Health and Wellness

The Trauma of Loss: Singing for Grief in “Watch Over Me”

Talon Bazille Ducheneaux/ShootsTheEnemy

In today's post, Talon Bazille Ducheneaux/ShootsTheEnemy, founder of Wonahun Was’te’ Records, shares about grief in Native American communities and how one special song came to life in the wake of a p...

September 6, 2019

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Community Outreach

Native Hope Leaders’ Society “Siouxper Elite” Peer to Peer Impact

Native Hope

Native Hope Leaders’ Society member Ramez wants to create a positive impact on his friends and classmates from his native community. That’s why Ramez volunteers his time to teach youth and families to...

August 21, 2019

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Community Outreach

Coming Together to Build a Field for Native Youth

Native Hope

Early this spring, a group of Native parents in a remote community on the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Reservation began to dream about a baseball field for their community. They knew they needed healthy ac...

August 6, 2019

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Education

Lose the Language, Lose the Culture

Native Hope

Imagine losing the ability to question, to state, to joke, to think. Language is the core of expression and offers a unique view of the world. It encompasses a history—the history of a people and thei...

August 1, 2019

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Education

Music Is Medicine: The Journey and Conception of Wonahun Was’te’ Records

Talon Bazille Ducheneaux/ShootsTheEnemy

Special thanks to Talon Bazille Ducheneaux/ShootsTheEnemy for sharing his story below. When I began my journey as a “hip hop artist” I honestly didn’t think it would take me anywhere. I was highly inf...

July 30, 2019

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Health and Wellness

A Place to Grow

Native Hope

“If you build it, they will come.” An old adage, but according to the Crow Creek District [CCD] Representative Carla Pickner, a true one. Last summer, she saw the community come together day after day...

July 17, 2019

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Community Outreach

Summers on the Rez: Community through Baseball

Native Hope

Summertime comes with familiar sights, sounds, and smells. The feeling of the sun baking your skin. The fireworks on the Fourth of July. The thwack of bat on ball when you head to the local baseball g...

July 10, 2019

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Community Outreach

Connection and Empowerment for Native People: The Teachings of the Bow and Arrow

Native Hope

Most Americans think of the bow and arrow as a tool for hunting or sports. But writer and craftsman Joseph Marshall III has always seen the bow and arrow as a source of spiritual guidance. In Lakota c...

June 21, 2019

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Community Outreach

Purity in Pine Ridge: The Native American Bow and Arrow

Native Hope

Google “Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.” The search results may reveal the following words: broken, failing, suicide, forgotten, and third-world. However, Native Hope knows that Pine Ridge is so much m...

June 7, 2019

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The Trauma of Loss: Singing for Grief in “Watch Over Me”

Native Hope Leaders’ Society “Siouxper Elite” Peer to Peer Impact

Coming Together to Build a Field for Native Youth

Lose the Language, Lose the Culture

Music Is Medicine: The Journey and Conception of Wonahun Was’te’ Records

A Place to Grow

Summers on the Rez: Community through Baseball

Connection and Empowerment for Native People: The Teachings of the Bow and Arrow

Purity in Pine Ridge: The Native American Bow and Arrow

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