She:kon sewakwe:ko!

Hello, everyone! Welcome to the Women Are Medicine Health Initiative blog. WAMHI (pronounced wam-ee) is the second nonprofit founded to continue and expand the Mission of Muriyd "Niish Akumahkwak" Williams (Two Clouds), an Afro-Indigenous land defender and sovereignist who was found dead in July 2022 under very suspicious circumstances.

As an enrolled member of one of three state-recognized Lenape tribes in New Jersey, Two Clouds not only advocated for his grandmother's people, he fought and won back dozens of acres of stolen land where he hunted, fished, and lived in every way. He was always "in the bush" praying to the One Creator, contemplating the divinity of creation, and sitting in deep meditation. During one of his meditative states, he received a song in his ancestral Munsee tongue. He said the song was called Women are Medicine. In many worldwide Indigenous cultures medicine represents life, balance, nurturing, strength, wisdom, ancestry, legacy, prayer, spirit, and sacredness.

After Two Clouds' burial ceremony, his mother Mumtahanah got right to work preserving his legacy and continuing their work. The following week, she founded Beyond Clouds, an advocacy initiative which strives to lessen the gap in disparities towards red, Black, and brown people globally. Approximately four months after that she founded WAMHI which focuses on "cis gendered" women and girls of color who face challenges and oppressions unlike any other group.

WAMHI is a matriarchal space that is inspired by the Qur'aanic teaching that woman and man are two halves of one soul (4:1). As everything else in nature, human beings were created with a divine balance that we must once again embrace if our goal is to reclaim true sovereignty in all aspects. To begin, we will reclaim the Woman- in all her non-performative realness.

Pull up a sit to the table and let's break bread as we share in our wisdom, and we learn from one another.

Nia:wen ki'wahi.