Education and Youth Empowerment

Native Hope's Fellowships for 2020-2021

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Native Americans built their communities on the idea of “mutual support” and friendship. For centuries the Native tribes of this continent survived on networking, not only by living in harmony with ea...

May 17, 2020

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Education and Youth Empowerment

A Mother's Day tribute: My matrilineal strength and the creative path

Tyisha Mitchell

Before my earthly arrival, my grandmother, mother, and closest aunt were set in their unique passions. Being born into a life surrounded by strong female role models. I, like many Diné young women, gr...

May 10, 2020

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Stories of Hope

Celebrating the power of Native women and Native mothers

Native Hope

The Legend of the White Buffalo Woman One summer a long time ago, the seven sacred council fires of the Lakota Sioux came together and camped. The sun was strong, and the people were starving, for the...

May 9, 2020

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Culture and Identity

Native American Animals: The Turtle (Keya) Symbolizes Grandmother Earth (Unci Maka)

Native Hope

Turtle–Keya The turtle is a sacred creature among Native American tribes. Each tribe’s cultural view of the turtle/tortoise, is slightly different; however, the deeper meaning remains the same: the tu...

April 13, 2020

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Education and Youth Empowerment

Does basketball provide a sense of inner peace and purpose?

Brandon Ecoffey

It never took much effort to find a game of basketball on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. If the weather was decent, all you needed was a ball and a hoop. When the sound of the ball slapping the pa...

March 13, 2020

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Culture and Identity

Live to Tell Podcast Seeks to Address Topics Kept in the Margins

Native Hope

While January is coming to a close, we cannot forget that each day Indigenous women and children are disappearing at alarming rates. Prevention is key and the best prevention is awareness. If you see ...

January 30, 2020

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Culture and Identity

Building Strong Women

Joanne Lewis

Communality, it is a word borrowed from our Indigenous relatives of the South. It is defined as “the state or condition of being communal. A feeling or spirit of cooperation and belonging arising from...

January 28, 2020

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Culture and Identity

On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota men publicly executed in Mankato, MN

Alexis Estes

After Native Hope team member ran the Dakota 38 Memorial Run in December 2018, she wrote this post. Earlier this month, we shared a post about this year's (2019) Memorial Ride, so we thought it import...

December 26, 2019

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Culture and Identity

Changing Culture through Community Engagement

Native Hope

This week's blog shares updates from members of the Native Hope team about the ways we have been working in local communities to engage young people in Native culture and bring awareness to the beauty...

December 13, 2019

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Native Hope's Fellowships for 2020-2021

A Mother's Day tribute: My matrilineal strength and the creative path

Celebrating the power of Native women and Native mothers

Native American Animals: The Turtle (Keya) Symbolizes Grandmother Earth (Unci Maka)

Does basketball provide a sense of inner peace and purpose?

Live to Tell Podcast Seeks to Address Topics Kept in the Margins

Building Strong Women

On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota men publicly executed in Mankato, MN

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