Nationwide, Native students miss school far more frequently than their peers, but not at Watonga High School shown on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, in Watonga, Oklahoma. Credit: Nick Oxford / AP Photo By Felix Clary, EdSource, December 3, 2024 As the Watonga school system’s Indian education director, Hollie Youngbear works to help Native American students succeed in the Oklahoma district — a job that begins with getting them to school. She makes sure students have clothes and school supplies. She...

To read more of the First Nations article, please click here, Understanding Thanksgiving from Our Side of the Table | First Nations Development Institute . Most historians document that in 1621 there was indeed a First Thanksgiving but Native people were not invited guests to this celebration. Nonetheless, Wampanoag soldiers showed up to the Pilgrim celebration after hearing celebratory gunshots and screams from Pilgrim settlements. The Wampanoag soldiers, historians suggest, thought the...

To read more of Rosie Colosi's article, please click here, Her tribe was at the first Thanksgiving. She's an ordinary 16-year-old ... and a Powwow Princess . Picture credit: Eli Faria for TODAY In many ways, Ciara Hendricks is a typical 16-year-old. She's a junior at Mashpee Middle-High School on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. She plays basketball, lacrosse and field hockey. She works two part-time jobs, and she's considering pursuing nursing after she graduates, just like her mom and sisters.

To read more of Lisa Deaderick' article, please click here. Raised in a family of musicians, Melissa Little Wolf Villalobos was introduced to Native American music by her elders. She first heard the sounds of Native American flautist R. Carols Nakai, of Navajo and Ute heritage, when she was 5 years old. Nakai’s music has been a big influence on her own journey playing and performing on the flute. “After hearing flute for the first time, I recall how peaceful and powerful it made me feel,”...

To read more of Christian Navarro's article, please click here, Sacramento State announces new Native American college . California State University, Sacramento, is opening a new college, the Native American College—a first for the system—to support Indigenous students in the state, campus officials announced at the state Capitol Friday. The college plans to welcome its first cohort of first-time students and transfers next fall. Students who gain admission to the university and the new...

To read more of Stephen Newcomb's editorial on Domination Chronicles, please click here, On Biden’s Recent Apology for the Cruelty of the U.S. Indian Boarding “Schools” . On October 25, 2024, President Joe Biden visited the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona. He traveled there to deliver an official apology to Native nations and peoples. He apologized for the U.S. government creating a policy which separated tens of thousands of Native children from their parents and loved ones in more...

In this post, I posit a refreshing new understanding of bonding and attachment. When I explored this in a program with therapists last year, the result was exhilaration. Please share how this lands with you.

Former PACEs Connection employees Dana Brown (L) with Vincent Felitti, MD, co-author of the 1998 Adverse Childhood Experiences study, and Carey Sipp (R) in San Diego in January, 2024. The last few months have been quite challenging, but we pushed, persevered, and didn’t give up hope. The “we” is Carey Sipp and Dana Brown. We were long-time staff members of PACEs Connection determined to reinstate the website and the resources and information we provide to communities after the platform went...

To all of you, who, like me, love this website and want to see it and its communities flourish as we work to prevent and heal trauma; build resiliency: please know there is a move afoot by a small group of strategic partners to find a suitable host for PACEs Connection. More will be announced in the coming days. In the meantime, friends, we are figuring out email addresses and other communications logistics and opportunities. PEACE! Carey Sipp, former director of strategic partnerships ...

Hello partners, members, and friends, It is with mixed emotions that I am sharing that PACEs Connection will be sunsetting all operations effective Friday, April 26. While it saddens me to see this chapter of PACEs work come to a close, this work is too important to end, and efforts are underway to identify a new home for PACEs to continue its work. At the same time, this presents an exciting opportunity for PACEs to reemerge stronger than ever. Although we intended a seamless transition,...