In a classroom at a small tribal college on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in Fort Yates, North Dakota — home to the Dakota and Lakota Nations — big things are happening. It is here that a group ...
June 26, 2025
Through the Native Youth and Culture Fund, First Nations has been investing in Native communities since 2002, providing financial assistance to support the perpetuation of traditional knowledge, spiri...
June 26, 2025
First Nations’ Tribal Food Systems Research Fellowship is amplifying the voices of tribal food sovereignty scholars by supporting their research and publication efforts. In partnership with the Journa...
March 31, 2025
Protecting the Climate, Healing the Environment The Natural Resources Department of the Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California is ideally positioned to ensure that climate resiliency effor...
March 27, 2025
Across the country, Native communities are cultivating traditional knowledge and experience to steward Native resources and lands in ways that are creating long-term benefits for the environment, soci...
March 27, 2025
Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellows Perpetuate Native Lifeways and Ingenuity There are 574 federally recognized tribes in the United States, along with 400 more that are not federally recognized. Tribe...
March 26, 2025
Held in partnership with Tahoma Peak Solutions, First Nations’ 2024 Food Sovereignty Summit hosted in Suquamish, Washington, centered Native approaches to sustaining Native food systems, caring for la...
December 19, 2024
The Poeh Cultural Center in Pojoaque Pueblo, New Mexico, is a gathering space for preserving Tewa Pueblo culture. As First Nations’ Cultural Treasures Initiative (CTI) community partner, the Poeh pre...
December 19, 2024
An artist from the Okanogan Basketweavers Association, a First Nations community partner, is hard at work. Photo by Jack George. First Nations has long recognized that traditional art is woven into th...
December 19, 2024