With strong Indigenous representation at Mountainfilm Festival last week, and stories from every corner of the Earth, it is so clear that building bridges between ancient wisdom ways and the power of contemporary knowledge brings us closer to the future we are all hoping for. Last week, Tribal Trust Foundation Founder and Executive Director Barbara Savage was able to attend … Read More
Internship Opportunities
Tribal Trust Foundation Internship Opportunities The Tribal Trust Foundation welcomes high school and college students to learn about Indigenous wisdom traditions and work with us to support a thriving future through Indigenous-led storytelling, partnerships, and collaboration. Join TTF in Our Mission The Tribal Trust Foundation carries on a 30-year history of supporting Indigenous-led projects and programs that preserve and uplift … Read More
Continuing Global Impact
Photo courstesy of Bari Wesna As we close out 2025, I’m reaching out with gratitude — and a simple request. We asked for your support recently, to raise $110,000 and inspired donors have already given $95,000! Today, a $20,000 matching grant means that if you MAKE A DONATION TODAY, the value of your donation will be doubled! CONTINUING GLOBAL IMPACT … Read More
Gratitude for Nearly 30 Years of Work Together
On behalf of myself and the Tribal Trust Foundation Board of Directors, we want to express our heartfelt appreciation for you, our collaborators, donors, partners, and friends. Thank you for caring about Indigenous-led programming to preserve and uplift ancient wisdom ways to meet the challenges of our time. Thank you for believing in a worldview anchored in reciprocity, collaboration, and … Read More
Traveling to Bhutan for Documentary Film and Friendship
In 2006, the Tribal Trust Foundation answered a call from the Monpa people of Bhutan to document their ancient culture, one of the last Indigenous communities in the Himalayas still living in close harmony with the natural world. Upon their request, while the government had begun plans for a genocide of these peace-loving people, we began filming in order to … Read More
Monpa Elders Prioritizing Indigenous Language Preservation
UNESCO International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032 recognizes, “Languages are one of the most significant emblems of human diversity, revealing how we can perceive, relate to, and understand the world differently. Languages are vehicles of our cultures, collective memory, and values. They are an essential component of our identities.” The Monpas are translating their oral language into Dzongkha and English … Read More
Honoring the Mother
In this month of May, where in America we celebrate Mother’s Day, honoring the nurturing presence of mothers in our lives, I want to give thanks for Mother Nature and Mother Earth, and the web of life of which we are a part. At Tribal Trust Foundation, we believe that the wisdom of Indigenous peoples, the regenerative principles of Nature, … Read More
Responsiveness in Support for Hadza People
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 Bushmen Youth
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
Support Sacred Activism
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
A Blessing from Chumash Elder, Art Cisneros
Chumash Elder and Fire Keeper Art Cisneros, shares his wisdom and blessings in this throwback video. We are grateful to Art for his many years of Board service and continued mentorship and partnership with the Tribal Trust Foundation.
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