California Native Tribes Community Medic Trainings
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This fundraiser has been made in alignment with two Indigenous-led organizations: California Kitchen and the Payahuunadü Alliance.
Organizers from these groups are teaming up to coordinate Community Care Medic Trainings for Native communities across so-called California, supporting community members to gain access to medical practices and tools to deal with injury and illness on the frontlines of struggle for sovereignty, in the context of coronavirus, and the ongoing impacts of systemic racism on Native communities’ health.
Your contribution will go directly to these organizations.
Funds are allocated to three Community Care Medic projects:
**Medical supplies for the frontline and coronavirus response
**Stipend for community members to attend training if it is a financial hardship to take time off work
**Offset the technological costs of trainings, including: getting community members and trainers access to reliable internet and hardware; offering donations on an as-needed basis to trainers.
Why Support Native Community Care?
Native communities are striving to offset the current challenges and sicknesses our communities face. Much of our Tribal pain is in direct reaction and response to our varied degrees of healing from oppression. Addictions have not only increased but are stronger overall, and create long-term effects for many of our families. These addictions have become normalized in our communities. There's not one family that isn’t affected by these devastating impacts. Per capita in relation to other peoples, Native communities are three and half times more likely to experience significantly higher painful traumas of high risk behaviors such as high suicide rates, teen pregnancy, violence against women, child abuse and neglect, high domestic violence rates, low self-esteem, high dropout rates, increased diabetes and high morbid obesity in children.
The ill effects of settler colonialism not only gravely damaged our people's ability to respond in a healthy manner but has significantly caused everlasting destruction through environmental racism. The lack of protective measures for maintaining healthy ecosystems has been a continual battle that we've engaged in since settler contact for decades as we guard our very existence as human beings. We've battled extraction of wealth in our homelands starting with the gold rush and the effects of manifest destiny. We've continued to defend every corner of our homelands from deforestation to the legal theft of our water which is killing ecosystems. We believe the extraction from our region results in trillions of dollars in value, and this is why settler governments oppress our communities.
Corporate and governmental strategies of land and water theft rely on Native communities being distracted by the struggle to survive, so that we are unable to respond directly to thefts, treaty breaking, and disrespect of sovereignty. Some modes of oppression rely on direct threat to Native individuals. For instance, the threat of being abducted as a Native woman is very high--the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) has been endemic in this country since contact. Raising awareness about and justice for MMIW is part of community care.
The correlations between social justice and environmental racism are not by chance. They hold mirrored tactics of oppression as it plays out in the systematic racism we face daily in our culture. Native people need to be able to lead, to provide the anthropological and ethnographic documentation as we tell our own story of what, why and how we do in carrying out our responsibilities as caregivers. The energy we put into this work requires our intentional, focused and directed attention in order to promote existing Native frameworks of community wellness.
Our centuries-old worldview holds every connection sacred by manifesting and recognizing the intricate and finely-defined relationship we hold so deeply. We hold all roles within communities as valuable. How we interrelate all living beings is dynamic and reciprocated through our relationship of respect for time and place. Lessons before us come with spiritual, ecological and interpersonal understandings that give us guidance in our current and future directions. These lessons show us best practices for healing ourselves through tried and true techniques refined over thousands of generations of ancestral knowledge passed along to us. We feel the importance of reaching out to settlers and refugees for allyship and support in our communities. This medic training makes it more possible for us to do that in a sustainable way.
About the organizations:
The California Kitchen sprang out of the remote and beautiful homelands of the Hupa people of the Hoopa Valley along the Trinity River in response to the call of respecting and protecting our relationship with water. Klamath Basin Tribes in relationship with the Payahuunadü Tribes of the Eastern Sierra of California are linked by a shared commitment to water and land protection. We came together to heed the call from the Seven Council fires at Standing Rock of the Sioux Nation. The Kitchen was made to feed the revolution not only in alliance and solidarity but sharing ourselves as a River People and the value of water and how we share and care for this sacred relationship.
We communicate through our worldview, which is shaped within own traditional knowledge systems, as it's prioritized by the needs of our people and the lessons of our place. We work with allies and people of color within our ancestral lands of the Hupa, Yurok, Wiyot, Tolowa and Karuk in establishing collaboration, building networks and ensuring positive impacts. We will grow and collaborate new and existing partnerships that shares the vision and experience for a better community. Our weekly dialogues at the Kitchen ensure our approaches are community-driven. Providing a place of value and voice of worth from our community restores and fulfills our hope. Integrating and reclaiming our Indigenous modes is medicine.
The Payahuunadü Alliance is an organization of Nüümü leaders, educators, artists, speakers, athletes, professionals, elders, organizers, and activists based in Payahuunadü, the place of flowing water (so-called Owens Valley, California). Payahuunadü, the "land of the flowing water,” has been home of the Nüümü people since time immemorial. Centuries of settler oppression through violence, forced expulsion, and water diversion leading to drastic environmental degradation, has challenged Nüümü land and water access and well-being. The Alliance affirms and practices Indigenous sovereignty in Payahuunadü and beyond. Nüümü organizers formed the Alliance in order to bring home the fire of resistance and healing that was rekindled during the blockade of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock.
Utilizing your contribution, California Kitchen and the Payahuunadü Alliance will provide much-needed medical and hygiene supplies for combatting the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Funds will also go towards facilitating Medic Trainings for Alliance activists who plan to organize the front line of defense against Canadian corporations seeking to mine sacred indigenous sites. Additionally, donors will receive priority access to “Understanding Settler Colonialism: An Allyship Training.” This is a four-part educational webinar series facilitated by educators and community members of the Alliance and California Kitchen.
Donate now! You’ll be helping to:
**Protect the health and wellness of Hoopa and Payahuunadü communities amidst an overlapping crisis of pandemic, racist violence, and ongoing settler-colonial genocide;
**Support the preservation of Nuumü, Newe, Hupa, Yurok, Karuk and other west coast Indigenous cultures;
**Educate allies on the history and current manifestations of settler colonialism so that together, we can resist the structures of power that hurt us all, unequally.
Organizers from these groups are teaming up to coordinate Community Care Medic Trainings for Native communities across so-called California, supporting community members to gain access to medical practices and tools to deal with injury and illness on the frontlines of struggle for sovereignty, in the context of coronavirus, and the ongoing impacts of systemic racism on Native communities’ health.
Your contribution will go directly to these organizations.
Funds are allocated to three Community Care Medic projects:
**Medical supplies for the frontline and coronavirus response
**Stipend for community members to attend training if it is a financial hardship to take time off work
**Offset the technological costs of trainings, including: getting community members and trainers access to reliable internet and hardware; offering donations on an as-needed basis to trainers.
Why Support Native Community Care?
Native communities are striving to offset the current challenges and sicknesses our communities face. Much of our Tribal pain is in direct reaction and response to our varied degrees of healing from oppression. Addictions have not only increased but are stronger overall, and create long-term effects for many of our families. These addictions have become normalized in our communities. There's not one family that isn’t affected by these devastating impacts. Per capita in relation to other peoples, Native communities are three and half times more likely to experience significantly higher painful traumas of high risk behaviors such as high suicide rates, teen pregnancy, violence against women, child abuse and neglect, high domestic violence rates, low self-esteem, high dropout rates, increased diabetes and high morbid obesity in children.
The ill effects of settler colonialism not only gravely damaged our people's ability to respond in a healthy manner but has significantly caused everlasting destruction through environmental racism. The lack of protective measures for maintaining healthy ecosystems has been a continual battle that we've engaged in since settler contact for decades as we guard our very existence as human beings. We've battled extraction of wealth in our homelands starting with the gold rush and the effects of manifest destiny. We've continued to defend every corner of our homelands from deforestation to the legal theft of our water which is killing ecosystems. We believe the extraction from our region results in trillions of dollars in value, and this is why settler governments oppress our communities.
Corporate and governmental strategies of land and water theft rely on Native communities being distracted by the struggle to survive, so that we are unable to respond directly to thefts, treaty breaking, and disrespect of sovereignty. Some modes of oppression rely on direct threat to Native individuals. For instance, the threat of being abducted as a Native woman is very high--the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) has been endemic in this country since contact. Raising awareness about and justice for MMIW is part of community care.
The correlations between social justice and environmental racism are not by chance. They hold mirrored tactics of oppression as it plays out in the systematic racism we face daily in our culture. Native people need to be able to lead, to provide the anthropological and ethnographic documentation as we tell our own story of what, why and how we do in carrying out our responsibilities as caregivers. The energy we put into this work requires our intentional, focused and directed attention in order to promote existing Native frameworks of community wellness.
Our centuries-old worldview holds every connection sacred by manifesting and recognizing the intricate and finely-defined relationship we hold so deeply. We hold all roles within communities as valuable. How we interrelate all living beings is dynamic and reciprocated through our relationship of respect for time and place. Lessons before us come with spiritual, ecological and interpersonal understandings that give us guidance in our current and future directions. These lessons show us best practices for healing ourselves through tried and true techniques refined over thousands of generations of ancestral knowledge passed along to us. We feel the importance of reaching out to settlers and refugees for allyship and support in our communities. This medic training makes it more possible for us to do that in a sustainable way.
About the organizations:
The California Kitchen sprang out of the remote and beautiful homelands of the Hupa people of the Hoopa Valley along the Trinity River in response to the call of respecting and protecting our relationship with water. Klamath Basin Tribes in relationship with the Payahuunadü Tribes of the Eastern Sierra of California are linked by a shared commitment to water and land protection. We came together to heed the call from the Seven Council fires at Standing Rock of the Sioux Nation. The Kitchen was made to feed the revolution not only in alliance and solidarity but sharing ourselves as a River People and the value of water and how we share and care for this sacred relationship.
We communicate through our worldview, which is shaped within own traditional knowledge systems, as it's prioritized by the needs of our people and the lessons of our place. We work with allies and people of color within our ancestral lands of the Hupa, Yurok, Wiyot, Tolowa and Karuk in establishing collaboration, building networks and ensuring positive impacts. We will grow and collaborate new and existing partnerships that shares the vision and experience for a better community. Our weekly dialogues at the Kitchen ensure our approaches are community-driven. Providing a place of value and voice of worth from our community restores and fulfills our hope. Integrating and reclaiming our Indigenous modes is medicine.
The Payahuunadü Alliance is an organization of Nüümü leaders, educators, artists, speakers, athletes, professionals, elders, organizers, and activists based in Payahuunadü, the place of flowing water (so-called Owens Valley, California). Payahuunadü, the "land of the flowing water,” has been home of the Nüümü people since time immemorial. Centuries of settler oppression through violence, forced expulsion, and water diversion leading to drastic environmental degradation, has challenged Nüümü land and water access and well-being. The Alliance affirms and practices Indigenous sovereignty in Payahuunadü and beyond. Nüümü organizers formed the Alliance in order to bring home the fire of resistance and healing that was rekindled during the blockade of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock.
Utilizing your contribution, California Kitchen and the Payahuunadü Alliance will provide much-needed medical and hygiene supplies for combatting the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Funds will also go towards facilitating Medic Trainings for Alliance activists who plan to organize the front line of defense against Canadian corporations seeking to mine sacred indigenous sites. Additionally, donors will receive priority access to “Understanding Settler Colonialism: An Allyship Training.” This is a four-part educational webinar series facilitated by educators and community members of the Alliance and California Kitchen.
Donate now! You’ll be helping to:
**Protect the health and wellness of Hoopa and Payahuunadü communities amidst an overlapping crisis of pandemic, racist violence, and ongoing settler-colonial genocide;
**Support the preservation of Nuumü, Newe, Hupa, Yurok, Karuk and other west coast Indigenous cultures;
**Educate allies on the history and current manifestations of settler colonialism so that together, we can resist the structures of power that hurt us all, unequally.
Fundraising team: Community Care Medic Fundraising Team (4)
Charis Boke
Organizer
Newburg, CA
Hannah Sohl
Beneficiary
Kris Hohag
Team member
Marva Sii~xuutesna Jones
Team member
Kinsinta Joseph
Team member
