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Webinar Series: Our Language, Our Legacy
Webinar Series: Our Language, Our Legacy
Stories of Truth, Solutions, and Action Across Indian Country Building on the momentum of First Nations’ spring campaign, “Language is Life,” this 2025 summer webinar series elevates the work Native communities are doing to revitalize and sustain their languages. Centered on a t...
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Environmental Sovereignty and Justice
Environmental Sovereignty and Justice
Through the Environmental Sovereignty and Justice Initiative, First Nations provides direct funding and technical assistance to Tribes and Native-led organizations that are defending tribal homelands from harmful policies, extraction, and pollution. Foremost, this project is centered on supportin...
Tribal Organic Research Webinar Series
Tribal Organic Research Webinar Series
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Exploring Economic Justice and Philanthropy: Perspectives from Native American Organizations | First Nations Development Institute
Exploring Economic Justice and Philanthropy: Perspectives from Native American Organizations | First Nations Development Institute
The Face of Disruption: Impacts of USDA Funding Cuts on Tribal Food Systems
The Face of Disruption: Impacts of USDA Funding Cuts on Tribal Food Systems
First Nations is committed to helping tribes and Native non-profits nationwide. The Native Agriculture and Food Systems Investments program serves Native communities to advance Native food sovereignty and security, strengthen tribal food economies, and support the living relationship between comm...
Climate Change and Environmental Justice Publications
Climate Change and Environmental Justice Publications
Native Justice Essays
Native Justice Essays
Exploring Native Justice In Native communities, there are increasing calls for justice, the return of Native lands, the repatriation of Native bodies and sacred objects, and an acknowledgement of the historical wrongs perpetuated against Indigenous peoples. But what exactly does Native justice lo...
First Nations Projects & Programs
Learn about our Tribal Lands Conservation Fund
Learn about our Tribal Lands Conservation Fund
Climate Resiliency in Indian Country
Climate Resiliency in Indian Country
As the world confronts climate change and its disastrous effects, many institutions now look to Indigenous knowledge and practices to mitigate and adapt to these changes. Despite this, Native communities remain some of the most vulnerable to extreme weather events due to the lack of access to res...
Indigenous Breastfeeding, Birth Work, and First Foods
Indigenous Breastfeeding, Birth Work, and First Foods
Linked to the Native food sovereignty movement, the practice of breast/chest-feeding not only improves health outcomes for infants and children, but also impacts taste bud development based on the foods lactating parents consume. Removing barriers to access and uplifting traditional first foods f...
Native Language Immersion Initiative
Native Language Immersion Initiative
Language is a vital asset for Native people and communities. It defines who we are, where we come from, and the value systems that in many ways cannot be translated into English. Language is a core part of who we are as Indian people. Each of us has our respective languages that connect us to our...
Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship
Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship
Featured artwork by 2020 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellow Hanna Sholl (Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak, Alaska) ...
Reclaiming Native Truth
Reclaiming Native Truth
GATHER Film
GATHER Film
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