City of Minneapolis, MN The Division of Race & Equity, 18 Dec 2017

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From YouTube: Introduction to ReCAST Minneapolis – Part 2

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This video expands on how communities heal and that, for the most part, communities of color heal collectively. Different people from the community share how they work to heal community.

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For me, my traumatic experiences in my first child about 16 years old and I, remember promising myself that I wasn't going to do my children provide an opportunity for my children and turn out that same way. Well, I successful with my oldest daughter, not having a child as a team, but my second daughter wound up having a baby when she was 15 and and I was discussing. What Paul is that the sad part about it is, is that you know when you are like 15 16 years old.

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You really don't know anything about life and parenting and all that kind of stuff, but I always remember. I had this goal within myself to never have my kids go through the same thing. I was in my life and I.

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A supportive Network person, her name, was wanted to Washington bridges and she was at North High School and she spoke into my life about how resilient it could be and how supportive I can be and how successful I could be. If I went off to college and did some other things so.

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I worked with the urban indigenous population, Native American, but we're also inclusive of global indigenous cultures. So trauma shows up. You know for us, it's the mistrust of systems. It's institutionalized racism. You know, educational disparities. You know a lot of the usual things that you'll hear for communities of color, but there's also the aspect of sovereignty which is unique to Native Americans. You know where, as we're self-governing citizens of our tribal nations so living in a city, though you have all these levels of you about five different levels of government overlapping.

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You, in addition to your city, you have state and tribal government laws too, for.

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Employees I'd like to see like more emotional and support or resources City time, especially after employee receives of our has a bad experience with a customer to deal with it and to sort of bounce back well.

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As an indigenous woman as a person who works with other native people, I think that we really care about taking care of each other. You know we're very family based and we're very community oriented, so we're always looking out for each other and find ways finding ways to support each other is important to us. My.

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Traumatic experience I'm live over and over and that's not having my mother and father here. I lost my parents while I was incarcerated and I. Remember my mother. Look at me to do the GOC.

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But I tell her every day that I understand what it needs to be. A man I thought I was made with the choices I was making.

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You know my mother was not as sickly, but she had health issues, but she was always private. We never knew that. My mother had leukemia I feel.

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Like we are to the question achtung in that our healing part of our healing and liberation is self-determining and having space and capacity, because oppression is all about deficit right. It's all about not enough of this scarcity of that and healing is very much the opposite. It's very expensive!

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It's the space where we can imagine it's our creativity, it's our joy! It's our ability to create culture which why people are fantastic, a and so yeah. It's important to talk about it. It's important to participate, it's important to expand for me. You know, as a black woman, to to expand the lens around again reimagining what it means to heal, to be a healer to offer healing who's capable who's, not who's, served by who's, not and almost thing.

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