Voices of the Sacred

04/04/2020

Hey Yall,
It's Krystal Two Bulls here! Ive been meaning to make this announcement since January 1st! lol However, as life goes, things got busy and The Rona hit! lol I was awarded the Lannan Foundation's Cultural Freedom Fellowship to further my work with Voices of the Sacred around decolonization, anti-militarism, environmental justice and the Rights' of Indigenous Peoples. I recently stepped off staff from About Face: Veterans Against War and am now the full time Director of Voices of the Sacred.

Voices of the Sacred has been a long time dream and vision of mine. I started out back in 2015 (and even a few years before that) with expressive arts workshops for youth. My original thought was to give voice to those that we as Native Peoples hold the most sacred, our youth. Often times, our youth are the most silenced in this world. But to me, they hold the key to our future as a People.

Over the years we have evolved and I have been blessed with many experiences nationally and globally. Voices has moved homes several times as an affiliate and program of larger organizations, but has now found a home with the NDN Collective. We are moving to get our own 501c3 status, but for now, are honored to be a part of the NDN Collective family.

As a result of my experiences working with youth, organizers and veterans from around the world, I expanded Voices of the Sacred's mission to focus on these two demographics. Youth hold the key to our future and have a need for experience, skills and knowledge to create that future. Veterans have experience, skills and knowledge that needs to be translated to serving our communities. I know that if I find a way to invest in these two groups in our community, they can create the change we seek. Our new mission is to develop the next generation of healthy organizers from Native Youth and Native Veterans.

I know some have been seeing our mutual aid work, delivering Emergency Care Packages to the elderly, immunocompromised and Relatives with no access to resources and no vehicle in our Northern Cheyenne communities. This is just one example of what veterans and youth are capable of. Mutual aid work is necessary in these times, but is not the change we seek. As organizers we will strive for lasting change and growth. Our focus will be healing, developing skills and knowledge to develop systems that serve the People and gaining the needed experience to create a just world our Ancestors will be proud of.

Néá'ėšemeno to everyone that has invested in and believed in me over the years. The people who have guided me, mentored me and picked me up when I made inevitable mistakes. It is now my turn to to invest in and believe in our youth and veterans the way they deserve. Please follow us, stay tuned and get ready for this crazy ride! ❤

Lannan Foundation is a family foundation dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity and creativity through projects which support exceptional contemporary artists and writers, as well as inspired Native activists in rural indigenous communities.

03/21/2020

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In an effort to help support Indigenous business owners and independent contractors, AIBL has partnered with Voices of the Sacred to help circulate and create a list of individuals that have had to cancel contracts or have lost revenue due to the current CoronaVirus situation.
The idea is simple: when you need to buy something, check this list first to see if you can support an Indegenous business or independent contractor. It's like shopping local for our Indigenous community. This isn't just a list of services or goods for purchase, this is a way we can mutually support our relatives as much as we possible. These are hard times, but together we are going to come out of this stronger because we support each other!
Sign up at link below:

http://www.aibl.org/indigenous-owned-businesses

03/31/2018

This is what the power of youth voices looks like ✊🏽💕

12/07/2017

Greetings Relatives ,
Voices’s Director of Expressive Arts and True Pride Music’s MC Rhetorik and Kooper Indigenize Curley are out at the 2017 Native American Youth Leadership Conference today and tomorrow in Flagstaff AZ. There are over 500 youth participants in attendance!

In todays sessions they’ll be making the connection between Cultural Identity and Hip Hop Philosophy.

-Blessings.

11/28/2017

Relatives, if you feel in the Giving Spirit today, please have a listen to some of the work we do here at Voices of the Sacred, and donate to support the continuation of this work.

Part of the process of colonization was to silence our voices, to ignore us and to erase our histories. So we work to undo that process and decolonize ourselves. The Voices of our young people are so powerful and we are excited for some new programming this next year to empower those voices.

Please support with what you can so the voices of our young people can be heard!
Nea’ese

*Its simple. Click link below. Enter donation amount. Yes, we are a 7GenFund affiliate. Voices of the Sacred.

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A collaboration between youth at the 2nd Annual Ultimate Warrior Camp youth participants, Voices of the Sacred and True Pride Music artists. Youth spent time developing their creativity, learning writ

11/22/2017

“To me what you just did tonight, you represented the power of music. And what it can do and how changing it is. And not only did you do that, but you showed what this show is about.

It’s about having a voice! Its about using that voice.

And the most powerful thing about music is we can sing our realities through that music. And I feel like you did that...you consumed the room and you took us all in with that performance.”
Jennifer Hudson

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