About Us
WHY WE EXIST
Working Upstream Toward Abundance
Indigenous communities continue to experience the impacts of systems designed to break relationship to land, culture, family, and self. Assimilation and boarding school policies disrupted village norms that once supported belonging, regulation, and collective care.
Indigenous Rise works upstream to address these root causes by restoring Indigenous systems grounded in relationship, responsibility, and cultural values.
OUR APPROACH
Reestablishing Village Norms & Cultural Systems
We focus on rebuilding trust in community through reestablishing village roles, responsibilities, and customs. We believe wellbeing and abundance emerge when people know who they are, where they belong, and how they are responsible to one another and place.
Our approach is:
- Indigenous-led and community accountable
- Rooted in Indigenous philosophies and customs
- Relationship-based and non-extractive
- Protective of cultural knowledge
- Focused on long-term systems change
Leadership rooted in relationship
Koiya Tuttle
Briannon "Brie" Fraley
Briannon "Brie" Fraley
I’m Koiya — a Yurok photographer, cultural practitioner, community leader, and co-founder of Indigenous Rise. Through my work in photography, mentorship, environmental leadership, and Indigenous philanthropy, I’m committed to creating pathways for belonging, wellbeing, purpose, and cultural continuity for future generations.
As part of Ind
I’m Koiya — a Yurok photographer, cultural practitioner, community leader, and co-founder of Indigenous Rise. Through my work in photography, mentorship, environmental leadership, and Indigenous philanthropy, I’m committed to creating pathways for belonging, wellbeing, purpose, and cultural continuity for future generations.
As part of Indigenous Rise, I helped create the Warriors Society, a program that works with Native youth through traditional customs, mentorship, and service to community—centering values of helpfulness, kinship, accountability, and care for the land.
Through KDT Photography, I create place-based imagery that reflects the interconnectedness between people, community, and land, telling stories with depth beyond the image. KDT Photography also provides much of the visual storytelling and photography that supports the work and mission of Indigenous Rise.
Briannon "Brie" Fraley
Briannon "Brie" Fraley
Briannon "Brie" Fraley
I created Indigenous Rise from a belief that healing and systems change must happen together. Growing up in my culture taught me the importance of identity, belonging, and relationship—not only to community, but to land, purpose, and self.
Much of my work has been shaped by a commitment to break cycles of harm and help create conditions wh
I created Indigenous Rise from a belief that healing and systems change must happen together. Growing up in my culture taught me the importance of identity, belonging, and relationship—not only to community, but to land, purpose, and self.
Much of my work has been shaped by a commitment to break cycles of harm and help create conditions where Indigenous people and communities can thrive. I believe lasting change happens upstream, when we center connection, address root causes, and create spaces where people feel seen, valued, and connected to who they are.
Indigenous Rise is an extension of that vision—a place grounded in relationship, healing, and collective responsibility for future generations.