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 The
Native Dancer Diabetes Education Video Game is a project under development
by the North Dakota State University (NDSU)
Archaeology Technologies Lab (ATL)
and is supported by the White
Earth Reservation Tribal Council. The ATL investigates the use of technology
and three-dimensional visualization in areas of research and education for such
topics as archaeology, anthropology, and cultural preservation. Native Dancer
was taken up by the ATL as part of its cultural preservation mission because of
the project's potential for preserving and teaching the value of powwow dancing
to Native American children. The project is being developed in close cooperation
with White Earth Tribal Council Health Services and the White Earth Diabetes Program.
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 There
is an epidemic of Type 2, Adult-Onset diabetes occurring worldwide, but industrializing
countries and disadvantaged populations in industrialized countries have the highest
prevalence and show the largest increases. In the United States, Native American
peoples are afflicted by this disease in ever increasing numbers. Cross-cultural
miscommunication between patients and healthcare professionals often inhibit the
adoption of healthier behaviors.
Diabetes
epidemic in Native Peoples...
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 Native
Dancer is a diabetes education and exercise computer game designed to be culturally
relevant to native youth. Unlike traditional video games that encourage sedentary
behavior and physical inactivity, Native Dancer will incorporate the emerging
genre of video games that involve physical exercise. An example of this is the
famous game, Dance Dance Revolution (DDR).
Read
more about DDR...
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 This
proof-of-concept
project focuses on the children and adolescents
of the Ojibwa-White Earth Band, who reside
largely on the White Earth Reservation located
in northwestern Minnesota, and where Type
2 diabetes is becoming more and more prevalent
in both children and adolescents. We will
be working closely with Mr. Monte L. Fox,
Diabetes
Project Director for the White Earth
Reservation Tribal Council (WERTC). Seed money
for initial development of Native Dancer has
been provided by the WERTC.
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* This video
download contains a motion tracking error that begins about half way through the
video presentation. We are working to put up a version with this error removed.
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