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Earlier this year, 20 students and parents formed the council with a goal of advocating for Indigenous curriculum in schools, spaces on campus for powwows, comprehensive data collection about native students and more.

One facility would house underage, pregnant Native women and the other would house disabled Native women in need of in-home care.

American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month celebrations began on Monday with campus hosting three back-to-back speakers in the WINN Centers. The event was one of many planned for Native Heritage Week by Native American Higher Education Resources, or NAHER, the Cosumnes River College organization aimed at creating a community for Indigenous-identifying students. “With this...

Around 100 people turned out for Monday’s “Sana Sana: Health & Healing Walk/Run” at Woodland Community College.

The third annual “Sana Sana: Health and Healing Walk/Run” is returning to Woodland Community College this month

Last week, the Round Valley Indian Tribal Council declared a state of emergency in hopes of quelling violence and drug use on the reservation. Community members expressed deep concern for young people, and the need for wholesome activities, adult guidance, and education.

Hundreds of Native people and their allies marched through in Californias capital to bring awareness to the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Hundreds march in California for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women May 10, 2021 10:30 AM CDT By Albert Bender Photos from the Sacramento Prayer Walk. | Top left and right photos courtesy of Craig Lewis / Angelas March; Bottom left photo: Sacramento Native American Health Cen...

“Tradition and culture are really at the core of who we are.  It’s how we heal.” by Claudia Boyd-Barrett For much of his early adulthood, Mike Duncan, a member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in Mendocino County, wrestled with unhealthy ideas about masculinity that devalued women and child-rearing. Among Duncan’s chief regrets from that time are how he behaved toward the mother of his oldest children, and the negative example he presented to his kids. “I was … trying to be right,...

News News Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. To Counter Domestic Violence, Some Native Americans Embrace Tradition Mike Duncan, founder of Native Dads Network, a nonprofit focused on promoting healthy parenting and relationships for Native Americans, is photographed at the Cache Creek Conservancy in Woodland, California. The conservancy is within the ancestral territory of Duncan’s Wintun forebears. Photo...