Values & Guiding Principles

WomenSpirit Coalition mission:  Eliminating Violence Against Native Women and Promoting the Well-Being of Native Families and Communities.

WomenSpirit Coalition Values

As Native Women and Allies, we embrace these values:

  • Empowerment of survivors
  • Restoration of spiritual & traditional practices that promote healing from trauma
  • Grassroots organizing to end violence
  • Human rights advocacy
  • Local focus with global views of anti-violence work
  • Respectful & non-violent in our relationships
  • Inclusive
  • Humor as a healing tool
  • Restorative justice
  • Cultural competence / Cultural Privacy
  • Native-centered approach
  • Sovereignty & self-Determination
  • National leadership

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American Indian/Alaska Native women are sovereign

All Native Women have inherent rights to:
  1. Choose her unique path in Life without fear of reprisal.
  2. Attain self-governance in order to make her decisions without others’ approval or agreement.
  3. Secure resources she need including housing, food, clothes, transportation and other necessities.
  4. Find her voice, in order to speak freely for herself in her own way, to define her own reality, experiences, and self – identity.

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