Hearthkeepers
Restoring relational infrastructure, cultural continuity, and village-centered care systems for Indigenous families and future generations.
Hearthkeepers is an Indigenous Rise initiative rooted in the understanding that families were never meant to carry parenting, healing, caregiving, or community responsibility alone.
For generations, Indigenous village systems supported birth, parenting, emotional regulation, caregiving, accountability, and cultural continuity through collective responsibility and relationship to place. Colonization disrupted those systems, leaving many Indigenous families to navigate parenting, leadership, and healing without the relational infrastructure that once sustained community life.
Hearthkeepers exists to help rebuild those systems.
Through culturally grounded parenting support, Indigenous doula care, relational leadership development, land-based teachings, basket economies, and community accountability practices, Hearthkeepers strengthens the systems of care that allow families and future generations to thrive.
Our work is grounded in the understanding that:
- children regulate inside relationships,
- relationships stabilize inside community,
- and communities depend on anchored adults.
At its core, Hearthkeepers is about restoring the conditions for belonging, continuity, relational accountability, and Indigenous abundance through collective care and village-centered systems.
Nuy-lhti~ Dvn
Featured Program
Birth, parenting, basketweaving, and land stewardship connected through reciprocal village care.
Nuy-lhti~ Dvn is a land-based Indigenous care initiative connecting birth support, early parenting, basketweaving, and land cultivation into one living system of relational care and cultural continuity.
Families are supported through pregnancy, birth, and early parenting while participating in culturally grounded teachings, community support, and reciprocal care systems rooted in Indigenous philosophies.
Families who complete the program receive a handwoven hazel baby basket created by local Indigenous basketweavers using cultivated hazel.
This initiative strengthens families while sustaining doulas, weavers, land stewardship, cultural knowledge transmission, and local Indigenous care economies together.
We are seeking financial support for this work.
Restoring systems of care, continuity & Belonging
Basket Economy & Land Stewardship
Women’s Leadership & Relational Infrastructure
Parenting & Regulation Infrastructure
Reconnecting cultural labor, land cultivation, and reciprocal economies.
Hearthkeepers is developing a place-based basket economy that supports Indigenous basketweavers, hazel cultivation, land stewardship, and cultural continuity through reciprocal systems of care.
This work supports:
- Paid opportunities for Indigenous basketweavers
- Hazel cu
Reconnecting cultural labor, land cultivation, and reciprocal economies.
Hearthkeepers is developing a place-based basket economy that supports Indigenous basketweavers, hazel cultivation, land stewardship, and cultural continuity through reciprocal systems of care.
This work supports:
- Paid opportunities for Indigenous basketweavers
- Hazel cultivation and stewardship
- Cultural knowledge transmission
- Land-based teachings and practices
- Sustainable Indigenous care economies
Parenting & Regulation Infrastructure
Women’s Leadership & Relational Infrastructure
Parenting & Regulation Infrastructure
Supporting cycle breakers through relational and nervous system-centered parenting approaches.
Hearthkeepers is developing parenting and caregiver support systems rooted in Indigenous philosophies, emotional regulation, relational accountability, and village-centered caregiving practices.
This work recognizes that many Indigenous parents to
Supporting cycle breakers through relational and nervous system-centered parenting approaches.
Hearthkeepers is developing parenting and caregiver support systems rooted in Indigenous philosophies, emotional regulation, relational accountability, and village-centered caregiving practices.
This work recognizes that many Indigenous parents today are healing while parenting, carrying responsibilities that were once held collectively within intact village systems.
Emerging development areas include:
- Regulation-centered parenting cohorts
- Parent support circles
- Nervous system awareness and co-regulation practices
- Community-based caregiving systems
- Intergenerational support structures
Women’s Leadership & Relational Infrastructure
Women’s Leadership & Relational Infrastructure
Women’s Leadership & Relational Infrastructure
Strengthening relational leadership, accountability, and continuity within community life.
Hearthkeepers is cultivating leadership pathways for Indigenous women, caregivers, aunties, doulas, and relational anchors carrying responsibility for family and community wellbeing.
This work focuses on:
- Relational accountability
- Community regulation
Strengthening relational leadership, accountability, and continuity within community life.
Hearthkeepers is cultivating leadership pathways for Indigenous women, caregivers, aunties, doulas, and relational anchors carrying responsibility for family and community wellbeing.
This work focuses on:
- Relational accountability
- Community regulation and coherence
- Caregiver leadership development
- Intergenerational continuity
- Village-centered systems of support and belonging
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Support helps sustain the development of:
- Indigenous doula care systems
- Parenting and caregiver cohorts
- Basketweaving economies
- Land stewardship and hazel cultivation
- Community accountability structures
- Long-term relational infrastructure for Indigenous families
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