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