Harm Reduction Sisters

🎊 Dear Community! Please save the date: Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 7PM CT for MPWW’s 13th annual ✨BEYOND BARS✨ student reading at Hamline University (Klas Center, Kay Fredericks Room, 1537 W. Taylor Ave, St. Paul).

This year’s capstone event will feature MPWW alumni, teachers, mentors, family, and some special guests who will read powerful poetry, fiction, and essays written by our incredible students. It’s our biggest and much-beloved event of the year! It is a free, in-person event and will also be made available via livestream.

We hope you can join us for another unforgettable night celebrating our students’ work and our wonderful community. 🖤

Harm Reduction Sisters is hiring an Overdose Prevention Coordinator! To learn more about the position and apply, follow the link below:
https://shorter.me/-Ark7
Have questions? Send them to [email protected]! 🩷

Interested in becoming a Rebuilder?

The Native Nation Rebuilders program is a two-year, cohort-based leadership training experience for Indigenous changemakers at every stage in their journey. The goal of ​the program is to strengthen Native leadership and equip changemakers with Indigenized tools and frameworks they can use to help their nations.

The application for our next cohort opens on Aug. 1. Learn more here: https://zurl.co/6VeS

One hell of a second day at the National Native Harm Reduction Summit in White Earth! Huge shoutout to our staff who helped lead presentations today, and to everyone who came to check out our brand-new mobile unit and drug-checking machine. Feeling so much passion, anger, and hope in the presence of all the kickass individuals here reminding us what we're fighting for ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
+ Malcolm X

shared via Good Words

Stop in to the Red Lake Campus to register for Fall 2024. Classes are filling up fast!! Classes begin August 21st.

Please share!

FYI Peeps!

All Harm Reduction Sisters locations will be closed starting at noon today and will remain closed until Friday. We will resume normal business hours on Friday the 19th. Our team will be traveling to White Earth to attend the National Native Harm Reduction Summit, where we will be connecting with our harm reductionist peers from all across the country-- AND debuting our exciting new mobile SSP unit! Stay tuned for updates 😁

Oceti Sakowin Community Academy is seeking to hire a full-time Lakota Language Teacher for the 2024-2025 school year. 🏫🪶 Starting date is August 12th!

The Oceti Sakowin Community Academy (OSCA) is an Indigenous-led education that centers Lakota language, culture, values, and lifeways for students in kindergarten through second grade.

✊🏽 When you join the OSCA team, you are welcomed into a community of dedication, mission-driven, and enthusiastic educators working together to improve academic achievement for Indigenous students by developing and implementing an Indigenized curriculum.

We encourage teachers to work together and have the autonomy to develop lessons that implement the Oceti Sakowin essential understandings across all academic disciplines. The curriculum will feature decolonized pedagogies, land-based learning models, student-centered learning, traditional healing informed lessons, classroom management practices involving restorative justice, and the woope sakowin. 🖤❤️💛🤍

To learn more and apply, visit: ndnco.cc/oscahllt
🔗 Link in Bio under 'Oceti Sakowin Academy'.

If you have any questions, please contact Mary at [email protected] or call 605-510-7770.

Art by .valeur

FYI Duluth Peeps!

"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for what we once held close."

( ✍️ Francis Weller )

Art : Kirsteen Titchener

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Today is for celebrating folks who identify as non-binary and the joy they bring to our communities! Remember: You don't need to confine yourself to one gender. Nature knows no binary! 🦋

🎨: on IG

I’m going!

Anton Treuer will talk about his newest book, Where Wolves Don't Die, at the Duluth Depot Theatre this Sunday, July 14 at 4 p.m. Joining him in conversation is Tashia Hart.

Where Wolves Don't Die is a young adult thriller "about one Ojibwe boy learning to love himself through the love of his family around him."

The event is free to the public, and the theatre is located on the lower side of the downtown Duluth Public Library.

AICHO is co-hosting this event with the Zenith Bookstore. The Indigenous First: Art & Gift Shop will be tabling at the event.

Join Chef Sean Sherman and the Owamni team on Friday July 19 to celebrate three history-making years at the Hahawakpa Anniversary Party!

Free festivities on the river road level of the Water Works Pavilion include dancers, drummers, a pop-up market from the Indigenous Food Labs, and food & drinks available for purchase.

Ticketed, food & drinks-inclusive party ($150, link in bio) on the upper level Owamni restaurant terrace includes a welcome address by Sean Sherman, plant tours with Linda Black Elk, gift bag, chef action stations, buffet station featuring selections from the new Bdokétu (Summer) Menu, and two drink tickets for beer, wine, and zero-proof cocktails.

Revamped Mpls. American Indian Center cafe rolls out new menu The Minneapolis American Indian Center is rolling out a new menu at its Gatherings Cafe after the center’s $32.5 million renovation.

Our new(est) location at the HDC Outreach Center in Cloquet is expanding its hours! We will now be open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 11:00-3:00. Spread the word, tell a friend! 📢

FYI Peeps, this matters!

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Mending the Sacred Hoop will be hosting a sewing circle on Wednesday, July 24 between 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center. This event is meant to be a healing and cultural activity for our relatives affected by domestic violence and sexual violence. Mending the Sacred Hoop will be providing free supplies for ribbon skirt and apron making. Feel free to bring your own project. Registration is required and space is limited to 8-10 people.

Please email Natasha [email protected].

Thanks to everyone who supported us during Give to the Max last week. Even if you weren't able to contribute financially, we appreciate your support of our work. http://www.harmreductionsisters.org

Find us in Grand Rapids every Friday at Lakeview Behavioral Health. 516 S Pokegama Ave, Grand Rapids 55744

OPEN HOUSE, this Friday! In celebration of World AIDS Day, we welcome you to meet our amazing team, enjoy refreshments (hot cocoa included!), pick up supplies and learn more about what we do. 10am-3pm. Invite a friend!!
Damiano Center Suite 216
206 W 4th St
Duluth, MN 55806

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We are in Grand Rapids every Friday 12-5 p.m. Lakeview Behavioral Health.