NDN Collective Stories

NDN Collective, the Oglala Sioux Tribe, and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe co-organize the first Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives+ 5k Walk Run in Rapid City, South Dakota.

NDN Collective's Climate Justice Campaign and the NDN Fund provide memo with guidance to the federal government on how to move resources directly to frontline communities and individuals throughout Indian Country, in response to recently proposed climate justice legislation like the Green New Deal for Cities Act of 2021 and the American Jobs Plan.

The NDN Collective Radical Imagination Grant will provide 10 Indigenous artists in the United States, U.S. Territories, Canada and Mexico with $50k to radically imagine a new future, better normal, and a more just world for all people and the planet.

NDN Collective calls upon the Biden Administration to pull U.S. support for the Israeli policies of apartheid and occupation that are strategically violent and ultimately uphold Israeli aspirations of complete colonization of Palestine.

"Incremental measures haven’t worked since the first Earth Day in 1970, and they won’t work now."

The 2021 NDN Changemakers are organizers, activists, social entrepreneurs and cultural practitioners who are challenging the status quo and building a better future for all people and Mother Earth.

“LaDonna Tamakawastewin Bravebull Allard was a catalyst for the movement at Standing Rock. Her leadership changed so many of our lives and shaped a foundation in which we now stand on.” ”

The school is expected to open in Fall 2022, serve 40 students in the first year, and will be the first Indigenous-led school designed specifically for students in the Rapid City community.

The time has come to permanently shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

Tina will manage the full arc of grantmaking within the Foundation, joining a growing team of changemakers and grantmakers.