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Join Us For LovingKindness Meditation
NEW evening session on Wednesday nights
And morning sessions on the rest of the weekdays!
The Nakani Native Program presents weekday Loving Kindness Meditation sessions for health and stress relief, open to anyone but especially aimed at Native Americans and front-line health care
workers.
You are invited to attend any weekday morning EXCEPT on Wednesdays 8:30-9:15 AM Pacific Time via Zoom.
On Wednesdays attend the evening session from 8 PM to 8:45 PM Pacific Time.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81773366595
All ages and experience levels are invited.
Attend any or all sessions.
These sessions will reduce stress while bolstering your immunity and mental functioning. You will experience an immediate positive change in your body and mind during and after the sessions! This will be especially helpful for frontline workers. We will pay special attention to Indigenous/Native American world views.
Who?
Meditation teacher Vishaka Smith, Ph.D. will guide you through gentle stretching and non-sectarian meditations. Vishaka has been teaching meditation since 2012.
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Skokomish Tribe & Partners Upgrade Water Quality
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Skokomish Tribe and Partners Upgrade Hoodsport Water Quality - Northwest Treaty Tribes
The Skokomish Tribe and partners are celebrating years of hard work to improve water quality in Hood Canal. The water quality status of 66 acres of shoreline in Hoodsport was upgraded from Prohibited to Approved by the Washington Department of Health’s Shellfish Program (DOH) on Jan. 31. This mean...
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Interior Secretary Haaland Creates MMIW/P Unit!
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Deb Haaland creates unit to investigate killings and disappearances of Indigenous people
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced a new unit within Bureau of Indian Affairs that plans to tackle the decades-long crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans.
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Good story from KING-5, on how the City of Seattle should finally take seriously the cultural survival of the people who've been disinherited for the
Upper Skagit Indian Tribe: Seattle’s Skagit River dams put treaty rights at risk
Seattle City Light's hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River were built on the Upper Skagit's ancestral lands, but the tribe was never consulted about the project.
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Self-Care during COVID-19 Pandemic!
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The #vaccine protects you from getting really sick with COVID-19 disease, but we still need to protect elders and others in our community until everyone
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Haaland to Create MMIW/P Unit! thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/546102-haaland-to-create-unit-to-investigate-missing-and-murdered-native?amp
Haaland to create unit to investigate missing and murdered Native Americans
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the U.S.’s first Indigenous cabinet secretary, will create a unit within the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to investigate missing and murdered Native Americans, the department announced Thursday evening.
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Eloquence has always been honored by Native peoples.
A first for Washington state: a Native American poet laureate
A member of the Lummi Nation, Bellingham writer Rena Priest will bring attention to local poetry, climate change and the loss of vital natural resources.
Nakani Native Program updated their status.
When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been
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US Rep Newhouse Renews Request MMIW Federal Office in Yakama, WA www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/newhouse-renews-plea-for-special-federal-office-in-yakima-to-focus-on-missing-murdered-indigenous-women/
U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse of Sunnyside continues to push for a federal cold-case task force office in Central Washington focused on missing and murdered Indigenous women. The closest such office is in Billings, Montana.
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Wrangell Kaats'litaan Dancers Honor Vietnam Veterans! www.ktoo.org/2021/03/30/in-wrangell-kaatslitaan-dancers-honor-vietnam-vets/?utm_content=buffer54318&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
In Wrangell, Kaats’litaan Dancers honor Vietnam Vets
This week marks 48 years since the last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam after the Vietnam War. A Native dance group from Wrangell joined a virtual event to honor veterans of the conflict.
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