10/12/2026
My grandmother, Harley’s great-grandmother, was a boarding school survivor. She lived through a system that was built to take away our language, our families and our ways of knowing. Even after all of that she held onto a dream for me. She wanted me to get an education.
I became the first person in my family to go to college but I will not be the last.
Going to school was the answer to my grandmother’s dream, but it didn’t stop with me. That fulfilled dream made it possible to start Acorns to Oak Trees. It gave me what I needed to help my daughter Harley and so many other children like her. Every one of these kids is also their ancestors’ dream.
To us, this is what resilience looks like. It is more than surviving. It is carrying something forward so the next generation can grow a little stronger than the last. The mightiest oak tree was once a little acorn who held its ground. ❤️
Today we honor the ones who came before us, the ones who are here now and the ones still to come.
