About Rematriation
Our Mission Statement
Rematriation is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the movement of Rematriation across Turtle Island by uplifting Indigenous women’s voices and raising human consciousness toward living in balance with Mother Earth.
Connect, Represent & Educate
How Rematriation Accomplishes Our Mission
Connect
Rematriation supports Indigenous women gatherings in the restoration of individual, family, and community-based wellness. Rematriation’s programs and content engages Haudenosaunee and Indigenous Sisters across Turtle Island, including Canada, Mexico and New Zealand.
Represent
Rematriation creates opportunities for Indigenous Sisters to attend public events. Visible representation of Indigenous women at public events is a crucial first step towards overcoming stereotypes. We are often called upon in these spaces to share our cultural perspectives and experiences. This allows our voices to be heard, our issues to be addressed and helps build bridges of awareness and understanding. By creating pathways of inclusion, we encourage our women’s leadership to flourish and help create a more equitable society.
Educate
Rematriation offers public education to build allies, share untold history and contemporary issues. Rematriation provides public events and produces articles, podcasts and videos to share across our digital platforms. Rematriation aims to claim space in public media for sharing authentic Indigenous women’s truths. Our voices have been silenced for hundreds of years. Our presence has been excluded for far too long. Indigenous women and Peoples are now sharing our truths with the strength of our ancestors behind us. Rematriation is here to uplift these truths.
Our Vision
Rematriation is the realization of a life long dream by our Founder, Michelle Schenandoah. In middle school she saw her U.S. history book only had two pages dedicated to Indigenous history, which did not reflect even her own people. This continued throughout her educational experiences from Ivy League to law school. In her early 20s, while riding the subway in NYC, she noticed Black and Latina women enjoying magazines designed just for them. As an Indigenous woman she wondered, “Where’s my magazine?” Two decades later in 2016, Schenandoah founded Rematriation as the answer to this lack of representation and the chasm of understanding about Indigenous peoples, culture and contemporary lives. Today, Rematriation creates films and podcasts, and spaces of community engagement centered on healing and public education. Rematriation’s team continues to re-imagine the ways to shift narratives, defy stereotypes, and reflect our own experiences.
