Julian Brave NoiseCat
Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. He is the first Indigenous North American filmmaker ever nominated for an Academy Award and the first Indigenous North American author to ever write about healing from intergenerational trauma by getting stoned with his dad in the pages […]
Global Indigenous Data Alliance
The Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA) advances Indigenous Data Sovereignty, recognizing that the current movement toward open data and open science does not fully engage with Indigenous Peoples’ rights and interests. Existing principles within the open data movement—such as FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable)—primarily focus on characteristics that facilitate data sharing among entities while ignoring […]
Endangered Languages Project
The Endangered Languages Project is a global nonprofit initiative dedicated to sustaining linguistic diversity by supporting the revitalization and documentation of Indigenous, endangered, and minoritized languages worldwide. Operating across borders and disciplines, the project connects communities, researchers, and advocates to confront the accelerating loss of languages—each one carrying unique knowledge, history, and ways of understanding the […]
First Peoples’ Cultural Council
The First Peoples’ Cultural Council is a provincially mandated organization dedicated to the revitalization and strengthening of First Nations languages, arts, cultures, and heritage across what is now known as British Columbia. Formed to address the deep disruptions caused by cultural genocide, FPCC works in partnership with First Nations communities to support the living transmission of […]
Native Governance Center
Native Governance Center is a Native-led nonprofit based in St. Paul, Minnesota, dedicated to assisting Native nations in strengthening their governance systems and capacity to exercise sovereignty. Opening in January 2016 in response to a need identified by Tribal leaders from the 23 Native nations sharing geography with Mni Sota Makoce, North Dakota, and South […]
First Nations Development Institute
First Nations Development Institute’s mission is to uplift and sustain the lifeways and economies of Native communities through advocacy, financial support, and knowledge sharing, envisioning a world in which Tribal Sovereignty is upheld and Native ingenuity and knowledge are honored and respected. First Nations is the most highly-rated American Indian nonprofit in the nation, receiving […]
The Circle Way
The Circle Way is a lightly formalized, lightly facilitated social structure founded in 1998 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to mainstreaming circle process as a transformative shift in how organizations and communities function and work together. Operating without hierarchical structure and instead working collaboratively through relationships of reciprocity, generosity, and trust, The Circle Way […]
Bioneers
Founded in 1990 by social entrepreneurs Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, Bioneers serves as a fertile hub connecting breakthrough solutions for environmental and social challenges with the people who can implement them. The organization celebrates the genius of nature and human ingenuity, spotlighting innovators working on game-changing initiatives in restorative food systems, biomimicry, rights of […]
NDN COLLECTIVE
A powerful Indigenous-led organization working to restore Indigenous power and sovereignty through strategic organizing, activism, grantmaking, and narrative change. NDN Collective recognizes that Indigenous communities themselves hold the solutions to challenges they face, providing resources and support for Indigenous-determined pathways forward. Their work is grounded in three core principles: the interconnectedness of all things, Indigenous […]
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Program
The UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Program safeguards and promotes cultural practices, expressions, knowledge, and skills that communities recognize as part of their cultural heritage. Unlike physical monuments or sites, intangible heritage includes living traditions such as oral storytelling, performing arts, rituals, festive events, traditional craftsmanship, and knowledge about nature and the universe. The program celebrates […]
Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer weaves together Indigenous wisdom and scientific knowledge to reveal what plants have to teach us. Kimmerer, a botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, brings her dual perspective as scientist and Indigenous knowledge holder to explore the gifts of […]
Indigeneity Conversations
Indigeneity Conversations is a podcast series featuring deep and engaging conversations with Native culture bearers, scholars, movement leaders, and non-Native allies on the most important issues and solutions in Indian Country. The series also features excerpts from the Indigenous Forum, a sovereign space and touchstone for Native leaders and non-Native allies at the annual Bioneers […]
Pachamama Alliance
Pachamama Alliance is a global community offering people the chance to learn, connect, engage, travel, and cherish life for the purpose of creating a sustainable future that works for all. Since 1996, the organization has worked in partnership with the Indigenous people of the Sacred Headwaters region of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador to defend […]
The Hopi Elders Prophecy
“We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For” is a text frequently called “The Hopi Elders Prophecy,” widely attributed to a gathering of Hopi elders on June 8, 2000, at Oraibi, Arizona, though some sources indicate it was published earlier in New Age magazines in the early 1990s and may appear in The Seventh Generation: […]