Thirty years ago, three Native women — Peggy Bird (Kewa), Darlene Correa (Laguna Pueblo) and Genne James (Navajo) — lit a fire that has never gone out.
In 1995, they founded the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women so that survivors would be believed, advocates would be supported and tribal communities would have a voice strong enough to move systems. They built CSVANW with a simple promise: We will not leave our relatives behind.
Three decades later, that promise guides everything we do.
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