Healing in Community Restoring Endangered and Lost Cultural Practices

Global Indigenous Wisdom Summit 2014 > Family & Inter-Personal Peacebuilding > Healing Cultural Wounds
Broadcast on November 20, 2014
With Faith Spotted Eagle

Grandmother Faith Spotted Eagle will share stories about the creation of the Brave Heart Society and the challenges and joys of the young women involved.

Faith Spotted Eagle

Founding Grandmother of the Brave Heart Society

Faith Spotted Eagle is a founding grandmother of the Brave Heart Society, supervised by a group of community grandmothers called the Unci Circle, which is dedicated to restoring endangered and lost cultural practices to heal the wounds endured by the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota peoples. This process of restoration is decidedly community-driven: “We can’t wait for someone to do right by us, so we have to do it ourselves. I think our prophecies with our native people have indicated that there will be a time when we absolutely have to stand up, and this is that time.”

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