Many Native students face bias, low expectations, and unfair treatment in schools, creating environments where they feel judged rather than supported. This harm reflects ongoing patterns rooted in historical trauma and systemic inequality. Naming these experiences is necessary to create change and remind our children they are not the problem. They deserve respect, safety, and the opportunity to succeed.

How narcissism, patriarchy, and lateral harm move through tribal spaces and how we can come back to each other.

This blog, written by Sunshine Thomas-Bear, applies the Ten Stages of Genocide framework to Ho-Chunk history and present-day realities. It examines how genocide can operate not only through violence, but through policy, paperwork, division, and time, while also reminding us that healing, restoration, and cultural continuance are processes we can actively choose.

Before colonization, Ho-Chunk life was rooted in balance and shared responsibility, with women at the center of family and community. Patriarchy was imposed, not traditional. Today, restoring women’s voices is part of decolonization, not rewriting our ways, but returning to them.

A Ho-Chunk reflection on where Christmas came from, what was interrupted, and how we return.

A look at where it came from and why it’s hurting us

WOIPERES did not begin as a project.
It began as a prayer.

This screening was born from a moment of inspiration and connection.