Building A Safer Community

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Safety isn’t separate from healing. For too many Indigenous families, violence — and the trauma it leaves behind — is part of the inheritance colonization handed down. We believe the same teachings that were taken from our communities are the ones that hold people when they’re struggling: cultural identity, belonging, and connection are not soft comforts. They are protection.
This is the work of breaking cycles. And we believe young people, supported by their elders and their culture, are the ones who will break them.

Lightkeepers

Honoring Stolen Relatives

We can’t talk about safety without naming what our communities carry: the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People. This violence is not history — it’s ongoing, and it touches families across Indian Country, including our own.
Our work meets this reality through prevention, through cultural healing, and through the deep connection between violence against women and the protection of all our relatives — including the water and the land. This commitment is strengthened by the expertise our partners at the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health and Lumina Institute, grounding our approach in survivor-centered, trauma-informed care.