Victim Services Program Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe

12/07/2025

Take a break from holiday preparations and join us for a relaxing sound bowl session Tuesday, Dec 16 at 5:30pm in Wadsworth.

12/06/2025

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don’t call me resilient
like it’s a crown
i wanted to wear

don’t paint me
in gold resurrection
and say “look how she rises"
as if I’m a phoenix
by choice
not necessity

you praise my strength
like it grew wild and free
from power
not grief

but darling—
my resilience
was not a poem
it was a scream

it was duct tape
and deadlines
and trembling hands
on the wheel
and nights crying
on cold linoleum
while the world insisted
i was tough
and had it all together

it was smiling in rooms
where i was bleeding
it was laughing
so no one would ask
why my eyes looked like
they remembered the war

so no
resilience isn’t a compliment
it’s a scar
you named beautiful
because you didn’t want to look
at the wound

it’s the armor
you admired
so you wouldn’t have to ask
why i needed it

you say
“you’re so strong”
i hear
“you can take more”
but what if i don’t want to?

what if
my vulnerability
is more essential
than my ability to
take a hit?

what if feeling my feelings
all the way down
is fierce reclamation
of my authentic self?
what if i want
a life that bares
the naked inconvenient truth
in my teeth
not just the sword
in my smile?

what if i am
just as strong
in my grief
and tender overwhelm
as i am when i’m carrying on
or as you like to say—
walking it off?

what if i’m tired of compliments
that support hiding
the fractures and bruises
so you can be comfortable?

i refuse to be
a crime scene coverup
i refuse to be complicit
in falsifying my truth
so i can win your esteem
like there’s a trophy
for suffering
and a reward for silence

no

i’d rather hear
how brave i am
to be real in a world
that benefits from fakery

how courageous
i am to feel my fear
and still show up fully
shaking and imperfect

that i am a badass
for wearing reckless joy
bigger than my damage

now that, dear patriarchy,
is a compliment

~ Angi Sullins

Art by Tamara Adams Art

11/25/2025

The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Administration Offices will be closed November 27th & 28th for the Thanksgiving Holiday.

11/21/2025

🔗 Hear the full story: https://tinyurl.com/mr466ssp

A new national survey by the Urban Indian Health Institute is working to reveal how widespread traumatic brain injuries are among Indigenous survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Research shows that more than 80% of Indigenous women have experienced some form of violence in their lifetime.

Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, says many survivors of domestic and sexual violence suffer from brain injuries that never get diagnosed or receive proper care.

✍️ Daniel Spaulding | Boise State Public Radio

11/17/2025

11/17/2025

Good morning! Have a beautiful Monday!

11/17/2025

Reminder - Sound Bowls this Wed, 19th at the Wadsworth Community Building.

Take time to reset and restore ☺️ 🏵⭐️

11/16/2025

Hard work but well worth it 💜 PL Wellness Collaborative Pyramid Lake Food Distribution Kooyooe Tukadu Culture, Language & Library Program Sumunumu Program Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe

11/13/2025

Friendsgiving Feast - November 20, 2025, starting at 6:00 pm at the Victim Services Office. For more information, please contact Ari at (775)217-5956.

11/12/2025

Prayers for the family 💔🔥 and for her

Detectives said the remains belong to Challistia Colelay, 16, who was reported missing to White Mountain Apache police on Oct. 27.

11/10/2025

Rock Your Mocs week is here! November 9-15, we're wearing our moccasins to celebrate our cultural identity during National Native American Heritage Month.

Rock Your Mocs started in 2011 as a social media unity event. Wear your mocs any day this week (or all week) and share your photos using and . The original celebration day is November 15th.

Learn more and see photos from around the world at www.RockYourMocs.org