Health and Wellness

2022 Tillie Black Bear Woman Are Sacred Healing Camp - Session Recordings Read More ››

The protective asset building approach emerged internationally in the late 1990s as a way to increase teenage girls’ resilience and overall capabilities. Read More ››

In this webinar, we will be discussing how youth advocates can address teen dating violence in Tribal communities. Read More ››

The NIWRC policy team will be joined by Donna Brown, Executive Director of the Wabanaki Women’s Coalition (WWC) as she shares reflections of this year’s WWC Survivors’ Retreat and discusses the process of creating such an event within your community. The WWC Survivors’ Retreat is an event hosted every year by the Wabanaki Women’s Coalition in the Northeast. Read More ››

Understanding the mind body spirit connection, using its power and accessing its’ benefits is the basis of holistic healing.  Read More ››

Panelists discuss how Indigenous reproductive and maternal rights and justice work are essential to advocacy, ending gender-based violence, and sustaining and strengthening Indigenous communities in colonial spaces. Read More ››

This timely and important webinar will define and look at burn out versus moral injury.  Read More ››

The March 2021 edition is focused on topics related to law, prosecution, advocacy, and health care-related issues. Read More ››

This webinar focuses on love, healing and self-care. Dr. Duran will introduce the pillars of compassion and how through loving and taking care of ourselves we become better advocates, better human 
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Namelehuapono: Culture and Place-based Healing for Violence Against Native Hawaiian Women Read More ››

The NIWRC Native Love youth project tunes into the voices of youth to hear what NativeLove means to them and how it can inform our work as advocates. Read More ››

Native Wellness: HIV/AIDS Read More ››

The work to end violence against Native women and recreate peaceful, harmonious communities is based on reclaiming our traditional values, belief systems and life ways. Read More ››

Written by Brianna Theobald. Coercive sterilization of Indigenous women at Crow Agency, and the activism of Indigenous women, has a longer history than scholars have recognized. In the late 1920s and  Read More ››

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe was one of the first tribes in the country selected to participate in the Defending Childhood Initiative, raising awareness about children’s exposure to violence. Read More ››

American Indian life expectancy dropped by 6.6 years since 2020, one in 5 people who had covid now have long Covid. Read More ››

The goal for this webinar is for participants to engage in critical thinking about how their coalition/advocates and communities are actively practicing resiliency with youth who witness or experience Read More ››

View NIWRC's list of recommended books and publications authored by Indigenous women.  Read More ››

In Native cultures, Native peoples had non-violent life ways based on an understanding of the natural world, viewing health through the traditional concepts of balance and sense of well-being. Read More ››

Kristin Welch with the Waking Women Healing Institute Inc., will share how they are building culturally founded, sheltered places of learning to increase wellness, prevent acts of colonial violence... Read More ››

This Special Collection is a new video resource initiative of the NIWRC, a project inspired by the national TED Talks: Ideas Worth Spreading. Read More ››

In honor of Tillie Black Bear, known as the grandmother of the movement to end violence against Native women Read More ››

This video describes the findings of a National Institute of Justice (NIJ) supported study on the prevalence of violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women and men. Read More ››

Since time immemorial, Indigenous Peoples have experienced the connection between land and body. This connection has sustained many ways of life, teachings, and values. The disconnection of those relations through the removal of Indigenous Peoples from their ancestral homes and its impact on Indigenous bodies, spirituality, identity, and culture is evident in the long history of these violently forced changes. Read More ››