Chumash Hutash Honoring Project and Winter Solstice Celebration Join the Chumash December 7th-21st, to participate in very special ceremonial traditions and celebrations. The first ceremony will involve making ‘prayer bundles.’ This entails forming handfuls of spiritually medicinal herbs into balls wrapped and tied in cloth. Herbs such as sage and mugwort in Chumash culture, and pirul (pepper-tree leaves,) pericón (Mexican … Read More
Hope For Native American Youth
The Tribal Trust Foundation would like to enlist your support for the Native American Youth. We live in a world eternally interconnected and interdependent. This fact has become increasing clear during these most difficult times. Global environmental, political and economic discrimination has impacted indigenous people, making them the most vulnerable to the coronavirus. TTF understands that indigenous people are the … Read More
A Message of Indigenous Wisdom
During these unprecedented times, all of us at the Tribal Trust Foundation are thinking of you, our loved ones and communities. Like you, we are also concerned about, and are adapting to, the changes brought upon our lives by the global pandemic. It is natural for many of us to feel anxious at this time – but remember that we … Read More
Supporting Shipibo Youth
image: David Diaz Gonzales SUPPORTING SHIPIBO YOUTH SAFEGUARDING AMAZONIAN INDIGENOUS CULTURE Please help us reach our goal of raising $2,500. Strengthen Cultural Identity & Save an Endangered Language! Please help us reach our goal to raise $2,500 for SHIPIBO YOUTH CULTURAL ELDER TEACHINGS to foster intergenerational knowledge of ancestral practices and traditions. These indigenous people have lived in the Amazon rainforest for … Read More
Full Moon Water Blessing Ceremony
On full moons, the Tribal Trust Foundation collaborates with local Indigenous leaders to gather together friends, virtually and locally around the world’s waters, in gratitude to give and receive our blessings of this sacred source. In doing so, our community deepens our love and honor for water as the source of all life. TTF works closely with the organization Loving … Read More
The First Monpa Day Festival
The First Monpa Day Festival Dec. 10, 2019 by Dawn Alexandra Murray, M.S., Ph.D. We arrived in a small van around 4:30 pm up the windy, forested dirt road the afternoon before the festival. A decorated and painted yellow arch with the seven lucky symbols was gracing the roadway, eleven young boys in ghos and plastic slip-on shoes still laying … Read More
Monthly Full Moon Water Blessing Ceremony
Monthly Full Moon Blessing Ceremony Each month on the full moon, the Tribal Trust Foundation and friends gather together virtually and locally around the world’s waters in gratitude to give and receive our blessings of this sacred source. In doing so, our community deepens our love and honor for water as the source of all life. TTF works closely with the … Read More
Medicine Wheel Living Park
Medicine Wheel Living Park The Medicine Wheel Living Park is a 65-acre park located on the South Dakota side of Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in the Bear Soldier community aka McLaughlin. The park was founded by Robert & Beth White Mountain in 2009 and is a grass roots, volunteer-run community organization focusing on Earth sustainability practices, food sovereignty and … Read More
Getting to Know the Monpa People of Bhutan
Within Bhutan, a small Kingdom in the Himalayas, hidden away in the deep forest and high mountains, live the Monpa, the indigenous people considered the country’s first inhabitants. The Monpa asked the Tribal Trust Foundation (TTF) to help them preserve their ancient culture, which is based on living in harmony with nature and each other. In 2014, we were the … Read More
Monpas People of Bhutan
The Monpa Within Bhutan, a small Kingdom in the Himalayas, hidden away in the deep forest and high mountains, live the Monpa, the indigenous people considered the country’s first inhabitants. The Monpa asked the Tribal Trust Foundation (TTF) to help them preserve their ancient culture, which is based on living in harmony with nature and each other. In 2014, we … Read More
The San Bushmen of the Kalahari
The Ju/’hoansi San of the Kalahari Through the power of traditional trance dancing, chief G/a’qo Kaeqce, understood the President of Namibia was intent on genocide of his people. TTF fulfilled the request of the Ju/’hoansi San chief of the San Bushmen to document the tribe’s cultural traditions to pass on to future generations. TTF’s film crew documented sacred songs, dances, and traditions to help facilitate a male … Read More
Partnering with Chief Ju/’hoansi San of the Kalahari Desert
Upon the request of the San people and several NGO, and on behalf of the Tribal Trust Foundation, Barbara Savage traveled to Botswana and Namibia. She interviewed game wardens, lawyers and activists to understand the immediate crisis. Through the power of traditional trance dancing, chief G/a’qo Kaeqce, understood the President of Namibia was intent on genocide of his people. A … Read More