National Native American Heritage Month
November 2021
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This month’s edition of the Healthy Native Youth newsletter is all about using your resilience. November is National Native American Heritage Month. Your ancestors prayed for your safety and happiness.
Take a moment to reflect on your own resiliency. How have you adapted to the stress and trauma of these times? What has brought you joy? How can you adapt to the season and still fill your heart with laughter and warmth?
Hear from one of HNY's elders and phenomenal educators about her process for health, wellness and intentional balance! HNY is here for you!
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Coming Up: November 10th at 10 AM PDT
Topic: Tackle Trauma with Care
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Indigenous communities have long fostered resiliency skills to cope, rebuild, and reclaim our beauty and place. Join the Native Children’s Trauma Center to walk through trauma informed practices to address and health from the trauma we have all experienced individually and communally during the pandemic. Together, we heal and thrive!
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Cultural Competency to Raise Healthy Native Youth
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Culture is engrained in everything that we do, from how we engage, learn, and process information. In order to best serve our Native youth, we must share our experience and the science behind culture as prevention so that our Relatives and allies can best support the health of our Native youth. Learn from Melissa Castaneda of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and Jared Delaney, We R Native’s TikTok influencer who shared their experiences imparting and supporting cultural competency. It was so good! Resiliency in full effect!
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I Strengthen My Nation Contest Extended
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Looking to engage students during National Native American Heritage Month? If so, We R Native & the National Institute on Drug Abuse are hosting two challenges that draw upon the strengths and resilience of Indigenous people. Win up to $10,000 for youth-led ideas for a community project that would increase resilience against substance misuse, submitted with a video description. Visit We R Native to learn more about the challenge. This is a terrific opportunity for individuals and native youth groups! Submit today!
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We R Native - Culture is Prevention
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For Youth - Text NATIVE to 97779
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We R Native - For Native Youth, by Native Youth! Encourage Native teens and young adults to follow We R Native by texting NATIVE to 97779 to receive weekly health tips, contests and life advice. We R Native spreads positive vibes and empowers today’s youth to create positive change at home. To view We R Native’s website, click here. And, follow We R Native on social media to spread the message of culture, health & wellness!
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The IndigiLOVE campaign was designed by tribal youth to spread positivity, share self-care tips, build mental strength, and encourage native youth to reach out for help when needed. Through honest poetry, filmmaking, and visual art, IndigiLOVE offers valuable lessons about self-care, effectively managing mental health, and reaching out for help from lived experience.
Here are examples of good medicine in action!
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Paths Remembered Project Spotlight
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Our Stories: Blog, Podcasts and Films
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The Paths (Re)membered has blogs, podcasts and films as resources to explore the Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ community through the community's stories of its strengths, resiliencies and histories towards a movement of health equity. View monthly posts of Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ activism, art, pride, celebration and hope.
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Lesson Enhancement Activities
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Here are few examples:
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Lateral Violence & Community Wellness
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In anticipation of National Native American Heritage Month, consider ways to promote wellness within the Native Community. Together, we can work toward dismantling lateral violence, which undermines safety and trust. Lateral violence - also called internalized colonialism or horizontal violence - happens when people who have been oppressed feel so powerless that they unleash their fear, anger and frustration against their own community members.
Learn more about lateral violence and strategies on how to combat it on the iKnowMine website.
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David Kennedy, co-founder of Wieden+Kennedy, the American Indian College Fund’s pro bono advertising partner for more than 30 years, passed away October 10, 2021. HNY honor his life and work.
It is bittersweet and fitting that the latest and perhaps greatest of Kennedy’s contributions to visibility movements for Native peoples is the ‘This Is Indian Country’ campaign, launched the evening of his passing with the video Manaháhtaan and the “This Is Indian Country” advertisement in The New York Times on Indigenous People’s Day, October 11, 2021.
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Self-care can be hard when there’s so much on your plate and you feel responsible for so many things. Take time this week to care for yourself – mentally, physically, emotionally, or spiritually. Give yourself the gift of rest and balance. If you need some help with that, check out our September Community of Practice "Back to School - Intentional Balance."
This week is a great week to use some of those gifts. Take a moment to craft a Self Care Plan and remember, you are resilient!
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