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SDCOE and CIEFA's Native Ways of Knowing Book List: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Classrooms and Libraries To help educators and parents choose high-quality Indigenous authored books, the San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE) and California Indian Education (CIEFA) have designed this Native Ways of Knowing Book List: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Classrooms and Libraries. These books have been vetted by Native American scholars, CIEFA, and SDCOE staff. Please consider adding these...

PHOTO: Courtesy of IllumiNative To read more of KC Baker's article, please click here. American Genocide: The Crimes of Native American Boarding Schools spotlights the atrocities Indigenous children endured for decades at these schools — and how survivors are trying to heal From 1819 through the 1970s, tens of thousands of Indigenous children were removed from their homes and placed in institutions across the nation where they were housed, educated and clothed. But they were also forced to...

Demonstrators outside the US supreme court in November. Joe Biden said: ‘I stand alongside tribal nations as they celebrate today’s supreme court decision.’ Photograph: Mariam Zuhaib/AP To read more of Maya Yang's article, please click here. Native Americans, tribal leaders and top Democrats hailed the US supreme court’s decision on Thursday to uphold federal protections for Native American children against removal from their tribal communities for fostering or adoption. Following the...

To read more of the SOURCE article, please click here. Local Native Americans are about to complete the longest indigenous prayer run in U.S. history. “Run with the Sun” is the brainchild of Lakeside resident Bobby Wallace, a member of the Barona Band of Mission Indians, in hopes of protecting waters across America. “It’s been awesome making changes in people’s minds about water everywhere,” Wallace told East County Magazine in an interview. “We started running, traveling with the water over...

July is a time to celebrate all summer has to offer by building bridges and innovating with community to get to the heart of trauma-informed awareness and resilience building. This month, we’ve added new July dates to the summer 2023 *CRC* curriculum—but that’s only half of the good news. Last year, the CRC began as a pilot program. Now that it's evolved, what better time to bring accelerator participants together in a PACEs Connection CRC community than the summer? We are proud to announce...

Visit the website: Not Our Native Daughters In the whispers of the wind, a tale unfolds, Of missing souls, their stories left untold, A haunting lament, through the ages it flies, Of indigenous women and children, lost in the skies. Mystic breezes carry their names on their breath, Echoing across lands, whispering the depth, Of sorrow and loss, of shattered dreams, Where silence reigns, and justice teems. The wind's mournful wail, a solemn refrain, For the daughters and sisters, who can't...

Fallen tree trunks and branches cover a road during the Oak Fire near Midpines, northeast of Mariposa, Calif., on July 23, 2022. David McNew/AFP via Getty Images To read more of Chloe Veltman's article, please click here. The Oak Fire, which burned roughly 20,000 acres west of Yosemite National Park last summer, was devastating to the area's Indigenous tribes — including the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation . The tribe is headquartered in Mariposa, California, a small town in the Sierra Nevada...

Awareness about health outcomes are as much about the long-term impact caused by adverse childhood experiences as they are by positive childhood experiences. By providing education on trauma-informed awareness and resilience building frameworks, the CRC Accelerator certification is a tool for both.

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...

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.