Terrol Dew Johnson, featured in the "Bad Sugar" segment of UNNATURAL CAUSES, is co-founder of Tohono O'odham Community Action, a community-based organization focused on cultural renewal as key to empowerment and better health. TOCA has four primary program areas: basketweaving, traditional foods, youth/elder outreach and traditional arts and culture. www.tocaonline.org
This video is a Web-exclusive supplement to "Bad Sugar," Episode 4 of "UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" This ground-breaking documentary series looks at how the social, economic and physical environments in which we are born, live, and work profoundly affect our longevity and health. The series broadcast nationally on PBS in spring 2008, and can be bought on DVD from California Newsreel, www.newsreel.org
Visit www.unnaturalcauses.org to learn more.
Hello it is Karine , is it nice to see what you guys do. Keep uo with the good work. I really appraciate the williness you have to keep culture and the health your People. God bless you Terrol and all TOCA members.
karsilva83 1 year ago
i really wish my community understood that we all have to work together as one to keep our community strong it seems well all have gone different ways n our elder need to speak up more because who do we have to teach us the O
odham Himdag anymore? it makes me sad that nonone wants to learn about our ways anymore. n our language is almost gone im not sure who we are without our language
klairDollface22 2 years ago
Excellent video!!!!!!!
freetofinn 3 years ago