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4 Ways ‘Strong Black Woman Syndrome’ Keeps Us Poor

By Kara Stevens — 2019

The Strong Black Women Syndrome demands that Black women never buckle, never feel vulnerable and, most important, never, ever put their own needs above anyone else’s—not their children’s, not their community’s, not the people for whom they work—no matter how detrimental it is to their well-being.

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Anthony on Indigenous Mental Health and Self Love

Anthony Johnson is a social entrepreneur living in NYC and Arizona. In the video, Anthony talks about the importance of being open about mental health in an indigenous community, self care, and the power of shared story.

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Luisah Teish: Indigenous Voices

Luisah Teish will speak at The Natural Way about learning to love the Earth, our Mother, and will share her personal stories of growing up in the South and her relationship to the land. She will recount and examine cultural myths that have mis-educated us into alienation from Our Mother Earth.

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People of the Whale

Deeply ecological, original, and spellbinding. A hauntingly beautiful novel of the hidden dimensions of life.

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Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

In Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island.

Renee Linklater, Lewis Mehl-Madrona (foreword)

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Blessing-Song: So'O Blue Water - Water Concerns / Planting Seeds for the Next 7 Generations

This is a series of video excerpts from Grandmother (So'o) Mona Polacca Blue Water., on the Next Seven Generations, Water Concerns and a Blessing-Song for all.

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Grandmother Mona Polacca Blue Water: Hopi /Tewa and Havasupai - Traditional Knowledge

Grandmother Mona Polacca believes that her origins are as important as her name, Polacca, which means butterfly in the Hopi language. On her father's side, she a Hopi-Tewa from the Sun and the Tobacco Clans. It was her paternal grandfather who named her.

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Mona Polacca + Marina Abramović: Rites and Rituals

Our world is shaped by ritual. Hopi/Havasupai/Tewa Grandmother Mona Polacca meets with the “grandmother of performance art” Marina Abramović to talk about the essential role that ritual, repetition, and durational experiences play in reminding of us of our relationships to all things.

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Healing Prayer: Grandmother Rita Pitka

An audio prayer, from Grandmother Rita Pitka Blumenstein .

Rita Pitka Blumenstein

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Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet

We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . .

Carol Schaefer, Winona LaDuke (foreword)

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Agnes Baker Pilgrim | The Life and Times of Grandma Aggie

Agnes Baker Pilgrim talks of her early life and family, of her Takelma heritage, of the Sacred Salmon Ceremony, of going to Southern Oregon University and graduating at age 61, about the Circle of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers and about water, life and the earth.

Agnes Baker-Pilgrim

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