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  • Protecting children and healing families, one Native auntie at a time

    Nancy Marie Spears

    May 24, 2023 |

    The Imprint |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Luiseño, United States, San Diego, California

    My Two Aunties assists Indigenous families to help keep children out of foster care. The group provides parenting support and education, seeks to build relationships between families and their culture and also works to repair intergenerational trauma that can lead to creating an unsafe environment for children. In 2022, the program served 97 families and held 411 parenting classes and interest in the program is continuously growing.

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  • Solutions and Struggle: Native American tribes receive federal COVID-19 relief |

    Mackenzie Wilkes Nancy Marie Spears Beth Wallis

    August 15, 2021 |

    News21 |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Blackfeet Nation, United States, Montana

    During the pandemic, indigenous communities received massive federal funding through the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, and the Relief and Economic Security Act for a number of needs, like infrastructure and tribal housing improvements. Many indigenous entities received smaller funds too. But COVID exacerbated several long-pending and neglected issues, local officials and tribal members say, and the funding does not sufficiently address them in the longterm.

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