This week before July is upon us, and thoughts of what it means to be a citizen fill our minds, hearts, and collective messaging, I am so pleased to be joined by Taylor Pennewell and Rose Hammock of the Redbud Resource Group, an advocacy organization founded in 2020 by Taylor and her cousin Madison Esposito. The Redbud Resource Group believes fiercely that intergenerational healing can occur only when Native voices are valued in every area of public life.
Taylor and Madison's “firsthand experience as modern Native people inspired" them to "create resources that support all communities" in making an often erased population visible again. “Native people are often left out of conversations on issues that impact their communities,” the Group notes, and in their work, they see the impact of this erasure regularly.
As an intervention and disruption of this pattern, the Redbud Resource Group is improving public health outcomes for Native American communities through education, research, and community partnership.
It is generative, growing, and much-needed work in our world going meaningfully beyond land acknowledgments and building bridges between Native and non-native communities. As Taylor and Rose make clear early in our conversation, you cannot separate the fate of any damage done to Native peoples from that done to native lands and plant communities; their healing and success go hand in hand as well. Listen in!
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In first image, Taylor is second from left, and Rose is second from right. Second and Third images g group photos from different Going Beyond Land Acknowledgement trainings held by the Redbud Resource Group in 2022 and 2023.
