Justice for native women begins with rewriting history. It's time we tell a more complicated, difficult and challenging version of the truth: IndigenousPeoplesDay
“The Blanket Exercise can be powerful emotional experience for a lot of people, for a number of reasons,” Sarah Eagle Heart, the Executive Director of Native Americans in Philanthropy , told. “It immediately exposes the participants to a great amount of Native history that is largely left out of everyday American life—meaning that it is omitted from educational systems and it hasn’t been important to government agencies that Americans are exposed to an accurate history.
The exercise I attended was convened by a feminist community typical of Los Angeles itself: Movement leaders like Eagle Heart and other members of the NAIP team, and author, activist and civil rights attorney Mónica Ramírez, were joined by co-hosts, actors and activists Piper Perabo and Natalia Cordova Buckley.
“When Sarah was giving the opening remarks at the United State of Women in 2018, she asked myself and other Times Up activists to introduce Local Tongva elders, and acknowledge the land that the conference was taking place on, and then sing with Indigenous leaders honoring Missing Murdered Indigenous Women with the ‘Woman Warrior Song’ as a way of showing diversity and solidarity across social movements,” Perabo explained to“That experience tied my heart to the fight for Native American...
We stood in silence as we helplessly watched a cruel history play out in miniature—400 treaties broken over four centuries, each in an act of political warfare; children robbed from their families for a century, sent without their consent to abusive detention centers where they died or instead suffered endlessly.
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