The celebration of life for Tillie Black Bear, the founding grandmother of the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC), on the same day has Human Rights Day Dec. 10, 2021 is only appropriate. The NIWRC has dedicated a Research Poem to the late Tillie Black Bear in her honor to uplift her advocacy for Indigenous Women’s Human Rights on violence against women, in her testimony from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights January 19, 1978. Tillie Black Bear spoke of awareness, activism and recommendations for the epidemic of violence towards our women are still unfortunately very relevant in today’s time.

As part of the research framework used for development, please view the video poem.