Honoring Our Elders: A New Home for Shipibo-Konibo Teachers

Barbara SavageCollaborations, Education, Newsletter, South AmericaLeave a Comment

One of the many critical values we can learn from Indigenous peoples is the deep respect for, and care of, our Elders our wisdom keepers. They are the carriers of story, the transmitters of tradition, and the guardians of ancestral knowledge. In early 2025, we received a powerful request from our trusted partner, Bari Wesna, an Indigenous-led intercultural nonprofit based … Read More

Board Member Spotlight: Téana David of Illuminate Film Festival

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The Tribal Trust Foundation’s accomplishments would not be possible without the dedicated support of our Board of Directors. It is an honor to share news from our Board. TTF Vice President Téana David is the Artistic Director of the ILLUMINATE Film Festival, which just celebrated another successful year in Santa Barbara, California. The Festival’s mission is to elevate human consciousness … Read More

Continuing to Support Indigenous Education Amid Funding Cuts

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Today, more than ever, we are called to stand in solidarity with Indigenous peoples who are being disproportionately harmed by continued extractive policies and practices of our dominant culture and now, the recent devastating cuts in U.S. government funding. “We have already witnessed unbelievable rollbacks on our civil liberties, human rights, and environmental and climate justice laws and policies that we … Read More

Passing on Ancestral Knowledge with Bari Wesna

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We are proud to partner with, and be part of, passing on ancestral knowledge with Bari Wesna in Péru. Support their recent Traditional Singing & Medicinal Plants workshops was an honor. Held in the children’s library ‘’Jainoax Axeti Xobo’’ in the Intercultural community Bena Jema, and led by the wise Betty Muñoz, ancestral knowledge was shared with 25 boys and … Read More

The Power of Connection, Water, and Earth

Marilyn O'MalleyCentral America, Collaborations, Events, Newsletter, North AmericaLeave a Comment

In February, the Tribal Trust Foundation responded to the request of Maya Shaw Gale, a life-long advocate of indigenous wisdom, past TTF Board Member, and current TTF Advisor, to sponsor Adrian Salas Xopan, a Mayan ceremonialist and healer, to participate in the Indigenous Earth Day Tikal Conference in Guatemala. The intention of the Tikal convergence of spiritual leaders and wisdom … Read More

Responsiveness in Support for Hadza People

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In times of great change, it is wise to go back to what we know has worked throughout millennia: the ways of Indigenous people, who have built cultures and traditions anchored in ancient wisdom that is perhaps more relevant today than ever before. Indigenous communities are also most vulnerable to the life-threatening effects of climate change and the extractive practices … Read More

Supporting San Youth

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  In 2021, the San Bushmen living in Nhoma, a remote village in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia, asked the Tribal Trust to provide a school in their village that ensures an indigenous transfer of knowledge that coincides with teaching western knowledge; not through integration or assimilation of one within another but have these knowledge systems stand side by side … Read More

Love Is a Verb 🌀

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“Teach us love, compassion, and honor that we may heal the Earth and heal each other.” This quote is often attributed to the Native American Indigenous Ojibwa people and it feels fitting to share it in this month of February. It is also a time in history in which our one planet Earth, and all who live here, are hurting and … Read More

Support Sacred Activism

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Hadza Hunter by Roberta Marroquín DONATE TODAY The Tribal Trust Foundation (TTF) serves as an ally organization and a messenger between worlds. TTF has well-established, authentic relationships with Indigenous communities coupled with a deep desire to help bring sacred Native wisdom back to the modern world. TTF plays an important role as a messenger in this landscape. Last year the … Read More