https://badriverharmreduction.squarespace.com/home daily 1.0 2022-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639083230807-IH81DB454HGD8QOJAXWN/bad+river+artwork.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639085139211-8FNPUXD6KY4H5GII2ZUM/expanding+photo+with+sweetgrass.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639089537837-8A8MBDHAI87KUL87ME7K/summer+medicines.jpg Home - Origins: the story of our community Drug use is a community issue; we are convinced that it originated in our communal experience. Challenges we’ve endured continue to shape our current circumstances. By the same token, our endurance is something we can call on in our battle to address the harms related to substance use in our community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639085962645-W5H15RE1AR4KP8IDGFOP/health+fair.jpg Home - Harm Reduction Resources Check out our resources page to see what we offer and how to arrange to get supplies, harm reduction information and support. https://badriverharmreduction.squarespace.com/connect daily 0.75 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639091155684-ESKZFRQGABV5NLTJI5F1/bad+river+border+2.png Connect - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639098569735-KABNL2VQP0X4BRMWHODH/bad+river+artwork.png Connect - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://badriverharmreduction.squarespace.com/harmreductionstory daily 0.75 2022-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639089033323-PS5G38BA8AZP93G7N145/expanding+photo+with+sweetgrass.jpg Our Harm Reduction Story - Our Harm Reduction Story: In 2018, our community—the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa—was awarded a two-year policy grant through the AIDS United Syringe Access Fund to assist in addressing gaps in the Tribe’s ability to care for those at risk of opioid overdose and exposure to HIV due to injection drug use. One outcome of this policy grant was to create a toolkit for tribal and rural community clinics in Wisconsin implementing Syringe Services Programs (SSPs). As we looked at other toolkits for guidance, we appreciated their objective and theoretical approach. However, as Native women who are deeply involved in the daily struggles of people in our community who use drugs, we approach the work of harm reduction with our whole beings (physical, intellectual, spiritual and social) and through a lens of time that encompasses past, present, and future generations. We conceive of the world through personal and community narratives. Stories, for us, contain powerful, healing qualities on par with pharmaceutical medicines provided by state-licensed medical doctors. As Anishinaabeg living in the United States, our ability to recreate reality through the telling of stories is how we have persevered in the face of centuries of existential challenges. In order to be authentic and powerful, we took a subjective, narrative approach. What follows is our harm reduction story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639098026822-GBJ9ZEE3JOBZ9E8SRGUB/islands.jpg Our Harm Reduction Story - “We came to understand that there’s a certain magic to harm reduction. The magic comes from heart acts, which are difficult to explain, document, and reproduce through written words alone. Harm reduction has been passed down from person to person, through the demonstration of acts of free kindness, in service of the public good, clear of judgment and reproach.” The Apostle Islands are a group of 22 islands in Lake Superior, off the Bayfield Peninsula in northern Wisconsin. The largest of these, Madeline Island, was long a spiritual center of the Lake Superior Ojibwe. https://badriverharmreduction.squarespace.com/resources daily 0.75 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639172924384-6Z7GI812HETCDM3NEUMG/imglykit-export+%286%29%281%29.jpeg Resources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639180330994-BFRFBNA30HAR7O5IUAAB/bad+river+border+2.png Resources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639174035673-UT1NN3564TS60IKS6EZS/0806fentanylstrips.jpeg Resources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639173063270-J40ZUT6HW24GW3H76FUC/imglykit-export+%281%29.jpeg Resources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639173655832-AO207HRUI50P9BTZK38L/mentorship.JPG Resources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639174397973-5R2TFUSXQPG3HMSYI64T/smoking+kits.png Resources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639173109380-8RBMM9O7BL0AXONU1L52/syringe+bag.JPG Resources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639172852801-FH1LCL249AOOYB5TLSOO/Supply+closet.jpg Resources - Pictured here are some of the supplies that we offer, including hygiene wipes and alcohol pads, sterile injection equipment like water, cookers and syringes, personal syringe disposal containers, fentanyl test strips, naloxone and safer smoking supplies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639175374244-5P4HD4IOFJ17W1XQO6KH/imglykit-export+%283%29.jpeg Resources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639180388761-HAW7VLZ7SNP4W8IBWKKN/bad+river+border+2.png Resources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639179070342-Y88A8EPUGC4DZ8AEXD0N/bad+river+border+2.png Resources - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://badriverharmreduction.squarespace.com/origins daily 0.75 2021-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639155969686-M3R3ZHJMT5WL69YZDNO5/Harm+Reduction+4.2.20.png Origins - Make it stand out llustrator: Sarah Agaton Howes, www.heartberry.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639172543107-4QOWZVA2QOB9DJX976PD/bad+river+border+2.png Origins - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639172564772-SMCVAY8S6R8CAPYWLJNO/bad+river+border+2.png Origins - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639172194094-CO5AHY7L9WBCP1R29MJ0/Bad+River.jpeg Origins - The Kakagon and Bad River Sloughs, located at the mouth of the watershed on Lake Superior, are listed as wetlands of international importance and cover over 16,000 acres. They harbor the largest natural wild rice bed on the Great Lakes. The grey wolf, Canada lynx, and endangered piping plover are found here. The rice beds maintain genetic diversity in strains that grow around Lake Superior and are harvested using time-honored techniques. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639156859722-WY9MU6YNUO8GHDJTWFE6/odanah.png Origins - Make it stand out Photo taken in Odanah in 1889 of Anishinaabedog and their home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639167206658-W72WKRXM3249LQ9SBTNE/gichigami.jpg Origins - Gichigami—Lake Superior—makes up the Bad River Reservation’s northern border. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639167034566-OGDG15NYVEAYVI8NODTA/womenpng.png Origins - Anishinaabekwe with ceremonial items in Bad River, 1935. L-r: Julia Newago-Mayotte, Lizzie Stoddard-Connors, and Angeline Cedarroot. Holding the Bad River Women’s Veteran Eagle Staff (circa 1870) is the mother of Julia Shibiash-Bennett, who traveled to Bad River from Lac du Flambeau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639172042485-40JOI9J9U8AH37EZWQCE/tobacco+bloom.jpeg Origins - Traditional tobacco, called asemaa in the Ojibwe langauge, is a sacred plant grown and harvested to offer prayers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639171692137-N0W1J66HS9EEHI1IS0KI/chippewa+lake.jpg Origins - Chippewa Lake is an inland wild rice lake within the ceded territories of Bad River and related Ojibwe Tribes. Manomin is “the food that grows on the water.” Chippewa Lake is an inland wild rice lake within the Ceded Territories of Bad River and related Ojibwe Tribes. Manomin is “the food that grows on the water.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639167875431-T28AFATZ5YV0E8TQ09UN/womanchildbeadwork.png Origins - 1900 photo of an Anishinaabekwe and child from Bad River. She is holding up her bead loom and showing off her finished loom beadwork and beadwork applique. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2437f05011b1f37605c04/1639172485949-002OTSHXV8F5MU12Z64K/bad+river+border+2.png Origins - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.