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Visioning B.E.A.R. heads west with its message
The local group Visioning B.E.A.R. Circle Intertribal Coalition will expand its prevention work to keep children safe using an indigenous circle process with a $50,000 grant it recently received from RALIANCE, a national partnership dedicated to ending sexual violence in one generation.
Visioning B.E.A.R. Director, Strong Oak Lefebvre, presents at Leadership Education and Advancement for Professionals event for the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault
Strong Oak Lefebvre is currently the President of Board and founder of the Visioning B.E.A.R. Circle Intertribal Coalition, American Indian of Maliseet and MikMaq descent. Strong Oak is co-author of the Walking in Balance with All Our Relations teaching curriculum.
Visioning B.E.A.R. awarded grant by Just Beginnings Collaborative
Strong Oak Lefebvre is currently the President of Board and founder of the Visioning B.E.A.R. Circle Intertribal Coalition, American Indian of Maliseet and MikMaq descent. Strong Oak is co-author of the Walking in Balance with All Our Relations teaching curriculum.
Visioning B.E.A.R. receives big grant from Raliance to pursue its work in Building Leaders to Keep Children Safe in Communities of Color Using Indigenous Circle process
Visionig BEAR Circle Intertribal Coalition in Greenfield, MA sill expand prevention work to keep children safe using indigenous circle process…
Statue of Chief Standing Bear donated by State of Nebraska to National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington, D.C.
Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca people played the key role in United States ex rel. Standing Bear v. Crook, the 1879 legal case that established that Native Americans were “persons” under the law. In his Ponca language, he was known as Maⁿchú-Naⁿzhíⁿ or Macunajin.
In Turners Falls, Pocumtuck Homelands Festival connects younger generations with ancient traditions, ethics
TURNERS FALLS — The thump of handmade drums, the whistle of a wooden flute and the chants of Native American singers could be heard throughout the second annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival at Unity Park Saturday.
