Join us this month for Community Conversations Book Club at Red Planet Books and Comics.
In November, CSVANW is reading, “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” by David Grann.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. Her older sister was shot. Her mother was then slowly poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances.
Join us this month for Community Conversations Book Club at Red Planet Books and Comics.
In November, CSVANW is reading, “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” by David Grann.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. Her older sister was shot. Her mother was then slowly poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances.
In this last remnant of the Wild West—where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes such as Al Spencer, “the Phantom Terror,” roamed – virtually anyone who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created F.B.I. took up the case, in what became one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations. But the bureau was then notoriously corrupt and initially bungled the case. Eventually the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in the bureau. They infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most sinister conspiracies in American history.
A true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.
4 out of 5 Native women have experienced violence - 56% of that being sexual violence. In New Mexico, Native women and children experience sexual violence at some of the highest rates. Advocates have been working with survivors of sexual violence in New Mexico for a very long time, and we recognize their hard work and dedication. We are now providing an advanced training for advocates working with Native SA survivors to further their knowledge, capabilities and efforts to end sexual violence in their own communities. Some topics include:
4 out of 5 Native women have experienced violence - 56% of that being sexual violence. In New Mexico, Native women and children experience sexual violence at some of the highest rates. Advocates have been working with survivors of sexual violence in New Mexico for a very long time, and we recognize their hard work and dedication. We are now providing an advanced training for advocates working with Native SA survivors to further their knowledge, capabilities and efforts to end sexual violence in their own communities. Some topics include:
Data Collection Strategies
Sexuality after Sexual Trauma
Trauma and Sexual Assault Offenders
Understanding Jurisdiction & Civil Justice
Sexual Violence Programs in Tribal Communities
Attendees will deepen their understanding of the micro and macro levels of sexual violence as a tool of oppression, understand strategies to work effectively with Tribal Nations, identify and promote methods of healing in their own communities.
CSVANW will be hosting a community gathering in collaboration with Warehouse 508 to call on our Indigenous boys and men to eliminate violence against our Native women and children.
Co-Conspire with us to bring more conversations up front.
We invite all our relatives to join us for free food, a mural and screen-printing workshop, and open mic night.
CSVANW will be hosting a community gathering in collaboration with Warehouse 508 to call on our Indigenous boys and men to eliminate violence against our Native women and children.
Co-Conspire with us to bring more conversations up front.
We invite all our relatives to join us for free food, a mural and screen-printing workshop, and open mic night.
December 13, 2018
2pm – 7pm
Location: Warehouse 508
508 1st St NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Accessible through the Alvarado Transportation Center in Downtown Albuquerque through the following bus routes – 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 93 & 94. For more information, please download the ABQ Ride System Map that also includes the Downtown ABQ Ride Map and the Free Fare Bus Stops.
For more information: info@csvanw.org | (505) 243 - 9199
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