We survive war and conquest; we survive colonization, acculturations,
assimilation; we survive beating, rape, starvations, mutilation, sterilization,
abandonment, neglect, death of our children, our loved ones, destruction of
our land, our homes, our past, and our future. We survive, and we do more
than just survive. We bond, we care, we fight, we teach, we nurse, we bear,
we feed, we earn, we laugh, we love, we hang in there, no matter what.

—— Paula Gunn Allen,

The sacred hoop: recovering the feminine in American Indian traditions

“A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground.”

traditional Cheyenne saying

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Speak up. Speak out. We’re not going back.

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