Highlights and Calls To Action – Tribal Boarding School Toolkit for Healing
Calls To Action Native Land Research whose land you are on and learn about the history of the AI/AN people who live there. Native-Land.ca is a useful tool for researching these matters. Dos and Don’ts Do not wear other people’s traditional clothing as a costume. Hold your friends and family accountable when they use problematic… Continue Reading Highlights and Calls To Action – Tribal Boarding School Toolkit for Healing
NPAIHB Events
Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention Project
Domestic and sexual violence in Indian Country has been a quiet issue despite the growing epidemic. Federal data indicate that one in every three AI/AN women (34%) will have been raped in their lifetime, which is 2.5 times more than women of other races. Close to 40% of Native women will experience intimate partner violence… Continue Reading Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention Project
The Future – Tribal Boarding School Toolkit for Healing
Figure 13. Native people performing a traditional dance Impacts “We have the capacity to heal if we have the right structure and supports. We don’t have to hide it.” –Aaron Payment, EdD, EdS, Med, MPA (Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians). Highlight: Road To Healing As the Road to Healing Reports are released, it is important… Continue Reading The Future – Tribal Boarding School Toolkit for Healing
Experiential Therapies – Tribal Boarding School Toolkit for Healing
Experiential Therapies​ Digital Storytelling Digital storytelling is a powerful tool for communicating and processing complex emotions using digital technologies. It combines narrative storytelling by way of voiceover with photography, animation, film clips, text, and audio to create a three- to five-minute-long video. Not only can digital stories be used for telling personal narratives, but they… Continue Reading Experiential Therapies – Tribal Boarding School Toolkit for Healing
Tribal Health – Reaching out InVolves Everyone
Tribal Health: Reaching out InVolves Everyone (THRIVE) is the suicide prevention project at the NPAIHB. THRIVE works to reduce suicide rates among American Indians and Alaska Natives living in the Pacific Northwest by providing programmatic technical assistance, suicide prevention trainings, and resources to the Northwest Tribes. Project Activities Tribal Action Plans Funding Data/Statistics Trainings, Courses,… Continue Reading Tribal Health – Reaching out InVolves Everyone
The Past – Tribal Boarding School Toolkit for Healing
“Indigenous people and individuals have the right not to be subjected to forced assimilation or destruction of their culture.” ~ United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Article 7 Figure 2. Native American youth at Carlisle Native Industrial School, Pennsylvania (c.1900) Forced Assimilation and Its Impact on American Indians and Alaska Natives Genocidal… Continue Reading The Past – Tribal Boarding School Toolkit for Healing
Environmental Public Health
Our Team Services and Resources Contact Us Events Mission Statement The Environmental Public Health Program supports Northwest Tribes in creating wellness for the seventh generation. Purpose Statement The Environmental Public Health Program supports Northwest Tribes by providing comprehensive environmental public health services grounded in Indigenous knowledge and western science. OUR TEAM Shawn Blackshear, MS, RS… Continue Reading Environmental Public Health
ATNI Winter Convention
Information & Registration Link: https://atnitribes.org/events-conventions/atni-2024-winter-convention/
NCAI Executive Council Winter Session
About ECWS: The 2024 Executive Council Winter Session is the annual meeting of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Executive Council, one of NCAI’s three main governing bodies. This meeting presents an opportunity for Tribal delegates to hear from members of Congress and the Administration and helps to further the government-to-government relationship between Tribal… Continue Reading NCAI Executive Council Winter Session