The Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians launched the Cahuilla Language Program in 2019, with fluent adult speakers mentoring future adult teachers online once a week. A preschool curriculum was also d
A long-ago photo of desert naturalist Elizabeth Paige as a young girl with her grandmother, who taught her about her Native lands. When Elizabeth Paige was a child, her “tutu” (grandmother) took her o...
Through First Nations’ Climate Change and Environmental Justice work, which started in July 2022, First Nations has been working to learn more about the intersection of climate preparedness and workf...
Since 2008, Red Cloud Renewable has trained over 1,100 Native individuals from more than 70 tribes on how to build and install solar furnaces, roof panels, water pumps, and lighting at its 10-acre ca...
First Nations Development Institute’s Native Fundraisers Community of Practice (or NFCOP) is a community of Native fundraisers, trainers, and facilitators who come together with a collective purpose ...
Helen poses on a small ferry boat in Saint Lucia headed to her daughter’s home. Behind her, a rainbow arcs over the Saint Lucia volcanoes, known as the Pitons. Helen Hobart is a California girl ...
As a part of First Nations’ Climate Change and Environmental Justice work, which started in July 2022, First Nations has been honored to lead the Regional Dialogues on Climate Resiliency project. Thr...
In 2011, Walt Pourier (Oglala Lakota) had a vision. The well-known artist and owner of Nakota Designs thought the best way to keep Native kids out of trouble and off the street is to get them on a sk...
THANK YOU to the more than 5,560 supporters of First Nations’ COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund COVID-19 brought devastating loss throughout the world, and especially in Indian Country. The lack of foo...
The Aleut Community of St. Paul Island (ACSPI) is a federally recognized tribe of more than 1,800 enrolled members from St. Paul Island, the largest of the five Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea and ...
Since time immemorial, languages have been passed down in the home, from parent to child. It is how languages survive ― and cultures thrive. Halay Turning Heart speaks only Yuchi to her three young ch...
The green-energy agenda coming out of Washington, D.C., is being touted as the panacea to climate change. But at what cost to some Native American communities? People of Red Mountain, a group from the...