We create new opportunities for cultural, health, and economic sovereignty. Through community-driven systems change, we remove barriers imposed by domination culture and empower people to reclaim self-determination and thrive on their own terms.
Dignity
Following through of the love force that flows through us, identity, self worth.
Compassion
Love in action, peace in effect, responding to suffering in others to alleviate it.
Harmony
Harmony, balance, beauty, everything in its right place as it should be (hózhǫ́ in Diné/Navajo)
Pathways to Sovereignty
We provide connections to education, training and services that support communities in developing sovereignty through ten pathways:
All that is natural in the world. Nature. How much of the natural world is allowed to thrive?
The capacity to connect to everything, to each other, to nature. How spiritual is your community allowed to be?
Physical, emotional, social wellbeing. What is the collective health and wellness of your community?
Shared meaning making of a community. Do people deeply honor and practice their heritage and culture?
Relations–connections with others. Do people get along, trust one another, work and create together.
Information, understanding, wisdom. Do you and your community steward your own collective knowledge.
Capacity to think, reflect, grow, adapt. Are you mentally and emotionally well without depending on others.
Our individual experiences, capacity, potential. Can you thrive without depending on people from the outside.
Physical manufactured things. Can you thrive without needing things from outside of your community.
Any resource measured in terms of money. Are you free from compromising your values because of money.
Council of Elders
Our values and principles are guided by the wisdom of the elders
Andrea Alexander
Makah
Economic Sovereignty
Andrea has leveraged over $480 million for Indian Country in areas of Tribal Nation transportation, energy, and telecommunications. She is now working on economic sovereignty, addressing financial literacy issues in native communities to help develop new housing sovereignty models through the Northwest Native Asset Building Coalition (NWNABC), which she founded.
Joni McSpadden
Cherokee Nation
Knowledge Sovereignty
Joni ’s passion to serve has driven every action in her life. Her parents instilled their Cherokee way of life of service to community. Joni owns Granted, a grants management and educational consulting firm working with Native Americans to elevate financial wellness through economic development and de-colonization efforts. She understands and is committed to tribal sovereignty,.
Circle of Stewards
Our work is facilitated by stewards of sovereignty
Carma Corcoran
Chippewa-Cree
Cultural Sovereignty
Dr. Corcoran is an Adjunct Professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program at Portland State University, and directs American Indian Law at Lewis and Clark Law School. She addresses Native societal issues through workshops on Gentle Action Theory and Traditional Ways of Knowing and Being .
Jeff Tomhave
Hidatsa
Indigenous Sovereignty
Jeff is an enrolled (Hidatsa) member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold, and a descendent of the Ho-Chunk and Prairie Band Potawatomi. He grew up learning about tribal politics at the kitchen table before becoming a lawyer and scholar of federal/Indian relations.
Charlene Eigen-Vasquez
Ohlone
Indigenous Sovereignty
Charlene currently serves as Chairwoman of the Confederation of Ohlone People, she travels across the country providing peacemaking training and consulting on matters of Indigenous self governance, peacemaking, leadership skill development and healing from generational trauma tied to colonization.
Neil Takemoto
Hawai'i Kamaʻāina
Community Sovereignty
Born and raised in Hawai'i, I have worked in regenerative community development for 30 years, supporting thriving places, circular economies and systems change. I work with nonprofits, businesses and government in a collective impact initiative to provide greater access to community sovereignty.
Jessica Sandhu
Anishinaabe
Wellness Sovereignty
As a Canadian born healer and yoga teacher of Anishinaabe First Nations and Punjabi Indian descent, I honor the traditional customs of yoga and respect Indigenous culture. As an anti-racist healer and teacher, my goal is to create equity in conference rooms, on the yoga mat, and in coaching sessions.
Solana Booth
Nooksack, Mohawk, Ts’msyan
Spiritual Sovereignty
As an ocean canoe skipper and NW coastal traditional medicine keeper, Solana's vision is to open the doors of Nesting Eagle, a behavioral health and spiritual clinic. She promotes Native American and Alaska Native and First Nations traditional teachings using multiple healing modalities.
Dan Seydel
Identity
Housing Sovereignty
.Dan has dedicated his life to empowering the underprivileged in achieving their own economic sovereignty. He is developing a housing sovereignty program through a 501c3 dedicated to achieving this at the Entrepreneurial Institute of Washington (EIW).
Kavita Shourie
Indus River Valley
Human Sovereignty
I am an ethical entrepreneur of ancient, spiritual practices that examine our relationships with Mother Earth and the current stewardship of land. I am developing an indigenous peacemaking center at a regenerative BIPOC-serving wellness retreat that I am part owner and steward of.
Inspiration
A Nature-Based Path to Achieving True Housing Sovereignty
The Lower Sioux use a nature-based home building system that can bring affordable housing to many
Coalition
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Partner 2
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It is majority indigenous, and majority women in leadership and staff.
It is about individuals and communities retaining their capacity to act, and to steward their own destiny.
We advocate for sovereign housing through nature-based modular construction. We advocate for sovereign health by returning access to ancient natural medicines that are truly effective.
Services
There are many pathways of service that build capacity for cultural, health and economic sovereignty
Start a local program
Let us help you start a cultural, health or economic sovereignty initiative in your community.
Join an advocacy group
Join one of our advocacy groups for sovereign housing or medicine and meet other supporters like yourself.
Discover your role
Let us help you identify your role in growing capacity for cultural , health and economic sovereignty.