2021 Native American Heritage Month |
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Happy #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth! As we store our harvest, create stews of nourishment with our bounty of the season and reflect on the lessons learned, the relationships we’ve built and watered we also look upon the most impactful experiences we have had as movement leaders.
One of our most powerful experiences together as team and with our relatives was being on the frontlines in Washington D.C. on Indigenous Peoples Day this past October. We walked with our community partners, one of our member organizations, our relatives in the Southwest and those fighting for the restoration of health and balance across Indigenous nations demanding an end to fossil fuels and all extractive industries. We carried with us the stories and experiences of our communities who have been targeted as sacrifice zones. We know and name that land violence is not only body violence in itself but these industries function as fuel for MMIW/R. Where there is extractive industry there is MMIR. As we marched to the white house written in red paint in non-violent direct action on the statue of Andrew Jackson who signed the Indian Removal Act were the words “Expect Us”.
We are at a pivotal moment. We have asked and we have asked, we have navigated all the systems of accountability to ask for a change from consultation to consent. These requests which have spanned generations of leaders, have not been honored. We know that our future and the future of our communities requires us to unite and demand the solutions we hold to be honored.
This month we ask you all to join us in showing up for Survivors, advocates, Indigenous communities, our Black relatives, our LGBTQ2S+ relatives, our water & land protectors, our Earth, our Water and for all our cycle breakers on the frontlines demanding a safe & healthy future for our communities.
As Indigenous people our way of life with each other and with the land is rooted in love, kinship, and respect. The systems that seek to further cause harm and disrupt our lifeways can expect us to show up and demand accountability to protect our water, land, communities, women, children, LGBTQ2S+ relatives, elders, disabled relatives and our men and boys.
“Expect Us” is to demand for accountability, abolish extractive industries, to demand justice for our missing and murdered Black and Indigenous Relatives, justice for our missing Black and Indigenous children, and expect us to demand #LandBack to truly ensure a future for every living being!
Join the movement with CSVANW as we follow the footsteps of our Ancestors, water and land protectors that we lost in the struggle for liberation that are silenced or incarcerated for showing up for our community, land, water and future!
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CSVANW Shows Up for New Mexico Tribal Communities at People vs Fossil Fuels Action in Washington D.C. |
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On Indigenous Peoples Day, our team at the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women (CSVANW) showed up at the People vs Fossil Fuels and marched the streets of Washington D.C. because we know that for Native American women in the United States, it is not a matter of if she will experience violence in her lifetime, but rather, a matter of when.
Extractive Industries have devastating impacts on our communities, what is done to the land is done to the people and our bodies. These industries bring violence into our communities and contribute to the ongoing epidemic of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW). The Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women (CSVANW) is ready to stand with those wanting to end the violence of fossil fuels.
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Domestic Violence and Advocacy in New Mexico Tribal Communities
October 7, 2021
In recognition of October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, CSVANW Training and Education Director Jolene Holgate will held a 2-hour training entitled “Domestic Violence and Advocacy in New Mexico Tribal Communities” for our members and service providers. The training focused on the general dynamics of domestic violence and intimate partner violence (IPV), Introduction to the Safe & Together Model, and advocacy in tribal communities. A certificate was provided to participants after taking our training survey.
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2nd Annual North Fork Women's Conference
October 9, 2021
CSVANW Training and Education Director Jolene Holgate provided a presentation at the 2nd Annual North Fork Women's Conference, a virtual event hosted by the North Fork Rancheria Tribal TANF program. Her presentation centered on Domestic Violence Awareness Month, root causes of violence in tribal communities, and community advocacy to support survivors of violence. The conference theme was "Women Empowering Women: We are Life Givers, Nurturer's, Healers, Teachers, Protectors, and We are Inspiring."
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"Bring Her Home" Strategy Summit
October 14, 2021
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Dakota/Diné filmmaker Leya Hale and her team held a virtual Strategy Summit regarding the upcoming release of the documentary "Bring Her Home" that follows the path of three Native women who are fighting for justice and creating art and awareness around Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Minnesota. CSVANW Training and Education Director Jolene Holgate attended the summit on behalf of the coalition to offer ideas and participate in meaningful discussion to elevate the film and support MMIW advocates.
The film is set to release in 2022; link to trailer: https://www.tpt.org/post/bring-home-new-film-leya-hale/
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DVAM Presentation to Santo Domingo Pueblo Care Link Program
October 22, 2021
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CSVANW Training and Education Director Jolene Holgate presented to the Santo Domingo Pueblo Care Link Program at their health facility in the community. Recognizing and honoring all covid safety protocols in collaboration with Care Link, CSVANW was happy to provide one of their first in-community presentations in a safe environment. Jolene presented to program participants and community members on DVAM, foundational dynamics of DV/IPV, going over types of abuse, and how community can support survivors of DV/IPV. For more information on the Santo Domingo Health Center Behavioral Health Serivices, please visit: http://www.kp-hc.org/beh-health.htm |
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Purple Thursday
October 21, 2021
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CSVANW and our Chair Board of Director wore purple on Thursday, October 21 to show our support for survivors & our commitment to ending violence.
Purple Thursday is an opportunity to raise awareness about domestic violence and an easy way for people to show their commitment to promoting healthy relationships.
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Foundations in Advocacy with NMCSAP: CSVANW Organizational Introduction and Sexual Violence in Tribal Communities Training
October 19 2021
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In partnership with the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women's Sexual Violence Project Coordinator provided a training on the organizational framework of CSVANW as well as a training on Sexual Violence in Tribal Communities. Participants were highly engaged new advocates and we welcome NMCSAP's new cohort! |
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Breaking Silence: DV and IPV in Tribal Communities
October 20, 2021
Partnered with the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence, CSVANW's Sexual Violence Project Coordinator hosted an event with community members and advocates in which they engaged in a discussion about domestic violence and intimate partner violence in tribal communities.
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Building Generations: Healthy Families and Community
October 27, 2021
The Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women partnered with the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence to talk about healthy families and communities with emphasis on tribal communities. Participants were able to learn more about both coalitions as well as learn from each other about healthy tribal communities.
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Our Advocate Coordinator presented to Isleta Youth on healthy homes and safe communities while the group enjoyed pizza provided by CSVANW. They had open conversations that here youth led about what a healthy home feels like, looks like, smells like and how families can negotiate conflict. The Isleta Pueblo Youth helped CSVANW package over 100 of our 5k swag that would be distributed to our runners who registered for the 5 K I will Run For Them Virtual Run. Thank you Isleta Pueblo Behavioral Health Youth Program and special thanks to the Isleta Youth for helping us on this very important task. |
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2021 DVAM Instagram Challenge |
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Thank you to all our relatives who joined our 2021 DVAM Instagram Challenge. Thank you advocates, Survivors, supporters, and community members in breaking the silence by responding to daily prompts in creative ways for you to raise awareness & education community. Together, we break the silence and build a healthy generation.
Congratulations to Terrie Chavarria for responding most to the DVAM daily prompts.
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I Will Run for Them Virtual 5K
October 23 & 24, 2021
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Thank you all for your joining the movement and dedicating your 5K to those affected by domestic violence. We had over 300 participates join us and share their 5K to help amplify our mission to stopping violence against our Native relatives and communities.
And thank you to all our relatives who joined us on the morning of our I Will Run for Them 5K virtual opening ceremony. A special thank you to our guest speakers for grounding us! Together, we can break the silence and build a safe and healthy generation! Thank you for joining us and we hope to see you next year!
#IWillRunForThem #BreakTheSilence #HonorCycleBreakers #DVAM2021
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Thank you to our sponsors for making this year's
I Will Run for Them Virtual 5K possible
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Congratulations to Novembers' Advocate of the month,
Marie R. Kirk!
Thank you for work for your community!
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November CSVANW Advocate of the Month Marie R. Kirk is a member of the Isleta Pueblo Tribe, which is one of the 19 New Mexico Pueblos, located 13 miles south of Albuquerque. Marie’s twenty-year-plus counseling career includes work in the fields of HIV/AIDS/STD and substance abuse, largely with Native American communities outside her own.
Her work experience is supported with specific training through the University of New Mexico Institute in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Studies; certified in Hepatitis A, B, & C through the New York State DOH; certified HIV/AIDS Preventionist; certified HIV Counseling and Testing through the New Mexico State DOH Infectious Disease Bureau – HIV Prevention Program; and certified Portable Challenge Course Trainer. Mrs. Kirk is recognized as an expert on HIV/AIDS issues affecting the American Indian populations. She has extensive experience training professionals and lay-people in HIV/AIDS prevention and sexually transmitted infections. She was formerly a member of the Advisory Board to the Office of Minority Health Resource Center; former board member of The AIDS Institute; alternate Co-chair for Region 7 – NM State Department of Health – Community Planning and Action Group on HIV and AIDS for American Indians.
She received the 2001 Leadership Award for significant contributions in leadership, providing vision and integrity in visioning, creating and implementing new programs for HIV Prevention and support services for Native Americans in the State of New Mexico; received the 2005 Red Ribbon Leadership Award for dynamic leadership in HIV Prevention in the United States from the National HIV/AIDS Partnership; and received the 2007 Annual Marty Prairie Award which is given to a Native American community member who demonstrates action, voice, and leadership in the fight against HIV/AIDS.Although recognized for her work on various levels, it has been her desire to one-day return to her own tribe, applying the skills gained to aid her very own people.
Today, she is doing just that, currently serving in the role of a Victim Advocate for the Pueblo of Isleta. Acquiring knowledge via webinar trainings, community events, as well as working closely with her mentor, Eulalia Lucero, she works on expanding her knowledge of Tribal, State, and Federal laws to better serve her clients. It is her hope to continue to work to bring resources together and collaborate for our communities to begin the healing process.
Thank you for your services and commitment to the survivors and victims of crime in the Pueblo of Isleta. You are appreciated for your hard work and continued efforts needed to be safer in the community you serve. Thank you for sharing other resources and your expertise with the rest of our tribal community advocates. CSVANW honors you. -Tiffany Jiron, Advocate Coordinator
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Systemic violence must be addressed across New Mexico |
October is nationally proclaimed as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and during this month, many of us in the work to end violence against women across the nation are busy trying to educate our communities to bring an end to this systemic crisis disproportionately impacting Indigenous communities across the country.
Most of our movement leaders come to this work with lived experiences and want to help others live a life without violence. In tribal communities, where the rate of violence is five times more likely to occur than in non-Native communities, it’s important to understand the root causes of violence. It’s important to understand the historical context and historical trauma and how they are a direct consequence of ongoing systemic violence against our Indigenous nations as a result of the establishment and expansion of the settler colonial project we know as the United States of America.
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Native groups protest fossil fuels in Washington, D.C. |
Native American groups have been protesting fossil fuel production this week in Washington, D.C., in order to help shine a light on the connection between fossil fuel extraction and violence against Native women.
Members of the New Mexico Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women (CSVANW) traveled to participate in the protest that began on Indigenous People’s Day in front of the White House to demand that President Joe Biden declare a climate emergency and end fossil fuel production. Many Native leaders from around the country are participating in the week-long protest.
Angel Charley, Laguna Pueblo and executive director of CSVANW, told NM Political Report from the nation’s capital that “we don’t necessarily think of extractive industries as a violence against women issue.”
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Together, We Do More: An Indigenous Peoples Day Message From the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women |
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On this day, Indigenous Peoples Day, our team at the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women (CSVANW) stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the People vs. Fossil Fuels as we march the streets of Washington D.C. because we know that for Native American women in the United States, it is not a matter of if she will experience violence in her lifetime, but rather, a matter of when.
Extractive Industries have devastating impacts on our communities, what is done to the land is done to the people and our bodies. These industries bring violence into our communities and contribute to the ongoing epidemic of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW). The Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women (CSVANW) is ready to stand with those wanting to end the violence of fossil fuels.
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Mother continues to search for missing daughter last seen in Albuquerque |
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Every year, tens of thousands of people go missing in the U.S. According to data from the FBI, nearly 600,000 people went missing in 2020.
Many of those people are found, but others remain missing, and their families continue to search for answers about their loved ones. This includes many Indigenous people.
“This is a crisis that has been happening in our country since colonization, and it's very very deep and so I'm grateful that we're seeing some action on it right now,” said U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland.
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THANK YOU
TO OUR CHANGE MAKERS
October 2021 DONORS
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General contributions and donations from individual supporters and organizational partners are essential for CSVANW's sustainability and effectiveness. Your donation helps make it possible for us to cultivate and strengthen our ability to advocate for Native women and children and breaking of cycles of violence. |
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Water is Our First Environment: Considerations on Ecology, First Foods, and Generational Strengthen
November 22, 2021
Virtual Event
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CSVANW welcomes you to join us in a discussion about how Land Violence is connected to Body Violence. Birth work and effects of extractive industries on bodies, breast milk, and child development.
If you registered and cannot attend, please let Honey Sunday at hsunday@csvanw.org know, so she may take your name off the registration list.
There will be a survey at the end of the workshop, please complete. Thank you.
Agenda coming soon!
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Sexual Violence in Tribal Colleges
November 10, 2021
1PM – 2:30PM (MDT)
Virtual event
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This training, participants will learn about the issue of sexual violence on college campuses with a focus on tribal colleges, understanding historical trauma, believing survivors, and consent. Advocates, community members, law enforcement, and students attending university are encouraged to register! |
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Advancing Core Advocacy Training in Tribal Communities for New Advocates
November 16, 17 & 18, 2021
Virtual Event
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Our Core Advocacy Training supplements fundamental skills and knowledge building for new advocates serving New Mexico tribal communities. Our three-day (24-hrs) virtual training is in combination with 16.25 hrs of OVC-TTAC Training, which you must complete to attain your Certificate of Completion (40 completed hours) from the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women. CSVANW is 1 of 2 entities to provide state certified training for new domestic violence advocates in New Mexico.
CSVANW aims to help New Mexico-based advocates and first responders to work together effectively in times of crisis. The Advancing Core Advocacy Training in Tribal Communities is an introductory training designed for advocates who are new to their position or have been in their position less than 2 years and have not received state certification.
Advocates will need to have access to a stable Internet connection to see the training presentations, material, and to be present virtually via Zoom. Call-ins by phone will not count toward the core advocacy certification, unless utilizing it for audio purposes along with your video.
CSVANW's service area is the state of New Mexico, the Four Corners Regions (northeastern AZ, southeastern UT, and southwestern CO), and Ysleta del Sur Pueblo in El Paso, TX. If you are located out of our service area and interested in the training, please contact us at 505-243-9199 or email jholgate@csvanw.org so we can put you in touch with an organization in your region. Unfortunately, advocates outside of our service area will not be eligible for certification.
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From NM Crisis & Access Line:
5-Actions Program™ Training on Indigenous Healing Practices for Addiction
Sat, Nov 6, 2021 9:00 AM MST
We invite you to join us for a conversation with Dr. John Fitzgerald of Digital Therapeutics and Mr. Lorenzo Jim of First Nations Community Healthsource as we talk about how there are alternative healing practices available to move into recovery, and discuss how the NM 5-Actions Program™ offers powerful learning and behavior change tools to assist those that are ready to overcome addiction and find resiliency.
In this training you will learn:
- The nature of Soul Wound and its relationship to addiction
- Benefits of combing indigenous practices with traditional western medicine
- That you have within you the medicine to heal your wounds
- How to begin incorporating indigenous healing practices on your recovery journey
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NIWRC'S 10-Year Anniversary Webinar:
Carrying Our Medicine Forward
November 17th, 2021
This fall, the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) will mark its 10-year anniversary and re-dedicate our commitment to strengthening tribal responses to safety for Native women and their children. Join us for a live webinar showcase of NIWRC’s support of the Indigenous movement for safety for Native women, including historical milestones and accomplishments of our technical assistance and training, resource development, and policy and systems engagement. Hear highlights of our advocacy over the past decade and reflections from our staff, board, and partners in this celebratory webinar. Learn how you can support the movement for safety for Native women and get involved with NIWRC's work to strengthen roots and plant seeds for change.
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