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
How a First Nations Apprenticeship Network is Advancing Native Entrepreneurs Across Indian Country Alexandera Houchin, a beginning farmer, tends to her one-quarter-acre organic farm in her tribe’s com...
December 18, 2024
Tina King Washington had more than enough good reasons for starting the Kwiyagat Community Academy on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation. “I knew my tribe needed a school because our kids were not doing...
September 27, 2024
In the far northeast corner of California, in Siskiyou and Modoc Counties, there was quite a mess to clean up. More than 150 years of intensive grazing on this drought-stricken part of the Modoc Natio...
September 27, 2024
The copper mine looms over the Apache people at ceremony on Oak Flat with the circle of protective trucks. It has been a long journey for Apache Stronghold. A journey stretching out over two decades t...
September 27, 2024
On June 6, 2024, the world marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a pivotal day in history that turned the tide of WWII in favor of the United States and its allies in their fight to liberate France an...
June 27, 2024
Xine:wh-ding, Inc., is a Native nonprofit organization based on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in Northern California, and First Nations’ California Tribal Fund and Native Arts, Languages, and Kn...
June 26, 2024
In 2022, First Nations launched the Green Jobs in Indian Country Project, awarding 10 grants averaging $100,000 each to eligible Native organizations developing a workforce to address the increasing e...
June 24, 2024
Storytelling captures the history, heart, and hope of tribal communities. These stories carry impact and help build relationships, understanding, and support for Native nonprofits and causes in the wo...
June 20, 2024