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Dena Ned is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, and a professor and social worker at the University of Utah.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2023: Food Justice

Native mental health providers seek to heal boarding school scars with informed and appropriate treatment

by Alastair Lee Bitsóí August 14, 2023January 24, 2024

As more visibility is brought to the legacy of U.S. boarding schools, Indigenous mental health providers and social workers feel that therapy must address the unique trauma carried by survivors.

A view of Marble Canyon and the Vermillion Cliffs from above the Kaibab Plateau shows the northeastern parcel of the newly designated monument.
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Tribal nations celebrate new monument near the Grand Canyon

by Brooke Larsen and Alastair Lee Bitsóí August 11, 2023January 24, 2024

How decades of Indigenous advocacy led to the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.

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Who does the federal boarding schools investigation leave out?

by Alastair Lee Bitsóí November 22, 2022January 24, 2024

Hastiin Tadidiin was an early victim of the boarding school system. But his story is not yet part of the federal investigation.

Posted inDecember 1, 2022: Beyond Illusion

The night the Greyhounds came

by Alastair Lee Bitsóí September 8, 2022January 24, 2024

In northern Arizona and southern Utah, shared experiences of the boarding school round-ups live with survivors to this day.

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