Happy Women’s History Month! It is a time to celebrate and honor our change makers, Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color who continue to influence and contribute to our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the racial justice and environmental justice movement. And we know, land and body violence is always connected. This month, the Coalition top Stop Violence Against Native Women (CSVANW) will reflect, celebrate and honor the work of Black, Indigenous, Women of Color who continue to make our communities safe and healthy.
March 8, 2021 is International Women’s Day (IWD). IWD is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. “A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women's achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world. From challenge comes change, so let's all choose to challenge.” We ask you to join us in challenging stereotypes, fight bias, broaden perceptions, improve situations and celebrate Black, Indigenous cis/trans/gender expansive Women of Color’s achievements around the world. #ChooseToChallenge #IWD2021
Join us as we honor all our Black, Indigenous cis/trans/gender expansive Women of Color working in our communities as leaders, innovators, initiators, caretakers, artists, teachers, healers, advocates, land and water protectors, scientists and the list goes on. These amazing women continue to make our communities safe and healthy. They inspire a new generation of women and young folks to become leaders in their own communities across this nation and around the world. #WomensHistoryMonth
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March 8th, 2021 - International Women’s Day!
“A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women's achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world. From challenge comes change, so let's all choose to challenge.”
Join CSVANW and challenge stereotypes, fight bias, broaden perceptions, improve situations and celebrate indigenous women’s achievements around the world. Together, we do more and together, we are the movement. #ChooseToChallenge #IWD2021
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Sexual Violence in Tribal Communities |
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This training provided basic information sexual violence in tribal communities. The attendees included direct service providers, case managers, and advocates. The training focused on the following areas:
- Basic understanding of sexual violence as a tool of oppression
- An overview of victim rights and laws, including federal and state laws
- Introduction to understanding cultural humility when working with Native survivors
- Explore strategies for improving response and coordination among tribal, state, and federal service agencies.
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Jovita and Cheyenne presented on ways of protecting yourself and empowering each other for a safer future. Seth Abeita shared his knowledge and techniques for avoiding and escaping dangerous physical confrontations. The mental aspect of personal safety is the most important, so we will discuss reactions to conflict and danger. This session helped develop skills to maintain personal safety. |
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Congratulations to Februarys' Advocate of the month,
Arealia Denby-Muhammad!
Thank you for all your work in your community!
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Arealia Denby-Muhammad has served as volunteer Emergency Management Coordinator for National and International Disasters. She received a congressional award for her disaster coordination work in Mozambique, Africa during the floods in 1999. In May 2011 she was given an award as an "Ambassador of Peace" by the Universal Peace Federation a Korean lead UN organization.
Ms. Muhammad worked as the CHR Manager for the Hopi Tribe, Environmental Specialist for the Tohono O’odham Nation, Childcare Development Fund Manager for the Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada and is a member of the NM American Indian Chamber of Commerce.
In 2018 she opened her company X-Specially-4-U that sells environmentally friendly products Cleaning/Spa Products for the body, mind, soul and land. The company is socially conscious, uses its profits to fund advocacy activities for Native American women, unsheltered Native populations, elders, youth, ex-offenders who use traditional healing methods for themselves, families, land and communities at large. She not only sells her products but present the opportunity to those domestic survivors to start their own business, become economically independent by healing themselves and making their own products!
I want to thank the Coalition for this award. It has been my honor to serve our Tribal Family in the four corners and beyond. I thank all of the Advocates, the people who we serve, my ancestors who came to this land over 400 years ago and my Native ancestors who helped us in our time of need. I accept this award on their behalf!
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THANK YOU
TO OUR CHANGE MAKERS
February 2021 DONORS
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General contributions and donations from individual supporters and organizational partners are essential for CSVANW's sustainability and effectiveness. Your donation helps make it possible for us to cultivate and strengthen our ability to advocate for Native women and children and breaking of cycles of violence. |
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Tribal Leaders Summit
Save the Dates
April 27th & 28th, 2021
More information coming soon!
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Tewa Matrilineal Resistance to Environmental Violence
March 18, 2021
Via ZOOM
CSVANW welcomes community members to join! Pueblo matriarchs and aunties from Tewa lands of Northern New Mexico will share their stories of caretaking as an act of resistance against the ongoing contamination and harmful colonial permitting process from extractive industries, waste industries and the nuclear industrial complex. Time and time again, we see the impact on our lands and our relatives by the ongoing permitting to losing our relatives to violence.
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Diné Matriarch Resistance to Fracking
March 30, 2021
Via ZOOM
CSVANW welcomes all community members to join! Diné matriarchs and aunties from Dinétah/NW New Mexico will share their stories of caretaking as an act of resistance against the ongoing contamination and harmful colonial permitting process from extractive industries, and the connection to the impacts of violence in our tribal and urban communities.
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Sexual Violence in Tribal Communities
March 25, 2021
Save the Date
- Basic understanding of sexual violence as a tool of oppression
- An overview of victim rights and laws, including federal and state laws
- Introduction to understanding cultural humility when working with Native survivors
- Explore strategies for improving response and coordination among tribal, state, and federal service agencies
Registration coming soon.
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Advancing Advocacy in Tribal Communities Training
March 9, 11, & 17, 2021
This March, CSVANW will be holding its first Advancing Advocacy Training in Tribal Communities of 2021. We are excited to provide another amazing 40-hour core advocacy session for advocates working with/in tribal communities. Registration was launched on Jan. 27 and the first 40 registered participants will receive a grey hoodie and a $150 training stipend (attendance will be monitored). If you are a new advocate or need recertification, please register for our training!
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9th Annual Native Youth Summit |
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The 9th Annual Native Youth Summit is a series of 1 hour workshops over 4 days and is a powerful leadership development experience that connects, challenges, and cultivates a cohort of 10 Native youth ranging in age from 13 to 17 years old from across the state of New Mexico. Our theme for the summit is Black and Indigenous Solidarity and it will focus on self-awareness and land to strengthen our Tribal communities through the following learning opportunities:
- Encourage Native youth to work towards strengthening their voice;
- Building our Native youth knowledge on the basics of violence prevention so they may share with their relatives in their territories; and,
- Support Native youth in their building of knowledge to eliminate violence against all of our relatives.
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Reclaiming Land and Body Sovereignty Gathering
Save the Dates
April 6 - 8th, 2021
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CSVANW welcomes you join our Reclaiming Land & Body Sovereignty Gathering on April 6-8, 2021, save the date and join the conversation.
More information coming soon.
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NDN Collective - Moving Beyond COVID Relief Loans |
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THE ISSUE
Native Nations, tribal enterprieses, and Native-owned businesses are under-represented and disproportionately affected by COVID-19 and have less access to much needed capital and federal relief programs. In some parts of Indian Country, nearly 50% of small Native businesses have reported closures and many more have had to layoff staff. Native Nations and their enterprises also report larger unmet capital gaps that will last over six months.
NDN'S RESPONSE
NDN Fund has created three specialized loans with more flexible under-writing targeted at those Native-owned or tribally-owned businesses that are either adversely impacted by COVID-19 or demonstrate operation in a high-demand industry and/or are applying innovative business strategies. This portfolio will follow NDN Collective’s overall mission and theory of change by prioritizing businesses that demonstrate social and environmental co-benefits.
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Road Runner Food bank has Two Drive Thru Locations (Tuesday & Thursday) |
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NM COVID-19 Support Services |
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When individuals call the hotline, they can expect access to individual crisis counseling, group crisis counseling, brief educational and supportive contact, referral and resource linkage(s), and community networking and support. |
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ONE YEAR LATER: New Mexico, COVID-19, and Leaders of Color
March 16, 2021
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Join the Building Movement Project for a webinar to reconnect with New Mexico leaders of color and hold a discussion on how, one year later, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact their work and communities.
Moderator: Alicia Lueras Maldonado, President & CEO of Atlixco Productions, LLC; Consultant at BMP
Panelists:
- Johana Bencomo, Director of Community Organizing of NM CAFé
- Henry Brutus, Executive Director of La Casa, Inc.
- Angel Charley, Executive Director of Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women
- Sachi Watase, Executive Director of New Mexico Asian Family Center
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The Program Coordinator (Victims Assistance), GS-0301-9/11/12, vacancy announcement for the Victims Assistance Program in San Juan Pueblo, NM, opened Thursday, February 25, 2021, and will close at 12 midnight on Thursday, March 11. The vacancy number is ST-21-11041857-CAWV-CC and can be accessed directly at the following link:
Please feel free to forward this email to potential applicants who are within the area of consideration and your Tribal liaison for distribution.
Current and former Federal employees must submit their SF-50, BIA Form 4432, and resume(s). They should not submit award SF-50s, however, as those do not contain all the data we need. Also, Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements – this means that they must possess one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level to qualify for the grade for which they are applying (e.g., they must have one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level to be considered).
Tribal members must submit their BIA Form 4432 and resume(s).
Resumes should be geared towards the specialized experience qualification requirements stated in the vacancy announcement and this experience must be clearly shown on their resumes for them to be considered qualified. While a candidate may serve in a position(s) with the same title or similar title of the position, if that candidate’s resume does not address the specialized experience and/or duties performed in the position held, the candidate will not be found eligible.
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Keep checking back for more opportunities here. |
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