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February Collective Care Through the CRC & PACEs Movement: The Way Forward for Civil & Human Rights is Trauma-Informed

Nationally recognized days of awareness remind us of important civil and human rights movements led by Black and African-American communities and social justice advocates. February puts leadership, education, access, justice, policy, and governance under the spotlight. Through a PACEs science lens, this month is an opportunity to consider trauma-informed transformation through a PACEs science lens as the way forward.

Growing Resilient Communities Embraces the New Year: Welcome CRC Fellows, Grow with Google Partnership Announcement & Unveiling New Interactive Tools

To prepare for the year ahead, we have a few very special announcements we’re excited to share. First, we’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the 700+ community champions, facilitators, managers, and advocates in our COOP and Growing Resilient Communities program for your commitment.

Healing Centered Futures through the CRC & the PACEs Movement: Announcing the CRC Fellowship, Celebrating CRC Graduates, and #GivingTuesday Campaign

Something amazing keeps happening in our CRC Accelerator program that we want to shout out from the rooftops this December. Thanks to our committed participants, the number of CRC graduates keeps increasing! The number of graduates has increased by 15x this year. As we head into a new year, w e are grateful for the unique role CRC Accelerator participants have played in expanding the PACEs movement through the willingness to explore healing-centered practices through a PACEs science lens.

The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story and the Lasting Damage They Imbue (smithsonianmag.com)

Chief Ousamequin shares a peace pipe with Plymouth Governor John Carver. California State Library To read more Claire Bugos' article, please click here. In Thanksgiving pageants held at schools across the United States, children don headdresses colored with craft-store feathers and share tables with classmates wearing black construction paper hats. It’s a tradition that pulls on a history passed down through the generations of what happened in Plymouth: local Native Americans welcomed the...

Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving, Settler Colonialism & Continuing Indigenous Resistance (democracynow.org)

To listen to the 16-minute interview with Lakota historian Nick Estes, please click here. Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future . “This history … is a continuing history of genocide, of settler colonialism and, basically, the founding myths of this country,” says Estes, who is a co-founder of the Indigenous resistance group The Red Nation and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.

National Congress of American Indians Establishes Foundation to Increase Philanthropic Funding in Indian Country (nativenewsonline.net)

Greg Masten (Yurok), President of the newly formed NCAI Foundation. (photo/Levi Rickert) To read more of Levi Rickert's article, please click here. Last Wednesday, November 15, which was National Philanthropy Day, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) announced the launch of its new philanthropic arm, the NCAI Foundation (NCAIF) . The announcement came on the third day of the NCAI’s 80th Annual Convention and Marketplace in New Orleans. “Today marks a pivotal moment in our ongoing...

The case for decoupling the Thanksgiving holiday from US history altogether (upworthy.com)

Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash It's time to make Thanksgiving purely about giving gratitude. To read more of Annie Reneau's article, please click here. As families across the U.S. start prepping for family gatherings and feasts of turkey and mashed potatoes, people are engaging in the usual debates over the origins of Thanksgiving . Kids in American schools are learning various versions of the Pilgrims in Plymouth story, most of which are overly simplistic and many of which are flat-out...

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