This is not new to our communities. Since the first European stepped foot on our lands, violence against the Native people has not only been allowed, but also celebrated.
Read MoreTo understand the complex and ongoing MMIW crisis one must first admit the current systemic response to violence against Native women is immensely inadequate. Then one must realize the rate at which Tribes are losing their life-giving women is devastating to not just the tribal communities, but to the entire nation as a whole.
Read MoreDebra Marie BlackCrow was born in Wyoming on September 11, 1958 to an Arapaho mother and an Oglala Lakota father. Debra’s mother, Esther Addison BlackCrow, was one of the children that were forced to live in the boarding schools and had to bare witness to the horrors inflicted upon the children by the nuns and priests.
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