October 2023

Where Every Feather Counts (reasonstobecheerful.world)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 10/31/232:24 PM

Robert Mesta, a member of Arizona’s Pascua Yaqui tribe, is the coordinator of the Liberty Wildlife Non-Eagle Feather Repository in Phoenix. Credit: Rebecca L. Rhoades To read more of Rebecca L. Rhoades' article, please click here. In a small room tucked away in the back of an Arizona-based wildlife rehabilitation center, Robert Mesta sits surrounded by displays of feathers of all sizes and colors, taxidermied birds and Native American implements crafted from feathers. A stack of papers rests...

Strength Through Unity: Nurturing Trauma-informed Resilience in Families Displaced by Violence Through the CRC & the PACEs Movement

Kahshanna Evans · 10/30/234:31 AM

Beyond Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), our members seek to deeply understand strengths-based insights embedded in the remaining ACEs quadrant: Adverse Community Environments, Adverse Climate Experiences, and Atrocious Cultural Experiences.

A Last Conversation With Robbie Robertson, About ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and Reconvening With Martin Scorsese: ‘It’s Just Been a Gift in Life’ (variety.com)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 10/27/237:41 AM

Image: Getty To read more of Chris Willman's article, please click here. In an interview shortly before his death, Robertson talked about his own Native heritage and said of getting to do a project that has its 'soul' in that world: 'You couldn't have made something like this up. This is so magical.' When I spoke with Robbie Robertson over the phone in the last week of July, it was at what everyone might have expected would be the beginning of a great victory lap for the musician. His work...

Indigenomics 101: A new voice shows how to make room for First Nations at the economic table (financialpost.com)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 10/23/237:19 AM

Indigenomics Institute founder Carol Anne Hilton describes the Indigenous approach to economics as one rooted in values rather than a slavish commitment to market orthodoxy. PHOTO BY YOUTUBE To read more of Kevin Carmichael's article, please click here. The North American bison herd was all but destroyed by European “hide hunters” in the early 1880s, but it’s still possible to sketch the animals’ former range from outer space. A satellite image of the nighttime sky over the Canadian Prairies...

The Long, Strange, Beautiful Road to ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ (thefp.com)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 10/22/2311:45 AM

Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon. (Courtesy Apple TV+) To read more of Nancy Rommelmann's article, please click here. My father-in-law and late husband, both accomplished actors, wished for a time when Hollywood would make movies about real Native Americans. Now my daughter is living it. It’s 1985, and I am 24—a few years removed from smoking cigarettes in front of the Baskin-Robbins in Brooklyn Heights. I’m in Georgetown, South Carolina, and I jump off the...

Churches confess and repent for sins against Native and Indigenous people [npr.org]

Carey Sipp · 10/11/231:09 PM

Earlier this year, the Vatican responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the "Doctrine of Discovery," which has its origins in 15th-century papal bulls, or decrees. Gregorio Borgia/AP By Jason DeRose, National Public Radio (NPR), October 6, 2023 Each Sunday, Culver City Presbyterian Church Pastor Frances Wattman Rosenau begins the worship service with these words: "As we gather for worship this day, we acknowledge that the land on which we gather was for many generations...

When Is Indigenous Peoples' Day? (history.com)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 10/8/239:13 AM

CHELSEA GUGLIELMINO/GETTY IMAGES To read more of Becky Little's article, please click here. For the third year in a row, the United States will officially observe Indigenous Peoples Day alongside Columbus Day . Indigenous Peoples' Day celebrates the history and contributions of Native Americans. In 2023, the holiday falls on Monday, October 9. While the Joe Biden administration has officially recognized Indigenous Peoples' Day since 2021 , it is not yet a federal holiday. More than a dozen...

"Native Histories and Cultures Education Act" Legislation Introduced (nativenewsonline.net)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 10/5/237:47 AM

(Photo/Native News Online file image) To read more of the Native News Online Staff's article, please click here. U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN), a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, introduced the Native Histories and Cultures Education Act legislation to improve public education and understanding about Native American peoples and their histories. The legislation aims to correct an ongoing problem of the lack of accurate Native American history being taught in the public...

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