| dc.description.abstract | We have completed the second year of a three year study for the Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry (ATSDR) to evaluate Native Americans at risk from the consumption of contaminated
Great Lakes fish. The study was an expansion of a previous investigation by Dr. John A. Dellinger
at the Red Cliff reservation near Bayfield, WI on the shore of Lake Superior.
In the present study, investigators are working with numerous Ojibwa reservations throughout the
upper Great Lakes region (Figure 1). These reservations include Grand Portage, MN, Bad River, WI,
Keweenaw Bay, MI, Bay Mills, MI, Grand Traverse, MI, and Lac du Flambeau, WI. The last reservation
is located approximately 100 miles inland from the Great Lakes. All other reservations are on the
shoreline of Lakes Superior or Michigan. Each reservation is located in a relatively rural and
seemingly pristine area of the upper Midwest and most reservations operate commercial fisheries as
well as collecting fish for subsistence living. Therefore, Great Lakes fish are a major part of the
lives of these people. | en_US |
