        Illustration by Holly Sherwin Did you know that plants speak to us? Most of us have lost our ability to hear them. Fortunately, there are Indigenous peoples around the world, many of whom are shamans, who have not lost this ability. Shamans work with the energies and intelligence in Nature that we cannot … Read More
It Is Almost Giving Tuesday!
        Support Our Work! This month we are reminded to be thankful for the bounty of love and abundance in our lives. GivingTuesday is an opportunity to support the work of the Tribal Trust Foundation so we can continue to bring smiles to the Indigenous youth of the Shipibo-Konibo in the Peruvian Amazon. … Read More
Indigenous People’s Day Interview with Barbara Savage
Enjoy this interviewed on 91.9 FM/kcsb.org by Joyce Chi about TTF roll in establishing Indigenous People’s Day in Santa Barbara, Ca. Listen and learn the history of how and why this celebration came to be in 2018.
Support the San Bushmen!
        Photo of Baskets by Omba Arts Trust The Tribal Trust Foundation (TTF) serves as a fiscal agent to several nonprofit organizations whose projects further our mission. Traditional Lakota Elder Chief Black Spotted Horse, Founder of Bringing the Sacred Back to the Black Hills, Paha Sapa, Inc., has been a fiscal partner for many years. … Read More
Honoring Indigenous People’s Day
HONORING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY! For those of you who follow us on social media (@tribaltrust), you may have seen some heartwarming images of Shipibo-Konibo youth in the Peruvian Amazon, where they were participating in a workshop to learn how to use traditional fishing tools, which are on the brink of extinction. The project was developed by our fiscal partner Bari Wesna to promote ancestral practices while strengthening the … Read More
The next generation Shipibo storytellers
Learn more about how Tribal Trust Foundation supports the Shipibo Youth and how you can help us help them.
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
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
Santa Barbara Considers Switch to Indigenous Peoples Day
The resolution would be largely ceremonial, as the city itself does not celebrate the federal holiday, said Tribal Trust President Robert Ornstein, but it could help move California closer to passing statewide legislation.
LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Welcome to Autumn! We end September having celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
Indigenous Peoples Day
The relationship of indigenous and non-indigenous in our country is in deep need of healing right now. We need to act with integrity and sincerity if there is ever going to be any chance of that happening.