[1] Sarah Eagle Heart is a member of the Oglala Sioux Nation, from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
[2] Eagle Heart has worked in a variety of venues, including in New York City for the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
As a team leader for diversity and social justice, she helped lead the church in 2009 to rejecting the Doctrine of Discovery, which had justified European claims to the Americas.
[1] This organization seeks to create a deeper understanding of the effects of the U.S. Indian Boarding School policy and generational trauma.
This film explores the conflict between Indigenous peoples and European settlers, particularly related to control of the Black Hills, sacred land to the Oglala.
[1] The film explores the conflict between settlers and Native Americans seeking to reclaim the Black Hills, including the perspectives of many Indigenous activists.
The work includes self-help methods for women of color, discussions of intergenerational and personal trauma, and insight into "decolonial therapy".
[7] Eagle Heart had her first child at age 18 and raised two sons Aaron and Brendan Cuny as a single mother while completing her university degrees.