Hihanna was’te! My name is Shelley Eagleman-Bointy. Welcome to my blog, Wozani Was’te*. I started this blog with the encouragement of friends and family, hoping to provide a source of health/wellness information and motivation from an Indigenous/Native/Dakota Winyan perspective. I want to share my personal and professional experiences in the health and wellness arena, and my family’s experiences as we work towards good health (thus the “Seeking Good Health” name for this blog).

I am a mom to 3 beautiful daughters, Samantha (26 – my bonus child), Shelby (9), Sara (7), I have a bonus son in OK, Joey (in his 30’s…lol), and have been married for 19 years to my companion Joe B. We are a powwow family, I have been a fancy shawl dancer since the age of 5. I am enrolled with the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Montana and descend from the Little Traverse Bay Band of Ottawa Indians in Michigan. I am blessed to have 2 healthy parents and an older brother and younger sister. True to our ways, I have countless family, adopted sons, daughters, grandkids, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and grandparents all over Indian country. I earned my MSW at the University of Kansas and have worked in the education/public health field for 13 years. My area of interest and expertise is in the field of type 2 diabetes in Native populations, and I currently teach a culturally-tailored diabetes education course at Haskell Indian Nations University.

I love to cook, especially recipes my mom cooked for us growing up. I have taken on learning how to cook our true traditional foods this past winter. I love to run, although my diagnosis of hip osteo-arthritis makes that a little more challenging these days. I love to sew pow-wow outfits for my family and friends, love to bead, read, text and harass my friends, watch movies, and I’m addicted to “Chopped” and cleaning/organization shows like “Clean House” and “Clean Sweep”. I love to Facebook about my favorite subjects….my girls “The Swirlies”, and posting pow-wow results. Lol. I am slowly figuring out Twitter and SnapChat and Instagram. I am determined to start a garden as safe food sources and sustainability is quickly becoming a serious interest.  I am truly a nerd at heart…I get excited about stuff like ordering a break-maker or or a food dehydrator, figuring out a better way to organize stuff, or coming up with a new smoothie recipe all by myself. Finding the time to indulge my nerd-like tendencies is a challenge. And now I’m adding blogging to the mix.

Thanks for reading this….even though it looks like my bio/resume or a match.com profile. Now I have to slow my spinning mind and decide what I am going to blog about first!

*Thank you to Ramey Growing Thunder for coming up with the name for this blog, and to Mike LaFromboise for encouraging me to use our Dakota language for the blog’s name.

Disclaimer: I really have no idea what I am doing, so please be patient with me while I figure out how to add tags, make my page look decent, etc. Pidamaya in advance!