The Rise In Love Foundation

02/15/2026

🎥 17th Native Women in Film Festival | March 8–13, 2026
Academy Awards Week

It is a profound violation of human rights when our women and children go missing or are murdered. It is equally a violation when Native and Indigenous women are absent from film, episodic television, and all forms of media. Violence against the land is violence against women.​

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02/15/2026

🖤 One year ago today, 14-year-old Emily Pike was found murdered.

Her body was discarded in trash bags off Highway 60 in Arizona. She was a child. Someone hunted her. Someone brutalized her. Someone thought they could throw her away and that monster is still out there.

Let that sit.

A 14-year-old Indigenous girl was brutally killed and this is not national headline news.
❓ Why isn’t this headline news?
❓ Why isn’t there national outrage for a 14-year-old Indigenous girl?
❓ Why does an Indigenous child not warrant the same outrage?

🕯 Say her name: Emily Pike.
📢 Share her story.
⚖️ Demand accountability.

02/15/2026

02/15/2026

02/13/2026

The First Shelter

Before the child learned the sound of its own name,

it learned warmth.

The elders say this is how life begins not with breath,

but with being held.

The mother did not shape the child.

She made space for becoming.

Her body remembered how roots hold soil,

how rivers curve to protect their banks.

Within that circle, fear did not enter.

Time slowed.

The world waited its turn.

The child listened to a heart that had already chosen sacrifice.

Not as duty,

but as instinct older than language.

The elders teach this quietly:

A mother is not only one who gives life.

She is the first land.

The first law.

The first promise that says:

You may stay.

And long after the child walks away,

that shelter remains

woven into spirit,

unchanged by distance,

unbroken by years.

Because some protection

does not end.

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I don’t have all the words.
I have art, and this is how I show up. 🤍

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