Red Hoop Talk EP 97: Sandy White Hawk, Sicangu Lakota
Sandra White Hawk is a Sicangu Lakota adoptee from the Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota. She is the founder and Director of First Nations Repatriation Institute.
First Nations Repatriation Institute (FNRI) is the first organization of its kind whose goal it is to create a resource for First Nations people impacted by foster care or adoption to return home, reconnect, and reclaim their identity. The Institute also serves as a resource to enhance the knowledge and skills of practitioners who serve First Nations people.
Sandra organizes Truth Healing Reconciliation Community Forums that bring together adoptees/fostered individuals and their families and professionals with the goal to identify post adoption issues and to identify strategies that will prevent removal of First Nations children. She has also initiated an ongoing support group for adoptees and birth relatives in the Twin Cities Area.
Sandra is an Indian Child Welfare consultant and is a trainer for the Tribal Training Certificate Partnership, University of Duluth, Minnesota. Sandra has become a spokesperson on the issues of the adoption and the foster care system and how it has impacted First Nations People. She has traveled throughout the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Australia, Japan, and Alaska sharing her inspirational story of healing. She served as Commissioner for the Maine Wabanaki State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission and served as an Honorary Witness of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Residential Schools in Canada.
@russburton1618
December 24, 2025 at 7:57 am
Fascinating what Sandy was sharing about children and their origin. Nisargadatta Maharaj, while giving talks in the eighties in his getto flat in Bombay to visitors from around the world, for free, while he was dying of untreated throat cancer was saying essentially the same thing. If I understood Sandy correctly. He said that until the child arrives, the parents are just pregnant. So with birth, the arrival of the child creates the parents and not the other way around.
@russburton1618
December 24, 2025 at 7:57 am
Thank you Sandy White Hawk and Jennifer Robin. My first Red Hoop Talk. From behind the sun, true primal wisdom; the mind stream of very amazing beings, shared here. Not too long ago I asked a well known and popular ai platform about the genocide in Tibet, past ~ present ~ and to come. The informations was there within a spilt second, miles of it. Then the question was introduced, how is this in anyway different from the Native Americans living here now? After five or ten years minutes of the little circle going round and round; there was nothing. That said, thank you again.
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