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How to Boost Your Self-Esteem

Your self-esteem is the way you look at, or perceive, yourself. If you have healthy self-esteem, it means that you like yourself and you believe that you are just as cool as everyone else. If you have low self-esteem, it means that you believe that you’re inferior to others. People…
Categories: Feeling Good, My Mind, Self Esteem

Resiliency is in Our Blood

Resilience has become a bit of a buzzword in Native Country. A quick google search of “Indigenous resilience” will show roughly 56 million links associated with this phrase. But what is resilience? Resilience is the ability to adapt well in the face of adversity, trauma, and other challenges. It is…
Categories: Building Mental Resilience, History, My Culture, My Mind

Indigenous Feminism

Creating a world where people of all genders are respected and valued is the goal of Indigenous feminism. Working to decolonize our minds, bring back traditional Indigenous views of gender, and uphold tribal sovereignty are some of the ways we can all help build this reality. Traditionally, most Native communities…
Categories: Identity and Native Pride, My Culture

Healing the Land is Healing Us

Western colonial ways of thinking about health tend to focus on physical disease and injury. However, in Indigenous communities, our personal health and the health of our communities are often thought of as being dependent on our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. Also, for many Indigenous people, our health…
Categories: Land, My Culture, My Environment

Breaking Trauma Cycles

Ancestral Gifts We inherit many things from our parents, from their parents, and from generations going back to time immemorial. Often, when we consider the things we inherited from our relatives, we think about physical traits. “She has her mother’s eyes. He has his father’s smile. They have their grandparent’s…
Categories: Mental Health Difficulties, My Mind

What is the MMIW Movement?

MMIW stands for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. It’s a movement that advocates for the end of violence against Native women. It also seeks to draw attention to the high rates of disappearances and murders of Native people, particularly women and girls. The MMIW movement exists because a large number…
Categories: Abuse and Violence, My Relationships, Unhealthy Relationships

Racism and Anti-Racism

Racism impacts all aspects of our lives. It impacts what policies are created, whose histories are taught in school, and how we are seen and treated by others. We can all play a role in fighting racism. Let’s take a look at what racism is and how we can stand…
Categories: Abuse and Violence, Identity and Native Pride, My Culture

Indigenous Futurism

What would the world look like if tribal supernatural entities ruled? How will Native people survive a climate apocalypse? What would Turtle Island look like if it had never been colonized? Would we have high speed canoes? Indigenous futurism is an artistic movement — that includes novels, video games, comic…
Categories: Identity and Native Pride, My Culture
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