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

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...

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    Purity in Pine Ridge: The Native American Bow and Arrow

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    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...

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    June 7, 2019

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    Native American Culture and Yoga: A Healing Partnership

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    All great cultures have traditions and teachings that offer truth for our lives today. Whether these traditions and teachings are spiritual, philosophical, or physical, they all serve to connect prese...

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    May 31, 2019

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    The Untold Story: Living the Dakota 38 Memorial

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    The following post was written by Native Hope team member, Alexis, after her experience running in the Dakota 38 Memorial in December 2018. This post is the first of a series of stories that are desig...

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    April 2, 2019

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    Native Hope Leaders’ Society- The Importance of Support

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    Most Native youth don’t get the support they need from families or others, and some families don’t encourage their kids. The Pygmalion effect helps explain this: people tend to perform at the level th...

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    March 29, 2019

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    A Trip to the UN: Healing Art Practices and the Transformation of Story

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    It's not every day that you get to share your story with one of the world's most powerful organizations and add your voice to the global conversation. On March 12th, 2019, Alexis Woksape Ole Winyan (S...

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    March 15, 2019

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    Building a Culture of Endurance: A Video Interview with Dirk Whitebreast

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    The day Dirk Whitebreast lost his sister was the last day he touched alcohol. A member of the Sac and Fox tribe (Meskwaki Nation), Whitebreast and his two sisters were raised by his grandmother and gr...

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    March 7, 2019

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    What the Lakota Nation Invitational Means for Native American Youth

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    The year is 1973. On Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, members of the American Indian Movement are engaged in an extended protest and stand-off with m...

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    February 15, 2019

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    Wayne William Snellgrove, Man of Two Mothers

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    The folllowing biographical story was written by Charlotte Miller and shared with Native Hope by Wayne Smoke-Snellgrove. Wayne William Snellgrove stepped off the tiny duel prop plane in Wadena, Saskat...

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    January 9, 2019

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    In the Field with Native Hope: December

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    As 2018 winds to a close, we're back with one more "In the Field" post! We love taking some time at the end of each month to share with you about the work we have done in our community and throughout ...

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    December 21, 2018

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