During the early tuberculosis outbreak in the late 19th century, there was a concerted marketing campaign to get wealthy white folk who suffered from the disease to relocate to the Southwest. The Southwest was marketed as a place where they could get dry arid air that would help them rehabilitate from the disease. These campaigns served a dual purpose, first to attract whites to move to the territory so that they could more aggressively campaign for statehood.

According to Chasing the Cure in New Mexico: Tuberculosis and the Quest for Health, boosters from the territory promoted the myth that native and indigenous populations were immune to the disease as proof of the benefits of the region. Tragedy pursued as thousands of TB-infected white Americans relocated to New Mexico seeking the benefits of a healthy environment and brought the disease with them. Almost immediately they began to infect the native populations living there. Without an adequate public health infrastructure, the indigenous populations saw increased infections and death rates.

In the 20th century, native American populations confronted a growing disregard for declining conditions among native Americans infected by the disease. Some white Christians pointed to the lack of moral and ethical standards, an underdeveloped work ethic, and sexual promiscuity as the source of the disproportionate infections among native Americans. Deep prejudices about the nature of medical support and those deserving of it, shaped the lack of a targeted medical response to address such a devastating disparity among the tribes.

In 1953 on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. A group of brave indigenous women came together to collectively seek a way to heal their own people. The Lakota Tuberculosis and Health Association was founded by four Lakota grandmothers—Phoebe Downing, Eunice Larrabee, Alfreda Janis Bergin, and Irene Groneau—to combat a tuberculosis outbreak among the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. This grassroots, indigenous-led initiative addressed TB, mental health, and alcoholism, contributing to the development of community and heritage based programs to address health disparities.

What a weekend!!☀️☀️ We hope you all got out and enjoyed some much needed sun.

This week we are going to test your speed and overall fitness. There are four challenges in total to be done over the next week🥵

First challenge is - 15 x 30 meter (sprints) to be completed twice.

Second challenge is - 12 x 40 meter (sprints) to be completed twice.

Third challenge is - 10 x 60 meter (sprints) to be completed three times.

last but not least the forth challenge is - 8 x 70 meter (sprints) to be completed three times.

This challenge is meant to push you to your limits by testing you both physically and mentally.

"And doc, I now right to you to tell you, that you sent 2 nearses here to see Katie MiCarty and I would like to know, if you can tell who sent you a letter about my doarter…If they wanted to say any thing about her why, was they not lady, or man enueff to say some thing to me a bout it, doctor…waited a half day and then she got so bad that I had to bring her home, I would like you to tell your’s nearses to please not bother a bout my business, for there is only one cure for my child and that is in heaven."