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To understand and lessen the fear of the other.

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  • Potter Maria!

    Maria Povika Martinez was a potter, a teacher, and a Tewa Native person. Living and working north of Santa Fe, Maria and her husband unearthed the unique process of creating black pottery. “The Great Spirit gave me (hands) that work…but not for myself, for all Tewa people.” Maria Povika Martinez Maria knew the importance of…

  • Women. Children. Horse. Book. WPA

    Packhorse Librarians â†’→Reading If Books by Horseback was a function: x = smart women, turn the crank, and y = a generation of people are educated. Boy, do we need X right now. Established during the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project (WPA) was a woman and horse-led venture. Librarians and horses might seem like…

  • Healing Through Dance: The Jingle Dress Tradition đź””

    Today is Powwow Day, and River can’t participate in the Jingle Dress Dance. Toward the end of WWI, the flu pandemic killed many people; the response from the Anishinaabe/Ojibwe people was to create a healing dance called the Jingle Dress Dance (during COVID-19, the dance was shared through the internet from home to home). As…

  • Transgender & You.

    Transgender & You.

    You are invited to celebrate the birth of a baby!

  • Refugee in the Big City!

    Refugee in the Big City!

    Please take care of this bear.

  • Heart & Hope Ignites Borders

    How Social Justice Empowers the Heart and Ignites Hope Across Borders.