Pueblo Communities Stand Together:

A Journey to End

Domestic

Violence

Kiel Hevewah

Tesuque Pueblo & Santa Clara Pueblo

Sharing One Skin

The Article ¨Sharing one skin¨ by Jeanette Armstrong, She talks about the way we ¨us natives´ identify ourselves. The way we identify ourselves is by knowing where we come from. Where we share our lifestyle at. And the other thing is if we don't know our own language we are losing hope and our culture in our natives ways and where we come from. These all connect us in our community and give native people hope and to be heard by others around us.

The two Articles connect by being indigenous person. The reason why is because the first article called ¨Sharing One Skin¨”connects to me by identifying myself as a Native American. The other reason I say that is because identifying is one of the most important things of being a Native American by knowing our tribal language and knowing where our indigenous lands are. On the other hand the article called ¨How Place Names Impact The Way We See Landscape¨. I say this because the way the stories and memories tie to us have good effects of learning about the past of our ancestors back then and keeping our tradition on and in the future.

Cition :

Armstrong, Jeanette. “Sharing One Skin: The Okanagan Community,” in Jerry Mander and Edward

Goldsmith (eds), The Case Against the Global Economy. San Francisco, CA, Sierra Club Books,

1996. Pp 460-470.

How place names impact the way we see landscape

Toastie Article Talks about stories and memories of our landscape in our community and culture. Stories tell us about a lot, mostly everything about the past. So from reading her article I learned stories tell us so many things. Here the article tells us to listen about our knowledge or the story. Memories are the way we connect to our family and community.

Citions:

Toastie, B. “How place names impact the way we see landscape.” High Country News: Know the West, 1

May 2022,

https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.5/people-places-how-place-names-impact-the-way-we-see-landsc

ape. Accessed 27 August 2022.

"Battered But Not Broken: The Resilience of Pueblo Natives in the Face of Domestic Violence"

Work Cited

Kettler, Sara. “5 Powerful and Influential Native American Women - Biography.” Biography (Bio.), 30 October 2020, https://www.biography.com/news/famous-native-american-women-native-american-heritage-month. Accessed 8 December 2022.

‘Shadow pandemic’ of domestic violence

From reading this article on domestic violence Marianna Yang, a law lecturer and clinical instructor at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School's Family and Domestic Violence Law Clinic, during the COVID-19 pandemic Domestic Violence charts have went up on it because of being home and causing drama and anger in people through this time. Yang stated that domestic abuse has reached record highs all around the world since lockdowns were implemented to stop the spread of the virus. She said that the UN referred to the problem as a "shadow pandemic" in a 2021 report on domestic abuse in 13 countries in Africa, Asia, South America, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans. Yang also mentioned that the American Journal of Emergency Medicine published disturbing trends in domestic abuse in the US, and that the National Domestic Violence Hotline (The Hotline) had its greatest monthly contact volume in its 25-year history in February with more than 74,000 calls, chats, and texts.

Domestic violence crimes have dramatically increased worldwide since the COVID-19 pandemic's outbreak. The United Nations reports that since the pandemic started, violence against women has reached previously unheard-of levels. Since lockdown orders were introduced in 2020, the National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice in the United States has documented an 8% increase in domestic abuse cases. Women of all ages, colors, and socioeconomic levels are impacted by this global issue.

Work Cited

Mineo, Liz. “'Shadow pandemic' of domestic violence – Harvard Gazette.” Harvard Gazette, 29 June 2022, https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/06/shadow-pandemic-of-domestic-violence/. Accessed 13 October 2022.

Work Cited

Botkin, Eva. “How the dark shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic is changing our brains.” Northeastern University College of Science, 30 August 2021, https://cos.northeastern.edu/news/how-the-dark-shadow-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-is-changing-our-brains/. Accessed 8 December 2022.

NM Tribes and Pueblos to Address Domestic and Sexual Violence Response and

Laws During CSVANW 3rd Annual Tribal Leaders Summit

A recent report from the National Institute of Justice found that 4 out of 5 Native women are victims of violence, with 56 percent of Native women reporting sexual violence and 55 percent reporting domestic abuse. If certain requirements are met, such as having law-trained judges and setting up a jury pool during trials, tribes are permitted to use their sovereign power to investigate, prosecute, convict, and sentence both Indians and non-Indians who assault Native women or dating partners or violate a protection order in Indian Country. The Center on Native American Youth estimates that deliberate injury, homicide, and suicide account for more than 75% of all deaths among Native American youth. This means that a large majority of deaths of Native American youth are due to violence. This violence is often caused by the perception among non-Natives that they are free to act however they choose in Indian Country. This leads to certain domestic violence incidents. In order to combat this, the Pueblo of Santa Clara in New Mexico has been working on putting the VAWA into practice for the past year. They intend to apply for a recently created federal grant to put special jurisdiction over non-Indian offenders into place.

From being from Santa Clara this involves my community because I'm half from that.

The Pueblo of Santa Clara in New Mexico is working to combat domestic violence by putting the VAWA into practice. This includes applying for a federal grant to put special jurisdiction over non-Indian offenders into place. This is significant because it shows that the Pueblo is working to combat the issue of domestic violence in their community. This is important because domestic violence is a major problem in many Native American communities.

Work Cited

“NM Tribes and Pueblos to Address Domestic and Sexual Violence Response and LawsDuring CSVANW 3rd Annual Tribal Leaders Summit.” Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, https://www.csvanw.org/nm-tribes-and-pueblos-to-address-domestic-and-sexual-violence-response-and-lawsduring-csvanw-3rd-annual-tribal-leaders-summit/. Accessed 21 November 2022.

The Silent Struggle

The silent Struggle

My action plan was on Friday, 11th of November, I invited Ms. Garcia White and couple students to Ms. Garcia-White room. We talked about my topic Domestic violence and how we can help people that go through it and have the people talk about their own experiences on domestic violence.

Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women

and Men

The issue about this article is that the violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women and men is quite serious. According to the video, American Indian and Alaska Native women are more likely to experience violence than any other group of American women. They are more likely to be the targets of sexual assault and stalking. Violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women and men occurs often for a variety of causes. The effect on Native peoples, the high poverty rate in many Native communities, and the lack of access to law enforcement and other services are a few of these.

The issue of violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women and men can be addressed in a number of ways. These include increasing public awareness of the problem, better access to law enforcement and other services, and increasing funding for programs that offer victim care. After reading this I think this is a major topic on this video because it tells why it is important to Alaska natives and Women and Men around that topic. I think if people didn't talk about this with people around the world , they wouldn't know about it. So this is why I picked this video to talk about because it's based on my topic and talks about the issue around it.

Work Cited

“Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and Men.” YouTube, 20 October 2016, https://youtu.be/ESADNNHM4II. Accessed 13 October 2022.