HAPPY NEW YEAR! Our wish for 2022 is to continue to work together with YOU–our kindred spirit donors, partners, and Indigenous friends in fulfilling the mission of the Tribal Trust to share Native wisdom through education and philanthropy in support of Mother Earth and global healing. We look forward to deepening our relationships as we offer our talents, time, resources, and expertise to help restore our planet by listening to Indigenous peoples who remember our original way of being in the world–living in harmony with nature and each other.
As we move into the new year, we are excited to announce that the Trust will be increasing our impact and outreach both locally and globally through incredible new partnerships. Please take a moment to learn more about our amazing partners and projects taking place around the world: may we always remember that we are stronger together.
BRINGING THE SACRED BACK
LAND ACQUISITION FOR A CULTURAL PRESERVE
Black Hills, South Dakota, USA
“The ultimate goal of our project is to unite mankind through the process of unification of all Indigenous ceremonies and to bring about the traditional teachings of the natural laws of the universe. Through this process, we hope to bring change, love, understanding, and respect between all nations in the sacred Black Hills.” The strategy of the organization is to acquire land for ceremonial and traditional use, education of cultural life-ways with adults and youth for preserving cultural teachings, knowledge, and preservation from development. Learn more by visiting their website, and enjoy a clip from Founder Izzy Zephier here.
GUARDIAN SAGA
Rewilding Native American Youth Program
Canada & USA
“When we rewild our youth back to the Earth, with our understanding of ancestral domain, true healing and peacemaking can take place and improve the ecosystem of us being a part of Mother Earth.” Guardian Saga is the nonprofit division of Guardian Art that seeks to rewild the Guardian Spirit amongst the youth of earth in response to Native American Elders wanting to nurture youth and the next seven generations of Earth. Their dream is to be able to give the next generation of leadership a foundation, medicines, and knowledge to bring our world into a new healthy earth age. An important part of the Guardian Art teachings and medicines is land-based teaching. Learn more by clicking here.
ANCESTORS FILM, LLC
Cross-Cultural Education Advocac
Namibia
Ancestors Film documented the San healing trance dance event in Namibia. During the interviews, it was confirmed from the youth who are living as hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari Dessert, that their dream is to have a school on their ancestral land. Recognizing the Nhoma San community was established to protect their ancestral land as a cultural preserve where San from all over Southern Africa are invited to learn from the wisdom keepers before it’s too late. Ancestors Film will edit footage to create a short film for raising money and awareness for this educational initiative. Enjoy an introduction to the film by clicking here.
EMPOWER CONGO WOMEN & STRONG ROOTS CONGO
Oral History Project
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Pygmy have lived in the Congo River basin for over 70,000 years. In the 1970s, the Congolese government removed them from the rainforest and turned their forest homes into national parks. Exiled from their habitat, these once proud Indigenous people are now some of the poorest on the planet–subject to extreme racism and threatened with extinction. The POHP involves the Buyungule people who live outside the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in eastern DRC and still have access to the knowledge their predecessors possessed. They are the direct descendants of the two Pygmy who habituated the first gorillas and enabled gorilla trekking. Strong Roots Congo is a Congolese charity that has worked closely with this community for years and are helping them rebuild their cultural heritage. This project plans to interview and transcribe their oral traditions, social and political customs, cosmology, and invaluable knowledge of the flora and fauna of the rainforest. For more information about the Pygmy crisis in the Congo please click here.
ANAVO FARMS & ANCESTORS FILM LLC
Environmental Impact Opportunity
Peru
The Tribal Trust Foundation and Anavo Farm are joining forces to protect biodiversity, wild places, and ecosystems. Our strategy is to educate the public about meat consumption–and how choosing their protein source more wisely not only helps their health, but also helps protect foreign lands inhabited by our world’s most ancient cultures. Because industrial agriculture needs to continuously clear-cut land to graze cattle to yield high profits, and these lands are often found outside of the US, they frequently and illegally encroach upon the ancestral lands of Indigenous people. More information on Anavo Farm can be found here.
As always, we are grateful for your engagement in the work we are doing around the globe to safeguard Indigenous wisdom. Never forget that no matter where you are on the planet, you can contribute to healing the planet and fellow man by standing in solidarity with Native people in their fight to reclaim ancestral land and sustain their unique languages, cultures and healing traditions. There are multiple worthy causes to become involved in around world and in your very own community. For more information on the work the Tribal Trust is doing, please be sure to visit our website.
Sending my very best wishes for dreaming, creating, and working together in this new year,
Barbara Savage
Founder & Executive Director
Tribal Trust Foundation
The Tribal Trust Foundation is located in the unceded homelands of the Chumash People and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. By recognizing these communities, we attempt to honor their legacies, their lives, and descendants. To learn more about the Indigenous People’s land on which your home or work sits, visit: native-land.ca
