I had the privilege of sitting down with Morning Star Gali to discuss a variety of pressing Native issues today. We talked about her roots in the Bay Area, the Alcatraz Sunrise Gathering, the fight to protect land and water, and much more. Morning Star is the founder of Indigenous Justice, and you can connect with her on Facebook and Instagram.

This introduction is on www.indigenousjustice.org

"Morning Star Gali is a member of the Ajumawi band of Pit River Tribe. From 2016-2018 she was a Rosenberg Leading Edge Fellow focusing on the disproportionate impact of the criminal and juvenile justice systems on Native Americans. She has worked as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Pit River Tribe. She continues to lead large-scale actions while helping organize Native cultural, spiritual, scholarly, and political gatherings throughout California. Morning Star is deeply committed to advocating for indigenous sovereignty issues such as missing & murdered indigenous women, climate justice, gender justice and sacred sites protection on behalf of the tribal and intertribal communities that she was raised within."

Great discussion with my sister Sinetta and Dwight over Native Health, including wellbriety and mental health. Sinetta is a Behavior Counselor and works for Native Health in downtown Phoenix, Az. She just great work with our Native community to help them get on the right path.

Dwight Francisco is an enrolled member of the Tohono O’odham Nation. As a spiritual advisor, he helps to provide cultural and spiritual healing to many of our relatives in the Phoenix area including coordinating an effort to build a sweat lodge at the Patina Mountain Preserve, a substance abuse treatment center. Dwight has graciously facilitated many of the Phoenix Indian Center’s Gathering of Native Americans (GONA) through our Prevention Program and through the Urban Indian Coalition of Arizona.

Contacts:

Sinetta Brown Lopez

Email: slopez@nachci.com

Contact Native Health at (602) 279-5262.

Dwight Francisco

Email: Dwight.a.francisco@gmail.com

Nice sit down with Raven from Colorado about the MMIR crisis in the state of Colorado and across the country. Raven is President of the Missing, Murdered, Indigenous Relatives Task Force of Colorado.

Official Website

https://mmirtaskforceco.com

Donate to MMIR

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/MMIRTaskforceCO?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

Official Facebook Page

https://www.facebook.com/MMIRofColorado