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Welcome & Opening to Practicing the Social

  • Mona Stonefish

Elder Mona Stonefish speaking on stage.
Elder Mona Stonefish (Bear Clan) speaking on stage. Her grey hair is in two long braids, and she is wearing a long blue scarf over a black shirt. She is holding a microphone.

Mona Stonefish (Bear Clan) is an Anishinaabe Onkwehón:we Elder, Doctor of Traditional Medicine, international activist, Senator of the Anishinaabemowin Teg – language preservation, a Keeper of Wisdom, and a Grandmother Water Walker. Mona Stonefish is also a member of the Native American Museum of Washington D.C., a traditional dancer, and recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013). She and her granddaughter Sky Stonefish support and teach one another, confront discrimination, and fight to tear down barriers in their travels together.

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