SPIRIT LINE ALBUM AND GUIDE
SPIRIT LINE: WOVEN TOGETHER FOR OUR MISSING & MURDERED INDIGENOUS RELATIVES
Ch’ihónít’i (spirit line): the weaver’s pathway for traveling spirits
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Spirit Line was originally released as a CD in August 2019 during 3SC event “In Solidarity” at the Santa Fe Indigenous Center, proceeds were donated to the Sovereign Bodies Institute. In honor of national MMIW Awareness Day, we are now re-releasing it for free streaming and downloading via Soundcloud, in tandem with an Educational Resource and Listening Guide.
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It is our collective prayer that our album, Spirit Line: Woven Together For Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives, will be used as an educational resource for your community, school, or organization. The supplemental listening guide is designed to work with the album to help facilitate deep listening and create an opportunity for healing through guided movement, storytelling, and community engagement. Together we can inspire change and action to address the MMIR epidemic.
In Solidarity!
Clara Natonabah & Three Sisters Collective
O’ga P’ogeh, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2021
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Trigger Warning: Due to explicit content discretion is advised.
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Creative Director: Clara Natonabah
Produced by: Ishita Sinha
Album Mastered by: Kaushlesh “Garry” Purohit
Co-Funded by: Clara Natonabah & Three Sisters Collective
Album Artwork and Design by: Nicole Neidhardt
Media and Presentations from our MMIWGT2S Day of Awareness event on May 3, 2020:
If you missed our event, please watch the recording of the presentations by people doing work related to MMIWGT2S:
2020 MMIWGT2S Day of Awareness Presentations
Not Another Statistic by Santa Fe Indian School Performing Arts 2020
HOW TO BE A BETTER ALLY
- Transfer the benefits of your privilege to those who have less
- Acknowledge that the conversation is not about you
- Educate yourself on the history of Indigenous Peoples
- Seek out Indigenous created/supported resources
- Remember that Indigenous Peoples are the experts of their own realities and histories
- Learn about and acknowledge the ancestral lands you’re on (check out native-land.ca)
Local groups to know/follow/support
Tewa Women United
Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women
Santa Fe Indigenous Center
National organizations to know/follow/support
Urban Indian Health Institute
Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Violence on the Land, Violence on our Bodies Initiative
Sovereign Bodies Institute
MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN, GIRLS, TRANS, & TWO SPIRITS
#MMIWGT2S #MMIWG #MMIW
Cities with highest number of MMIWG cases in 2017*:
Seattle, WA (45)
Albuquerque, NM (37)
Anchorage, AK (31)
Tucson, AZ (31)
Billings, MT (29)
Gallup, NM (25)
States with the highest number of MMIWG cases in 2017*:
New Mexico (78)
Washington (71)
Arizona (54)
Alaska (52)
Montana (41)
California (40)
*as reported by the Urban Indian Health Institute
For more information, please visit these websites:
Justice for Native Women
Urban Indian Health Institute MMIWG report
Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women – MMIW
Walking With Our Sisters
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Three Sisters Collective 