Vegas (4th grade) is a proud High Honor Roll member in his school district, and he attended today’s Idle No More round dance at the Missoula mall. He decided that he was going to bring a sign that was supportive of the Violence Against Women Act - and he came up with this message all by himself. Thank you to his mother for raising such an amazing young man, and for sharing this story/photo with us.
![On Monday November 12, 2012, Save Wiyabi Project hosted Native people from all Nations to participate in a film for Eve Ensler’s, “One Billion Rising” campaign/movement. The event took place at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. The film is for V-Day, which takes place on February 14, 2013.
1 in 3 women will be raped, beaten, or murdered in her lifetime. That’s one billion women. Native American women face rates of violence higher than any other ethnic group in the United States. We are part of the one billion, and we are rising.
For more amazing photos from the day’s event, please check them out on our Facebook page! [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.405828506152779.85671.282026881866276&type=1]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdij2a8CTv1r85fkno1_500.jpg)
On Monday November 12, 2012, Save Wiyabi Project hosted Native people from all Nations to participate in a film for Eve Ensler’s, “One Billion Rising” campaign/movement. The event took place at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. The film is for V-Day, which takes place on February 14, 2013.
1 in 3 women will be raped, beaten, or murdered in her lifetime. That’s one billion women. Native American women face rates of violence higher than any other ethnic group in the United States. We are part of the one billion, and we are rising.
For more amazing photos from the day’s event, please check them out on our Facebook page! [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.405828506152779.85671.282026881866276&type=1]
I am the 1 in 3. Save Wiyabi Project: https://www.facebook.com/Save.Wiyabi.Project
Lauren Wolfe (the director of Women Under Siege) and I co-wrote an article for The U.K. Guardian. I’m so proud of our work.
I’m also honored to be a contributed at Women Under Siege: http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/blog/entry/Hidden-epidemic-why-one-group-of-Americans-is-raped-without-justice
Attention fellow Native women: This event is taking place June 20th and 21st in Fort Belknap, Montana. Since this is happening on my reservation, I will trek back from San Francisco to be part of this. If you would like to attend you can absolutely come stay with one of my family members. With all the recent reports that have come out about the stats of violence towards Native women, and the current political climate that is very anti-woman, this could not come at a more important time. I’m excited to be there as an individual but also to represent Save Wiyabi Project. Please let me know if you are interested!!
Super exciting stuff! Save Wiyabi Project was just featured in NM Magazine. There’s going to be an interview of Jessa Rae and I published in the premiere print/online issue. In the meantime they have given us a much appreciated shout-out and the Reader’s Digest version of the project. We’re so honored!!
is a powerful declaration of sovereignty, a way to say that we’re still here.
Although Jenna Talackova, a First Nations transgender woman, was fighting for the individual right to compete in the Miss Universe pageant, her case turned into something bigger. Because of the case it has now been ruled that all transgender women from here on out can compete for the title of, “Miss Universe”. Congrats and good luck Jenna! You are making your fellow Indigenous women extremely proud.
Kseniya Makarova…thank you a million times for this.
The United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous People.
Although not official international law, it carries moral and political force. It is a statement and agreement recognizing and empowering Indigenous people. It is also a commitment from the state, to address concerns specific to Indigenous people. Out of 158 countries, the United States was dead last to sign and refused to until 2010; President Obama adopted the Declaration at the White House Tribal Nations Conference.
Today, the U.S. is not living up to even the bare minimum requirements of the U.N. Declaration.
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