be Well) Community Science and Medicine Fair. FREE and open to the public.


Brief agenda: 
8 am             Fun Walk/Run Registration
9 am             Fun Walk/Run 
11 am            Anishinaabe Cultural Ceremony
11 - 2 pm      Community Science & Medicine Fair
12 pm           Feast
1 pm             Learn and Participate in Traditional Lacrosse
2 pm            Indigenous Improv Comedian Isiah Yazzie (Diné)
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Meet Indigenous & BIPOC
​medical professionals

Anticipate fun, interactive, and educational activities with Indigenous and BIPOC medical professionals working in Duluth, Superior, Cloquet, and on the Fond du Lac reservation.

Arne Vainio - Family Medicine Physician
Aurora LeMay - Dentist
Charity Reynolds - Family Medicine Physician
C.W. Hall - Family Medicine Physician
Haley Anderson - Dentist
Mary Owen - Family Medicine Physician
Max Miranda - Gastroenterologist
Sheila Scheuer - Clinical Pharmacist
Verna Thornton - OB-GYN Physician

Fun Run

2 Fun Run Options:
  • 5K or 3.1 miles - Park Point Beach Trail
  • 0.62 mile (one loop at Park Point grassy area by volleyball court)
Starting location at the end of Park Point. T-shirts and water bottles provided to the first 75 participants. We will do our best to accommodate preferred t-shirt sizes. 

Registration/Check-in: 8am to 8:45am

5K/Fun Run Start: 9am

Liability Waiver will be provided upon check-in the day of​

Traditional Lacrosse

Baaga’adowaanaatigoon – Lacrosse
 
Thomas Howes, Fond du Lac Ojibwe tribal member, will teach participants a hands-on skills session with game rules and then the rest of the time will be set aside for playing the “Creator’s Game.” We advise people to be at the start time of lacrosse at 1 pm. This is free and open to all. It is a very active – fast paced game with wooden traditional sticks and so we will have waivers for people to sign at the event before the games begin. Join us!

Indigenous Comedian
Isiah Yazzie is a 28-year-old Navajo comedian born and raised in Gallup, New Mexico. He started performing stand-up, sketch, and improv comedy in 2014. Living in the "American/Western" society has helped Isiah write jokes that point out the duality of life as an Indigenous comedian. He has attended The Second City in Chicago and Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. In 2016, he co-founded Rez City Improv with Ernest David Tsosie. His comedy includes politics, social observations, and the duality of Native life. You can read about his journey from starting at Second City to performing in casinos, and empty restaurants in "We Had A Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy," written by best-selling author Kliph Nesteroff. Isiah teamed up with Harry Gantz to start Pick Up New Mexico, which was created to inform voters about issues and current elections in New Mexico.

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