Sarah Eagle Heart

Sarah Eagle Heart is an Emmy award-winning social justice storyteller, activist, media strategist, and producer focused on advocacy on behalf of Indigenous Peoples rooted worldview as an Oglala Lakota

4 posts

Opinion

This Indigenous Peoples Day, I see healing, hope, and truth

It is time to call the world to truth and healing. Actually, it is past time in the United States and I celebrate with so many others who have been fighting for this moment of upheaval for decades. Our truth has finally broken through the clouds and is actually seen

12 Oct 2020

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4 Min

By: Sarah Eagle Heart

Opinion

Native American communities are at grave risk of getting COVID-19. Here’s how you can help

While some have said no one could have seen this pandemic coming, I know one person who could have: my 84-year-old grandmother. My grandmother grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the 1930s. At that time, Native Americans were oppressed by the government, which removed their children and

14 May 2020

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5 Min

By: Sarah Eagle Heart

Gender & LGBTQIA+

For the Women’s March, including Indigenous voices is crucial

Four years ago, Indigenous women came together in prayer at the Women’s March in front of the National Museum of the American Indian to raise visibility on the issues of violence against women and the earth, as well as protest the current administration. An Indigenous elder knelt on a

14 Jan 2020

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3 Min

By: Sarah Eagle Heart

Opinion

Not your ‘Sauvage’

Imagine this. You are a 16-year-old girl at a promotional event in which scantily clad women wearing leather, fringe, and headdresses walk slowly around a fire to a tom-tom beat with tipis in the background. The headdressed men lift up one of the women, baring her stomach as she arches

05 Sep 2019

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6 Min

By: Sarah Eagle Heart

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Sarah Eagle Heart

This Indigenous Peoples Day, I see healing, hope, and truth

Native American communities are at grave risk of getting COVID-19. Here’s how you can help

For the Women’s March, including Indigenous voices is crucial

Not your ‘Sauvage’

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