with foster home placement in our tribe, a lot of children do not have family members to take them in and there are barely any registered foster homes on rez because people don't meet criteria. so the children get placed off rez like my sons did. they were placed with
Black Native families. my youngest was placed w/ a family of 8 of which there was 2 sets of 2-3 siblings from our rez. during covid w/in the past 3 years it's hard to place children in foster homes so they resort to place them in the rez residential youth program aka shelter,
Nov 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I'm always calling out to my 15 yo who's HOH/deaf when he's in the bathroom which is next to our room and you really have to yell for him to hear you if he hears you at all. 13 yo, I barely raise my voice and he hears me very well, he has super ears.
because of this and safety reasons, we tell them not to lock the door. between 15 yo not hearing and 13 yo with his past behaviors and the fact they both lay down in the shower and sleep we are very vigilant on bathroom time.
Nov 7, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
the thing about tribal social services is its run like the outside. they don't have an electronic system or whatever you call it. they lose files all the time. they lost my kids files and when they found them there was nothing in the file. they lost my son in a youth facility
for 8 months. when his new tribal social worker started the very first day or so she said why is he in there all this time he should've been out months ago. she went and picked him up and brought him home immediately. there are rarely if any foster homes available on the rez
starting from the top: u'uhig (birds)
birds are central to akimel o'otham culture especially song culture. in this collage i used the oriole, red-winged blackbird, house finch, and the blue-throated hummingbird. the birds are
