Formed in 2016 during the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, Mazaska Talks seeks to leverage economic power to fight repression of Indigenous rights and the desecration of Mother Earth.
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Mikayla is a born storyteller, finding the inspiration for her stories in both the real world and the created worlds weaving them into the dreams and possibilities we all need to hear.
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Nakani is a word that comes from the Tlingit language. Nakani is defined as a person, or entity, which serves as a connector and/ or go between for different people, places, and cultures.
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In many ways, westernized medical practices are lacking in regard to cultural competency, especially towards Indigenous people and traditional practices. Stereotypes and misconceptions are reinforced by overworked and understaffed professionals.
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Through hosting drum circles for healing, to providing medicines, and grass-roots organizing Unkitawa exemplifies the spirit of giving and selflessness. They have grown from one man’s good intentions into an organization recognized for their selfless acts.
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Goodbye is never easy
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One hundred years later, after the Treaty of Walla Walla was signed, tribes watched their sacred rivers and waterfalls being dammed one after another. The fishing wars had begun as the American government tried to take away treaty rights from Northwest tribes.
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Finally, a book is written from the heart of Indigenous endurance, highlighting the strength of spirit we pass with love from one generation to the next generation. This story is written with a bright and beautiful spirit leading to the truth of colonialism’s monstrous intent and with their very real impacts woven throughout this thoughtful story, Christopher, the Ogre Cologre it’s Over! by Dr. Oriel Maria Siu.
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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.
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Every life form on our planet has power and absorbs energy, our Mother Earth included. This energy comes from the sun and is absorbed or consumed by the life thriving on our planet even after they are dead and buried.
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This is not a Native issue, it is a world issue, the outcome of this fight will affect all life on our beautiful planet.
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Shantel Hayes has been fighting for her mother and sister’s right to justice since their murder on March 10th, 1997. Shantel was just a child when she lost her mother. Her mother and baby sister’s murder forced Shantel to grow up fast. Shantel has had to fight a hard uphill and painful battle to keep their murderer behind bars.
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It hurts my heart hearing about and watching people suffer. Dying without loved ones feels cold and cruel, for the ones left behind and to those passing. Still, this is where we are because of all the actions taken under falsified and tainted gossip passed off as truth.
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What impressed me about these young people is none of them let their fear cripple them. Instead working with Sarah Sense-Wilson as volunteers they reached out to help and protect others. They came together as a collective to protect our Elders and families.
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The California Parole Board along with Governor Gavin Newson have agreed to release the murderer of an indigenous woman.
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On October 21, 2016, Muckleshoot tribal citizen Renee Davis was shot and killed by King County Sheriffs who were conducting a welfare check in her home. Renee was pregnant at the time of the shooting. Her family continues to demand justice.
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Debra 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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On March 10th, 1997 Shantel Haynes, her sister, and two younger brothers lost their loving mother in the most brutal and cruelest way possible. Debra Marie Blackcrow and her unborn daughter Samara were murdered.
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