Presentations & Interviews

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The first sitting U.S. President to ever apologize for Indian boarding school harms is met with skepticism and a demand for follow-up action. Former CEO of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition and survivor-descendant, Christine Diindiisi McCleave, reacts to the presidential apology and calls out the election politics on the timing. Interviewed by Kare11 in 2021 and 2024, she points out the need to pass the congressional Truth and Healing Commission Act that she helped to write. 

In June 2024, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops published its pastoral framework which included an apology to Native Americans for boarding school impacts. As the former CEO of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition and a generational survivor of Indian boarding schools, I was interviewed by BBC News for my reaction. Watch the video to hear what I have to say about the apology and what is needed in the future.  

While many cities and states consider legislation around psychedlic medicines, there are considerations beyond regulations for clinical use and decriminalization for spiritual, religious, and community use. Consultation with, and protection of, Indigenous Peoples rights and relationships

—as well as the rights of the medicines themselves—

must be included. Learn more about the various regional initiatives to create legal access to these medicines and how to respectfully engage with Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities in the process.  

Watch my presentation at the MAPS Psychedelic Science conference in Denver, CO on  June 21, 2023 -- a Tribal Citizen's perspective on decolonization and the psychedelic movement.

Tune in to the Association on American Indian Affairs' Red Hoop Talk and hear me and Dr. Dawn Davis discuss the cultural and political implications of Peyote use under the American Indian Religious Freedom Act.

Listen in as I deliver a keynote address titled "Boarding School Truth, Justice, and Healing" for the Minnesota Council of Churches' formal launch of their Truth-telling, Education, and Reparations 10-year initiative. 

Watch this presentation that I gave for the National Indian Child Welfare Association on healing historical trauma.

Check out this powerful panel of Native American women speaking about healing with psychedelic plant medicines. I was invited to this panel as part of the Chacruna Institute's Psychedelic Liberty Summit.

I was interviewed by Vox about U.S. Indian Boarding School policies and impacts. My interview provided the narrative for this 13-minute video with testimony from survivors and over 3.5 million views.