What happens when a family decides to devote themselves to creating a more healing world and gathers materials from nature and engage their own creativity to make toys for children by children? What if this is part of bringing into reality a vision of community healing the harm of generations of trauma experienced by First Nations people? What if the busy parents ask for assistance from a local church group, and a group of elder women joins in?
In October of 2019, some of those Elders from the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bozeman, “Kaalas” in the language of the Crow, brought us to the home of Drs. of Education Megkian and Shane Doyle, where we were welcomed by four of their five children:  6 year old twins, Blake and Quanah Doyle, 9 year old Lillian Doyle and 11 year old Ruby Doyle. They shared with us their vision of the Family Healing Center, and why they created The Native American Children’s Toy Company.

To contact them:  nativeamericanchildrenstoyco@gmail.com

For more photos & information: https://forthright.media/2019/12/28/the-doyle-family-native-american-childrens-toy-company-the-family-healing-center/