DV Annual Conference in Mission… October, 2008

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White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc.

“Serving the Rosebud Reservation since 1977”

P.O. Box 227

Mission, SD 57555

          On October 24 - 25, 2008, along with National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Sicangu Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence, a projects of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. held their annual Survivors and Advocates healing conference in Mission SD. The conference took place at the Site Gleska University multipurpose building in Mission and it was coordinated by the organization as part of their 31^st anniversary week long celebration.

     The given title of this year’s get-together was “Nake Nula Waun, I will be ready for anything, anywhere, anytime”. Mainly geared toward domestic Violence survivors and advocates, the gathering’s main focus was to educate on DV related subjects raging from what is DV to how the federal government responds to violent crimes of such nature in Indian Reservations.