Jun 5, 2018 | Clan Mothers News
Our Way Home is a documentary film focusing on the building of Clan Mothers Healing Village, a holistic Indigenous-led community in Canada. It is also much more broadly about how Indigenous women are taking back control of their lives, breaking the cycles that hold...
Jun 5, 2018 | Sexual Exploitation / Trafficking
Although attention to human trafficking has grown in the last few years, trafficking is not a modern crime. Trafficking has existed in Native communities for centuries, since the earliest point of contact with Europeans. See this thought-provoking article titled...
Apr 22, 2018 | Environment, Youth
Autumn Peltier, a 13-year-old Anishinaabe girl from Wikwemikong First Nation, addressed world leaders at the United Nations about protecting water.
Apr 22, 2018 | Healthy Communities
By integrating traditional knowledge with Western science, we can solve some of our biggest challenges, including those brought by our changing climate.
Apr 12, 2018 | Sexual Exploitation / Trafficking, Youth
Mary G. was born from the boats. Her children were born from the boats too, all fathered through her liaisons with male customers. She has never known anything else. Like generations of Native girls and women before her, Mary and her family are inextricably tied to...
Apr 5, 2018 | Trans / 2-Spirited
In the Native American community, two spirits can be better than one. Gay couples can’t marry in Washington. But near Seattle, tucked away off the Puget Sound, there’s a sovereign nation whose citizens can marry whoever they choose. They’re called the Suquamish, and...
Apr 3, 2018 | Environment, Healthy Communities, Land-Based Education
See this great article from CBC titled “Year-round garden provides free fresh vegetables to hundreds on Manitoba’s Opaskwayak Cree Nation”
Apr 1, 2018 | Trans / 2-Spirited
For the most part, our modern mainstream society divides gender into two domains – man and woman, or boys and girls. Many traditional cultures around the world, including many Native American cultures, have not always viewed things in this way. See this great article...
Jan 31, 2017 | Clan Mothers News
On January 31, 2017, Elder Mae Louise Campbell, Co-Founder of Clan Mothers Healing Village spoke with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Red River College following her work with the Prime Minister’s Youth Council. This council spoke with the PM about their...
