Rising Hearts Upcoming Runs
Every Child Matters Rememberance Run
🧡 Orange Shirt Day 🧡
Rising Hearts will be hosting the 2024 4TH Annual #EveryChildMatters 5k Remembrance Run on #OrangeShirtDay
SEPTEMBER 27TH - SEPTEMBER 30TH
Remembering and honoring the thousands of Indigenous children stolen from their families and homelands, forced into Boarding and Residential Schools, and the survivors, and descendants.
Since May 2021, over 12k Indigenous children and bodies have been unearthed from these schools. This is a heartbreaking reality across Indigenous communities as families fight for their return home, for justice for families, and for opportunities to support survivors and build a future that is bright and thriving for our next generations. We will have our Rising Hearts #RunningForJustice virtual team when you sign up.
“Kill the Indian, save the man” was the federal policy to steal our relatives and forcibly commit cultural genocide on our relatives by assimilating us. To date, over 10,000 Indigenous children have been unearthed across the US and Canada. It’s time to call for meaningful healing, truth and reconciliation. It’s time we call on the government for justice and accountability. It’s time we provide and expand mental health services and support for survivors and those experiencing trauma. It’s time that this country acknowledges the injustice they created and harm they have done to the first peoples of these stolen lands. This is history that should be in our school curriculums - not our history erased.
On our registration page, we have webinars for you to watch, books to read, podcasts to listen to, resources to visit, ways to take action as an individual, as community, by the Church, for teachers, for survivors and descendants and more!
We appreciate the Rising Hearts community for your support, for sharing our awareness campaigns, for participating, for donating, and so much more. YOU ARE PART OF THAT! Wopila tanka, many thanks!
We will be donating to Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition and Indian Residential School Survivors Society!
In 2023 Rising Hearts donated $2000 to the Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition and $2000 to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society!
We are asking for your help and continuing support to bring awareness and funds to support the needed programming for survivors, families, and policy efforts to bring justice, healing and accountability.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY
Rising Hearts will be making a donation through this virtual run to Native Wellness Institute, Urban Indigenous Collective and Rising Hearts.
Native Wellness Institute promotes the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health of North America’s Indigenous peoples is our labor of love. The goal of the Native Wellness Institute is to continue bringing about positive changes in the lifestyles, relationships, education, and overall wellness of Native Americans. As the Native Community’s leading social-services resource, our current and future objectives focus on the following main areas:
Healthy Relationships
Youth Leadership and Development
Adult Leadership and Development
Workplace Wellness and Staff Development
Strategic Planning and Program Development
Community Wellness Gatherings, Retreats, and Training
Urban Indigenous Collective supports access to culturally-tailored health and wellness services for self-identified Indigenous peoples in Lenapehoking and the greater NYC area (NY, NJ, CT, PA) through community-based participatory research, advocacy, community programming, and direct services. UIC envisions a world where the rights of Indigenous Peoples and sovereignty are acknowledged and respected with cultural humility. We will model continuous consent and free prior and informed consent and consultation as protocol in each of our programming areas. Working holistically with traditional knowledge keepers and western medicine will enhance the overall mental and physical well-being of our urban Indigenous Community. We see a world where Urban Natives are visible in all spaces and will have access to culturally appropriate resources to support, heal, and live healthy lives.
VIRTUAL INFORMATION:
+ Date: October 11-14, 2024
+ Distances: 5k, 10k, Half Marathon
+ Stickers to purchase!
+ Donate an entry!
+ Donate instead of register
+ Download digital BIB
+ Create a virtual team or join one
+ You can join - Rising Hearts virtual team!
+ Beneficiaries: Native Wellness Institute, Urban Indigenous Collective, and Rising Hearts