Tag: native-american

December 26, 2024

Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year 2025! My book is still available for purchase through lulu.com and other bookstores. Just google Sky Woman Lives in Me and you should be able to choose where to buy my book. It was written and self-published on February 8, 2016, through Lulu Publishing. It took me fifteen years of research and travel to write this book, based on a true story. Below is a summary of my book, Sky Woman Lives in Me.

Also, on December 20, 2024, the U.S. Senate passed S.1723, the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act, with an amendment through unanimous consent. Now the bill has gone to the U.S. House of Representatives for approval and passage. Please contact members of the Native American Caucus and the Republican co-sponsors of this bill S. 1723 and urge them to pass this bill. When speaking to Congressional Representatives, emphasize that:

  1. This bill is fully paid for and will cost nothing.
  2. All of the conservatives in the Senate signed off with no objections and,
  3. The language is amended to ensure the support of faith-based groups.

For more information go to:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1723.

Learn more about the movement for healing at the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.

Learn more about the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) boarding school healing work at. https://narf.org/cases/boarding-school-healing/

Thank you for reading my blog. Sincerely, Roberta Capasso, Author of : Sky Woman Lives in Me; Member of the Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition; Supporter of Native American Rights Fund; Proud member of the Oneida Indigenous Tribe of Wisconsin.

November 12, 2024

Dear Family, Friends and Others reading this,

Hello! Belated Honors to all Veterans on Veteran’s Day, yesterday and everyday. Without our Veterans we wouldn’t be here with our freedom today. Native American Indians were the largest group to serve in our armed forces. Here is a photo of my late Great Grandparents, Hyson and Sophia, standing with my late Uncle John, who served in the Marines. He fought in the Korean War for our country. Two of my other uncles: Uncle Richard and Uncle Ed, also served in the military to protect our country.

I am glad the Election, 2024 is finished. I am not happy with the outcome. Thank you to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for everything they did to help keep our Democracy. Also, thank you to President Joe Biden for all he is doing and has done to keep our freedom. I also thank President Biden for apologizing to what our government did to Indigenous children by forcing them to attend Boarding Schools here in our country. The U.S. Government wanted to assimilate Indigenous children into the white society. I didn’t know about this till much older in my life. Below is a photo of me around 9 years old, dressed as a TV stereotyped Injun. I wore this costume for Halloween, not knowing anything about my Oneida Indigenous nationality nor my Oneida culture and Oneida language. So, sending my Great Grandmother, Sophia Huff, to the Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding School and my Great Grandfather to Hampton Indian School; definitely worked in assimilating me, my brothers, sisters, relatives to not know who we really a were and are today. Biden’s apology made me cry. God, Our Creator, Bless Deb Haaland for being a wonderful Interior Secretary!

My book, Sky Woman Lives in Me, can be purchased through lulu.com or search on google for bookstores who may sell my book. Thank you for reading this blog. Please feel free to share this. Thank you! Sincerely, Roberta Capasso.