My Work

Writings

Healing from Colonization

Finding Home

Reparations: Repaying the Unpayable Debt

Is Forgiveness Possible?

The Challenges of Forgiveness

The Blood Knows

Kinship and Climate Justice

Tribal Appropriations

Conversation with Basil Brave Heart

Ancestors

Invitation to White Relatives

Let us dissolve our shame by waking up and joining hands. Let us build the strength to dismantle systemic white supremacy, treasure Black lives, support Indigenous sovereignty, and act in solidarity with BIPOC-led movements for the wellbeing of Life. Let us re-member how to belong to this beautiful planet, together.

Book

Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing, and Repair (Green Writers Press, 2024)

Foreword by Iyanifa Luisah Teish

Closing Words by Lyla June Johnston, PhD

In relationship with Indigenous peoples, places, worldviews, and movements, Giovale discovers that she is a ninth generation American settler, whose ancestors benefited from grants of stolen land, the stolen lives and labor of enslaved peoples, and systemic racism.

She embarks on a process of healing, inviting readers into stories of ancestral memory, intuitive ways of knowing, relationships with water and land, grieving, truth-telling, apology, and forgiveness. The journey encompasses bridge-building, reparations, and solidarity with communities of Color.

This book is intended to support the well-being of all peoples and the Earth. Using reparative frameworks, Hilary returns all income from this work to Indigenous and African American communities. Pre-order a signed copy here.

Media

Central Fire

Diné elder Marie Gladue tells her story of the Navajo Long Walk, historical trauma, and healing through relationship with sacred landscape.

Voices of Support for the Long March to Rome - New Mexico

Voices of support for the Long March to Rome, a movement of Indigenous leaders to petition Pope Francis to rescind the Papal Bulls of 1455 and 1493. These papal orders have underpinned countless human rights violations for the past 5 centuries.

Voices of Support for the Long March to Rome - Arizona

Voices of support for the Long March to Rome, a movement of Indigenous leaders to petition Pope Francis to rescind the Papal Bulls of 1455 and 1493. These papal orders have underpinned countless human rights violations for the past 5 centuries.