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    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...

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    September 6, 2019

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    Education and Youth Empowerment
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    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...

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    August 21, 2019

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    Stories of Hope
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    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...

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    August 1, 2019

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    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...

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    July 30, 2019

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    Education and Youth Empowerment
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    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...

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    July 10, 2019

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    Education and Youth Empowerment
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    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...

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    June 7, 2019

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    Culture and Identity
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    The Untold Story: Living the Dakota 38 Memorial

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

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    April 2, 2019

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

    Native Hope
    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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    Education and Youth Empowerment
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    What the Lakota Nation Invitational Means for Native American Youth

    Native Hope
    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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