WHAT
WE DO
Whether hosting community discussions, offering Social Justice fellowships, building networks or telling important stories, we seek to restore our communities and our environment to full health and balance.
Indigenous People's Day. Photo by Krystal Curley.
PROGRAMS & PROJECTS.
Social Justice
Multi-Media Project
This program is designed to share knowledge about the impacts of uranium mining between our leaders, and indigenous led environmental organizations.
Trainings
Offered
In our commitment to support Indigenous Relatives across turtle island, we offer trainings on numerous topics that help us fulfill our mission. Grounded in traditional knowledge and wisdom, we proactively utilize modern tools and resources to help build individual and community capacity to restore health and balance for all people and our environment.
Literary Spheres
Each Sphere addresses social concepts from an indigenous cultural perspective which will work to build a family of networks that creates solutions.
Indigenous Lifeways continues to be a vital resource as we support and provide safe spaces for community members to gather and discuss issues such as environmental racism to sexual violence. We recognize that our pre-pandemic non-violent direct action frontline efforts were the foundation for our Covid-19 emergency response efforts.
By expressing ourselves through art and participating in traditional ceremonies communities, families find their voice and purpose.
As an indigenous women led organization we ensure our matriarchal indigenous beliefs are instilled in all programming we conduct.
Indigenous Womxn Working Group
Women convene to share traditional and matriarchal knowledge that will support women and families in reducing and preventing domestic violence and abuse.
Frontline Support
An inter-tribal outreach effort that provides support in prayer, ceremony, music, film, and direct-action organization for communities that are facing the consequences of colonialism.
Social Media Toolkits
These unique toolkits and other support from our experienced staff helps our community to develop effective campaigns to address the issues important to them.
We are an intertribal, interfaith, and interracial group of volunteers. As leaders of community-based nonprofits, we have a strong pre-existing network that allows us to quickly organize and establish a relatively immediate supply chain, production and dissemination.
Each nonprofit is contributing to grant writing/fundraising, supply chain, compilation of boxes and/or distribution of food, water, wood, PPE and other supplies.
Indigenous Lifeways is the lead coordinator for McKinley Mutual Aid efforts.
Photos of our amazing community partners and volunteers
WHERE WE WORK.
Although we are based in New Mexico, we serve all of turtle island by sharing our resources, conducting trainings, creating social justice toolkits and participating in frontline organizing events.
We have been able to reach communities across Turtle Island from Alaska to Hawaii. We have provided frontline/demonstration support and prayers with our indigenous brothers and sisters facing injustices caused by environmental racism.
