First Nations Development Institute

Tribal and federal employees and representatives are invited to register now for the “Shared Horizons: Navigating Tribal Co-Stewardship and Co-Management Opportunities Conference.” 🟠 Co-hosted by First Nations and Native American Rights Fund, the national co-learning event will provide trainings, space for sharing ideas and work, and networking opportunities to grow the field of tribal co-stewardship and co-management. 🟠 Travel scholarships are available for tribal representatives and employees. ➡️ Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/47WZxX6

Today, September 30, is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (Canada), and National Day of Remembrance (U.S.). First Nations recognizes the painful history of Indian boarding schools. We wear orange to honor the generations of children, families, and communities harmed by residential schools, and stand in solidarity with survivors and children who never returned home. Raising awareness of Indian boarding schools and their continued impacts is crucial to reconciliation and the healing process: https://bit.ly/3N9oDIs #EveryChildMatters #TruthandReconciliation #OrangeShirtDay

This month at the Indian Cultural Pueblo Center in Albuquerque, First Nations friends and supporters gathered to hear about Invisible No More: Voices from Native America, the collection of essays that articulates Native action, visions, and aspirations that challenge the romanticized and false views rooted in colonization. Participants enjoyed hearing from the panel discussion, co-moderated by First Nations’ Catherine Bryan (Navajo) and Jonna Paden, and featuring the book’s co-editor Raymond Foxworth, along with contributors Trisha Moquino and Vanessa Roanhorse. Participants said they appreciated the inclusive nature of the event and the insights into philanthropy. Learn more about Invisible No More: https://bit.ly/494qJmu

🟠 Join First Nations in wearing orange on Monday! 🟠 Monday, September 30, is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Originating in Canada and adopted in the U.S. as the National Day of Remembrance – the annual event is a time to remember and honor all those who attended Indian boarding schools and their families and communities. We encourage you to wear orange on Monday, and learn more about how to participate: https://bit.ly/3ZExKIE

The Oyate Native American and Indigenous Students Organization at the University of Colorado Boulder is bringing back the powwow to campus! Coming after years of advocacy for a CU Boulder powwow, the momentous all-day event will feature food and art vendors and dance competitions. Planners say the powwow will importantly link both Native and non-Native communities to enrich the overall CU community toward being more informed, expansive, inclusive, diverse, and accountable. The event will be Saturday, September 28, 2024, on Farrand Field. It is free and open to the public. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3XDLYHk

First Nations was in Texas this month presenting The Business of Indian Agriculture, a curriculum specifically designed for Native farmers and ranchers. The training was especially welcomed in Texas, where lack of federal tribal recognition and the inhibition of community-based economies often present challenges. First Nations staff and consultants shared strategies for building business capacity, identifying funding opportunities, writing applications, and developing business plans. Further, they helped participants merge the community aspect of giving and providing for the community with the instilled western ideas of what it means to be an “entrepreneur.” This training was the result of a collaboration with partners Texas Tribal Buffalo Project and Lucille Contreras. ➡️ Learn more about our The Business of Indian Agriculture curriculum: https://bit.ly/4eluIhe ➡️ For more information about hosting The Business of Indian Agriculture training in your community, email [email protected].

📣 Attention Native Youth! 📣 Apply now for the Brave Heart Fellowship! The Center for Native American Youth is calling for applicants to the Brave Heart Fellowship. The 2025 cohort will be based in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and 10 youth will be selected to participate. Native youth ages 18- to 24-years-old who self-identify as Native; live in Alaska, (Northern) California, Idaho, Oregon, or Washington; and are passionate about promoting equity in the fight for climate justice are encouraged to apply. ➡️ Learn more and apply by October 21, 2024: https://bit.ly/3Zz4wLc

Join us for the third installment of First Nation’s Tribal Co-Stewardship and Co-Management Webinar Series, “Sacred Site and Cultural Resource Protection.” Beth Wright (Laguna Pueblo), Native American Rights Fund Staff Attorney, and Lauren Van Schilfgaarde (Cochiti Pueblo), Assistant Professor of Law for UCLA School of Law, will share ways co-stewardship and co-management agreements are being utilized to access and protect sacred sites and cultural resources. They will provide an overview of how these agreements are structured and discuss ways tribes can leverage different authorities, treaty rights, and religious freedoms to develop meaningful agreements for protecting sacred sites and cultural resources. They will also share examples from tribes across the nation that have been successful in developing such agreements and illustrate how these examples can be used as frameworks to advance this work. The webinar will be Thursday, September 26, 2024, at 1 pm MT. Register: https://bit.ly/3B90kYy

Meet 2023 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellow Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez! 🟠 Kathy is a founding member of Tewa Women United, a multicultural organization that helps women from Tewa homelands “reclaim their power” and cope with grief and loss, domestic violence, suicide, and other issues. 🟠 A fourth-generation potter, Kathy learned the fine art of creating blackware pottery from her mother Anita Martinez, her great-aunts Mella Roybal and Clara Montoya, and her grandparents Adam and Santana Martinez, who also taught her how to speak Tewa, her first language, fluently. 🟠 She plans to share her “dreamspace” tools with the Indigenous community ― both in person and digitally through video and audio recordings ― to help people with their life journeys and to heal intergenerational childhood traumas. ➡️ Discover more about Kathy’s remarkable contributions and her mission for transformative change: https://bit.ly/3zpK9W6

First Nations President and CEO Mike Roberts joined the Freeman Foundation and Stewarding Native Lands program staff on a site visit to community partner Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. The visit provided an opportunity to connect with Executive Director Jason Baldes and learn how he is implementing a tribally led and community-based strategy to restore buffalo across the tribal homelands. This site visit highlighted the importance of supporting tribally led buffalo initiatives that will ensure traditional knowledge and community health are restored alongside the buffalo. Learn more about our American Buffalo Restoration on Tribal Lands in Montana and Wyoming project: https://bit.ly/3Xi50Tn