NDN Collective Stories

A Call to Celebrate our 2SLGBTQ+ Relatives 365 Days Out of the Year

"We hold space for the pain in remembrance of all of the babies who were deprived of so much more than a proper burial-- they were deprived of love, of justice, of basic human dignity. "

NDN Collective joins the call for continued searches for mass and unmarked graves on all properties of former Indian residential schools across Canada and the United States.

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.

"CNN needs to uplift Indigenous voices, listen to our stories, and respond to our solutions and demands for change."

"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.