Tuesday’s live is a panel about Indigenous language preservation. Already at risk prior to COVID-19, many languages may be lost as we struggle against a disease most deadly to elders, our knowledge keepers and carriers. Alice Oligario (Nanaimo & Squamish First Nations + Philippines, Cynthia Savini (Makah, Jamestown S’klallam + Quileute), and Hi’io Delaronde (Mohawk)… Read More »WHAT ARE WE TAKING WITH US? – NLitC 2021

Native doctors and healers on the battle to keep our communities healthy during COVID-19 + the race to vaccinate Indian Country. ___________________________________________________ Dr. Dakotah Lane (Lummi) came back to the Lummi reservation in 2016 to practice family medicine after getting his medical degree from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Science in New York. It… Read More »HOW ARE WE HEALING? – NLitC 2021

A roundtable of Indigenous political minds on key issues Natives are dealing with, in legislatures far and wide. ___________________________________________________ John Richard McCoy is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He is a former member of the Washington State Senate, representing the 38th Legislative District. He previously served 11 years in the Washington House of… Read More »WHERE ARE WE NOW? – NLitC 2021

Please join United Indians for a special conversation between Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay (When They See Us, 13th) and rising Native star Jana Schmieding (Rutherford Falls) about retelling narratives often deleted from or distorted by “textbook” history. How we approach the telling of our past has a major impact on our ability to envision a… Read More »WHERE ARE WE GOING – NLitC

Foster care, kinship and adoptive families of Native foster youth: join our Foster Care Program's Daybreak Circle Time Connections on February 15th to learn some social dances together on Zoom! Link to join in the flyer.