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May 30 + June 1, 2025 • Washington, DC
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My greatest ambition is to save great moments
March 4, 2025
As Canada continues its journey toward truth and reconciliation, Indigenous spiritual teachings are gaining recognition as valuable components of school curricula.
March 4, 2025
Art can translate the invisible, taking us to places where words do not always reach. These illustrations invite you to contemplate the world from a spiritual dimension inspired by Indigenous wisdom: the moon as a guide and the third eye as a door to intangible realities.
March 4, 2025
The drum is an important spiritual, ceremonial, and traditional item in many Indigenous communities.
March 4, 2025
My mornings are very predictable. I wake up before sunrise even if I do not entirely want to. I claim to be a morning person but my body strongly resists the idea. In the last few years, getting out of bed has become literally painful with my limbs often disobeying my brain’s command for motion.
March 4, 2025
As a psychologist and researcher working across Indian country for the past 15 years, notwithstanding significant historical trauma and ongoing systemic challenges, Indigenous people in the so-called “United States” demonstrate remarkable resilience, often drawing strength from their deep connection to land, culture, community, and spiritual practices, even while reporting high rates of psychological distress due to the impacts of colonization and dispossession.
March 4, 2025
Two years ago, when I heard that the Nigerian gospel artist Gloria Doyle had left Christianity to become an Ifá priestess, I quickly called her and requested an interview. During the interview, Doyle said, “God told me there is a better way for me to connect to him . . . You do not need to go through the pastors to see God, but if religion is warm, you feel your inner peace when practicing it. I cannot leave a place where I find peace to a place where there is war and bitterness; you stick there where you find peace.”
December 9, 2024
The deaths of 28-year-old Josseli Barnica (2021) and 18-year-old Naveah Crain (2023) made headlines as preventable fatalities that occurred as a result of delayed medical care during miscarriages.
December 9, 2024
For thousands of years, reproductive health care has been an essential part of Indigenous cultural practices, encompassing sacred rites, religious rituals, and the right to choose an abortion.
December 9, 2024
Each illustration is a visual testimony that reproductive justice goes beyond isolated choices. It encompasses the ability to live our experiences without impositions or taboos.
December 9, 2024
For Indigenous women of matrilineal nations, our ovaries are the future of our peoples. We carry the seeds of the next generations within our bodies. For my people, the Onöndowa’ga:’ (“Seneca”) of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, this sacred responsibility is why women hold an elevated status in the community.
December 9, 2024
Reproductive justice in Oaxaca is a critical issue deeply tied to the experiences of Indigenous women, who face unique challenges stemming from systemic inequities and cultural dynamics.
December 9, 2024
Tanzania stands at a critical juncture in its quest for reproductive justice, grappling with alarming maternal mortality rates that underscore the urgent need for comprehensive reproductive health care.