Due to the awful findings in the grounds of some Indian Boarding Schools this year I thought that these articles I used on the 2013 website should be again be shown.I have updated the page to remove any that are no longer active and have added those that are newer and active pages.

Indian Boarding Schools (Historical and Intergenerational Trauma,)

The links below can also help with the Intergenerational Trauma

Native Americam Boarding Schools YouTube video	White Bison, Inc. Culturally-Based Healing to Indigenous People
Remembering Our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience Heard Museum	Residential Schools- The Hiroshima of the Indian Nations
Haskell Indian Nations University Remembrance In the cemetery, stand 103 old army-issue, unpolished marble headstones that mark the death of young Native people who died between 1885 and 1913. Most of those died at about ten years of age. The youngest and first death was Harry White Wolf who died at 6 months old. As one walks among the unnaturally serene stones, an image that stays with you is not only the names and brief lifespan of these young people, but that in this small half-acre space, thirty-seven tribes are represented. Ponca lies next to Pawnee and Miami next to Navajo. The above is an excerpt from the work of Stephen A. Colmant, MA, LPC, Lahoma Shultz, MS, LPC (Creek Seminole) and Andrea Dudley, MA (Cherokee), titled Haskell Cemetery: A Symbol for Healing and Growt	Video - The Wellbriety Journey to Forgiveness From 2011 Documentary on the Abuses of the Indian Boarding Schools. Discusses the intergenerational trauma in native communities. This documentary is over an hour long, and gives information about how these Historical and Intergenerational Traumas can be healed. It is a MUST SEE. (Gloria) The "Wellbriety Movement: Journey of Forgiveness" is now available on Youtube, www.whitebison.org , or free on DVD. Email info@whitebison.org for DVD, include mailing address. There is no charge for this DVD. It is hoped that it will be shared by everyone who sees it.

The Missing Women

Today in 2021, This subject has arisen again with more interest being shown to it. Many of our sisters have been abducted, assaulted, murdered, and so many are still missing. The organizations below are all dealing with this in their own way, trying to get awareness out about this terrible thing happening to the Indigenous women of the past 30+ years.

Anna Mae Aquash, a Canadian-born Mi’kmaq Indian activist may well have been one of the first. On November 25, 1975 she was found to be missing. For three months her whereabouts were unknown. On February 24, 1976, her remains were discovered on the Pine Ridge Reservation. She had been shot.

The REDress Project

A visual art installation project with strong ties to the community and broader public, The REDress Project is based on an aesthetic response to the more than 500 missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada. Drawing attention to the gendered and racialized nature of violent crimes against Aboriginal women the installation seeks to evoke a presence through the marking of absence.
The installation here is a precis of a larger, outdoor work in which more than 500 red dresses will be installed in an accessible public site, in an effort at once to remind and incite, to witness and represent.

Walking With Our Sisters

Each pair of moccasin tops are intentionally not sewn into moccasins to represent the unfinished lives of the women and girls.

This project is about these women, paying respect to their lives and existence on this earth. They are not forgotten. They are sisters, mothers, daughters, cousins, aunties, grandmothers, friends and wives. They have been cared for, they have been loved, and they are missing.

Do check out these organizations, and others that deal with this problem, and please be careful out there.