Over the past year, UNC has been working to ensure the health and wellness of all our Indigenous relatives. While attacks on those Native to this land are not new to us, it has been necessary for our collective to focus even more intently on ensuring the security and wellbeing of our community, friends, and neighbors.

As Native People, we continue to face the same colonial violence which has attacked our communities and Nations for over 500 years.

Despite this, we have always fought to dig deeper into our People, ways, and land. The deeper our roots grow, the higher we rise. This year proved what we’ve always known. When we tend to the ground beneath us, when we gather intentionally, when we refuse to be moved, everything else becomes possible.