Hearthkeepers is an Indigenous Rise initiative rooted in the understanding that families were never meant to raise children, carry healing, or sustain community alone.

For generations, Indigenous village systems supported parenting, birth, emotional regulation, caregiving, accountability, and cultural continuity through collective responsibility and relationship to place. Colonization disrupted those systems, leaving many Indigenous families to carry parenting, leadership, and healing without the relational infrastructure that once sustained community life.

Hearthkeepers exists to help rebuild that infrastructure.

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 centers the belief that:

• children regulate inside relationships, 
• relationships stabilize inside community, 
• and communities depend on anchored adults. 
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At its core, Hearthkeepers is about restoring the conditions for belonging, continuity, and Indigenous abundance through relationship, responsibility, and collective care.

Many Hearthkeepers initiatives are currently in early development and fundraising phases.

We are intentionally building these systems with care, community accountability, and long-term sustainability in mind — rather than rushing programming without the relational and cultural foundations needed to sustain it well.

Current development areas include:

• Nuy-lhti~ Dvn 
• Indigenous parenting and regulation infrastructure
• Basket economy initiatives 
• Land stewardship and cultivation systems 
• Women’s relational leadership development 

Support for this work helps build the long-term infrastructure needed for Indigenous families and future generations to thrive.

Warrior Society is an Indigenous Rise initiative focused on restoring the leadership, discipline, accountability, and ceremonial responsibility once carried through Indigenous village systems.

For generations, Indigenous societies developed strong men through relationship, cultural teachings, discipline, stewardship, and collective responsibility. Colonization and assimilation disrupted those pathways, leaving many Indigenous men disconnected from identity, mentorship, purpose, and healthy models of leadership.

Warrior Society exists to help rebuild those pathways.

Through regulation-centered leadership development, cultural teachings, mentorship, land-based practices, and community accountability, Warrior Society supports Indigenous men in becoming steady protectors, fathers, partners, mentors, and leaders capable of carrying responsibility without perpetuating harm.

Our work is grounded in the understanding that:

• strength without regulation creates instability, 
• leadership without accountability creates harm, 
• and communities depend on disciplined, relationally grounded men. 

Warrior Society is not built around dominance or performance. It is rooted in humility, service, protection, integrity, and responsibility to the collective.

At its core, Warrior Society is about restoring the conditions for Indigenous men to lead with steadiness, cultural grounding, and relational accountability, so future generations inherit safety, belonging, and continuity rather than cycles of disconnection.

• Regulation & Accountability 
• Leadership Development 
• Fatherhood & Family Responsibility 
• Land Stewardship & Cultural Practice 
• Ceremonial & Community Infrastructure

The Sweathouse Initiative is a body of work within Warriors Society focused on restoring land-based ceremonial spaces that support regulation, discipline, reflection, accountability, and community wellbeing.

For generations, ceremonial structures helped sustain balance, leadership, and relational responsibility within Indigenous communities. This initiative supports the restoration of those systems through culturally grounded stewardship, site development, and long-term community care.

The Sweathouse is not approached as a standalone structure, but as part of rebuilding the ceremonial and relational infrastructure necessary for future generations to thrive.

• Site stewardship and preparation 
• Land-based leadership practices 
• Ceremonial infrastructure restoration 
• Community accountability and regulation spaces 
• Long-term cultural continuity planning 

Many Warrior Society initiatives are currently being developed through community guidance, relationship-building, and fundraising support.

We are intentionally building long-term Indigenous leadership and ceremonial infrastructure rooted in relationship, discipline, accountability, and cultural continuity,  not short-term programming.

Support helps strengthen the systems that allow Indigenous men, families, and future generations to thrive.