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Restoring a sacred space for healing, ceremony, & culture

Indigenous Rise - Empowering Communities

Why a Sweathouse
Our vision is for Indigenous people to live in abundance. Abundance requires more than surviving it requires spaces where healing, responsibility, and cultural continuity can live and be practiced.

The Sweathouse is a sacred, land-based space that supports community wellbeing, restoration, and connection across generations. This project is rooted in respect, cultural values, and relationship to place.

Support the Sweathouse Project

Become a part of our community and help us create lasting change. Your support helps us in achieving our vision of healthy, thriving Indigenous communities

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Creating Belonging and Wellbeing

What This Space Makes Possible

What We Need to Build and Sustain the Site

Community-Led and Culturally Guided

  • Healing and wellness grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing
     
  • Cultural continuity and intergenerational connection
     
  • Community trust and accountability
     
  • Land-based relationship and responsibility
     
  • A protected space for ceremony and reflection


Community-Led and Culturally Guided

What We Need to Build and Sustain the Site

Community-Led and Culturally Guided

The Sweathouse Project is being developed through Indigenous leadership and community accountability. We approach this work with care, humility, and responsibility to cultural protocols.


Specific teachings and ceremonial practices are held within community and are not publicly documented..

What We Need to Build and Sustain the Site

What We Need to Build and Sustain the Site

Working Upstream Through Place-Based Healing

We are currently seeking resources to support the development and long-term care of the Sweathouse site. This includes project planning, site preparation, materials, and ongoing stewardship.

Support may include:

  • Site development and preparation resources
     
  • Building materials and supplies
     
  • Skilled labor and land stewardship support
     
  • Community gatherings and engagement
     
  • Cultural programming support connected to place

Working Upstream Through Place-Based Healing

Working Upstream Through Place-Based Healing

Working Upstream Through Place-Based Healing

Assimilation and boarding school systems disrupted Indigenous relationships to land, culture, and collective healing. Restoring sacred spaces is part of rebuilding village norms, cultural values, and community trust.

This project strengthens the conditions for belonging, wellbeing, and abundance through relationship with each other and place.

Help Restore a Healing Space

Working Upstream Through Place-Based Healing

Help Restore a Healing Space

We invite supporters and aligned partners to help build and sustain this sacred space with respect and care. Your support strengthens Indigenous-led healing and cultural continuity for generations to come.

Spread the Word

Working Upstream Through Place-Based Healing

Help Restore a Healing Space

Help us raise awareness of our mission and programs by sharing our website, social media pages, and events with your friends, family, and colleagues.


Indigenous Rise

Indigenous Rise is an Indigenous led nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization (tax identification number 33-3717959) under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

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