NDN Collective Stories

"Today on Palestinian Land Day (يوم الأرض), we uplift the sacrifices that our people have made and continue to make so that we can fight for a liberated future and a dignified present. As Palestinians living in exile on Turtle Island, we have learned so much from our siblings in struggle and are grateful for their inspiring courage in the face of so much adversity."

Today on Palestinian Land Day, we uplift the ongoing struggle of our Palestinian relatives for liberation of their homeland and full return for all Palestinian people. We reaffirm that our solidarity as people runs deep and is both historical and ongoing.

Citing the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, five Tribal leaders of the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires of the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Nations) led a march on Saturday in Rapid City, delivering a notice of trespass and posting it on the door of the Grand Gateway Hotel.

NDN Collective files federal civil rights class action lawsuit after being refused rooms on two different occasions after Grand Gateway Hotel owner publicly states her intent to ban all Native Americans following a shooting over the weekend.

NDN Collective will be filing a federal civil rights class action lawsuit against the Grand Gateway Hotel for its racist and discriminatory treatment of Native people, a response to the charged statement made by the Rapid City business on social media.

After a year of research and collaboration, NDN Collective’s Climate Justice Campaign has released the much anticipated, first of its kind report, “Faulty Infrastructure and the Impacts of the Dakota Access Pipeline”.

For Immediate Release: March 9, 2022 Rapid City, Dakota del Sur — El Colectivo NDN, organización dirigida por Indígenas que se dedica a fortalecer el poder Indígena, anuncia su próximo período abierto para la solicitud de la Beca de Imaginación Radical ofrecida a artistas, portadores de cultura y narradores que sean Indígenas de los EE.… Continued

NDN Collective announces the 2022 Radical Imagination LOI Open Application Phase. This grant is offered to Indigenous artists, culture bearers and storytellers from Turtle Island and surrounding Island Nations (U.S., Canada, Mexico, Islands of Hawai’i, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands)

NDN Collective firmly stands as a proponent of anti-militarism and anti-imperialism, drawing on the direct impacts that war has on surrounding communities, ecosystems and the world at large. This invasion is a continuum of the military industrial complex that continues to serve as a pathway for exploitation and destruction.

Teresa "Terri" Peterson (Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota) will be leading NDN Collective's planning and implementation of the $50 million Community Trust grant announced in December from the Bush Foundation.