generational trauma

“This is the way we create now — we come together and use art as ceremony.”

“Several women in politics that Amra and I have interviewed indicate their greatest strength is in listening. They learn what the issues are, talk to people about what might resolve those issues, and figure out how to make it work.”

I felt I had no choice but to address the violence that has for too long destroyed so many families in Minnesota and across Turtle Island.

Policies are good, but educating about the perception of Native women in society needs to happen.

They say if you have a secret, you should tell it to a willow.

What I want our communities to talk about: how generational trauma affects our financial wellbeing. We can learn and unlearn traumatic events that might be affecting us today, unconsciously sabotaging our own wellbeing.

Confronting that history helped me understand that my mom shared a story with many thousands of Native people who had been forcibly placed for adoption.

TRIGGER WARNING: This is a story, among other things, about childhood sexual abuse My ancestry is a crazy quilt —

Many Native people believe that intergenerational trauma for all people is not simply a psychological concept, but a physical one — that traumatic events in our ancestors live on in our bodies, blood, and bones.

My work in the world was carved by unforeseen circumstances. Through a process of understanding, I came to my work