Native Indigenous Framework
for Healing from Sexual Assault in 2021 By Theda New Breast, MPH (Makoyohsokoyi-Milky Way)
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ative Indigenous knowledge during responsive cultural practices using Ancestral values show promise in preventing sexual assault and restoring families and communities to balance with solid mental health. Rolling out of a COVID-19 pandemic, experiencing increasing violence in 2020 for on and off Reservation families, and grasping the healing efforts of the “Me Too” Campaign with “No More Stolen Sisters” with Intervention of Native Men who immolate “Native Weinstein’s” -- all call for Native Indigenous Practices. 9
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These practices bring ultimate health, healing, wellness and growth from historical trauma past and present. Native Indigenous Knowledge is experiential and often called a pathway or journey to self-actualization; many traditional knowledge keepers are heard to say, “The longest journey is from your head to your heart.”
“The longest journey is from your head to your heart.”
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