The second edition offers updated research on language revitalization, adolescents and their parental caregivers, Indigenous issues in higher education, and new work on
matrilineality, the Missing and Murdered People crisis, and the continuation of healing traditions in a contemporary context.

At its onset, the American Indian Women of Proud Nations Organization set out to create a space that would uplift Native American women, children, and families because of their central roles in the continuation of Native communities. The contributors to the second edition continue to document and reflect on the organization's initiative and the efforts of Southeastern Native women and their allies to center women, children and families in protecting and strengthening kinship, land, and language as enduring aspects of Native American cultures. The second edition offers updated research on language revitalization, adolescents and their parental caregivers, Indigenous issues in higher education, and new work on matrilineality, the Missing and Murdered People crisis, and the continuation of healing traditions in a contemporary context.

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CHERRY MAYNOR BEASLEY, Ph.D., is the former Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

MARY ANN JACOBS, Ph. D., is a Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

ULRIKE WIETHAUS, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita in Religious Studies at Wake Forest University.

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List of Figures - Dedication - Nadine F. Patrick: Foreword as a Song: We're Still Here - Acknowledgments - Ulrike Wiethaus: Introduction - Lisa J. Lefler: Future of Kituwah (Cherokee) Matrilinearity - Roseanna Sneed Belt: Cherokee Women Heal Boarding School Trauma - Marjorie Joyce (Gatlin) Johnson/Eva Marie Garroutte: Journey Towards Ethnic Renewal - Rosemary White Shield/Rod K. Robinson/David J. Rogers: Community Healing Responses to MMIP - A. Kay Oxendine: Lifting Community Voices to Address NA MMIW - Cherry Maynor Beasley/Ulrike Wiethaus: Blending Traditional and Western Medicine - Tasha Oxendine: Traditional Healing Practices Among Lumbees - Halay Turning Heart (fka Renée Grounds): Breathing New Life into the Yuchi Language - Mary Ann Jacobs and Heather Kimberly Barton Dial Sellers: Decolonizing the University Curriculum - Christy M. Buchanan and Camden B. Jordan: Indigenous Parenting for Adolescent Well-being - Rose Stremlau and Jane Haladay: Indigenous Women's Voices in Higher Education - Contributors - Index.