Yazmín Novelo is a Mayan sociolinguist, communications specialist, and singer-songwriter from Peto, Yucatán, Mexico. Yazmín has developed projects to help revitalize the Mayan language via music, written pieces, radio, and live performances both locally and in the United States.

2025 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Lineup is now available! On October 13, we will begin the day with a community march and end it with a FREE concert. 🎨 To support the community art build for the march text “ART4IPD” to 50302. 🔴 NDN LIVE: available on YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

“The place to get back to is this relationship with the land. Ownership might be a way, but it’s not the goal.” ~Eva Cardenas, Dir. of Organizing at NDN ℹ️ Read the @nextcity.org interview feat. @krystaltwobulls.bsky.social ED at @honortheearth.bsky.social: nextcity.org/urbanist-new... #Landback

Join us for Indigenous Peoples’ Day on October 13, 2025, to celebrate our resiliency, artistry, & culture in Downtown Rapid City. ✊🏽🪶🎉 ➕Concert lineup TBA: Special guest performance by Macklemore More details soaring in soon! 🦅 #IndigenousPeoplesDay #FreeThingsToDo #IndigenousArtists

7 years in and we are prepared for what's ahead! ✊🏽 “This report is our small part in the greater collective work being done now and into the future.” ~Gaby Strong, VP, NDN Collective ℹ️ 2024 impact report: ndnco.cc/ndnimpact 💌 Help us continue this vital work: ndnco.cc/ftpcdonate #Landback #FTP

New mural in the Black Hills. This mural was a collaboration between Mural On The Wall and NDN collective aimed at celebrating Indigenous femininity and Native kinship. In this mural you will find 3 Indigenous women standing together wearing dentalium, elk’s teeth, cowrie shells, and ribbons.

Relatives, we aren’t going anywhere. “We are here to stay and scrap this out.” 🔔Listen to the FULL episode NOW! ▶️YouTube: ndnco.cc/ytLBFTP303 ▶️Spotify: ndnco.cc/sptfyLBFTP303 ▶️Apple: ndnco.cc/applLBFTP303 ▶️Audible: ndnco.cc/audiLBFTP303

NDN Collective’s 2024 Impact Report is available now. To learn more, read the full Press Release: ndnco.cc/2024impactpr

In 2024, NDN Collective worked with partners across Turtle Island to decolonize food systems, defend sacred lands, and develop regenerative businesses. ➡️ Learn more about our collective impact in 2024: ndnco.cc/ndnimpact #Landback #ForMotherEarth #ForThePeople

#ProtectOakFlat ✊🏽 “The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary restraining order blocking the land exchange at Oak Flat, where Resolution Copper wants to extract ore from beneath 2,200 acres of forest and wetlands.” www.azcentral.com/story/news/l... 📸: AZ Central

“It’s not even the actual mineral content of the Black Hills that is so attractive to mining companies. It’s the permissive nature of the officials who oversee mining” said Taylor Gunhammer, local organizer, NDN Collective, Oglala Sioux 🗞️ Read more: apnews.com/article/gold... By: @apnews.com

URGENT: Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago, a beloved community member, DACA recipient and long-time community organizer, was detained by Border Patrol on Sunday August 3, 2025 at an airport in El Paso, TX. Sign this petition: www.freecata.com Repost by Momentum

New Blog: Reclaiming Data for Indigenous Dreaming & Self-Determination by Gillian Joseph “Indigenous people are the first scientists, researchers, and evaluators; we have been engaged in this work since time immemorial.” Read on: bit.ly/reclaimdata

PRESS RELEASE: After three days of evidentiary hearings the judge has taken the case under advisement, requested “finding of fact” from each party, and is expected to make a final decision in the coming months.

Relatives, we need your help to secure Nick Tilsen’s freedom and ensure the upcoming evidentiary hearing doesn’t go to trial. Nick Tilsen’s hearing continues on Friday, August 1st, 2025 at the Pennington County Courthouse.

#AlligatorAlcatraz: A violation of Tribal sovereignty & environmental stewardship The Trump administration and the state of #Florida are illegally building an immigrant detention facility in the Everglades, just 1,100 ft from a Miccosukee & Seminole village.

Join Wizipan Garriott and Robby Burroughs at the 51st Annual Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada Conference on July 16, 2025 for a panel discussion called, “Pine Creek Landback.” ⬇️

Today, we published a new report. “Google’s Eco-failures” goes deep into the appendices of Google’s environmental report to bring you the truth about their skyrocketing emissions and speculative investments. Read more here: noclimateresultsfound.com/report/

We need to stop the Big BAD Bill! This bill will cut trillions of dollars in essential safety net programs for working-class families and increase military funding. All while creating the largest wealth transfer in recent history, using taxpayers' dollars to benefit the ultra-rich!

Say no to gold mining in Spearfish Canyon! Solitario Resources—the same company behind the Golden Crest project—is back, this time with the Ponderosa gold drilling project, just south of Spearfish.

Another destructive mining project is threatening our sacred Hesápa. Solitario Resources—the same company behind the Golden Crest project—is back, this time with the Ponderosa gold drilling project, just south of Spearfish.

In an incredible and historic interview, Lakota historian, writer, and scholar Nick Estes sat down with Leonard Peltier for an in-depth conversation— about Leonard’s origins with the Red Power movement and ultimately AIM, about the sinister tactics of the FBI, and about Anna Mae Pictou Aquash.

149 years ago, allied groups of Lakota, Dakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and others came together in unity and resistance—defeating the 7th Regiment of the U.S. Cavalry, led by General George Armstrong Custer.

Urgent Aid needed for LA Families of 14 Detained by ICE Learn more or make a contribution here: bit.ly/LAFamilyRaidSupport

NDN Collective and NDN Fund are honored to congratulate Dune Lankard, the President and Founder of Native Conservancy, for receiving the 2025 James Beard Impact Award.

Day two of Nick Tilsen’s evidentiary hearing has officially come to a close. Dr. Valeriah Big Eagle, Director of Strategic Partnerships at NDN Collective, provides an update outside of the Pennington County Courthouse in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Today, June 13th, marks the second day of Nick Tilsen’s evidentiary hearing. Robert Bordeaux, NDN Collective, provides an update outside of the Pennington County Courthouse in South Dakota, where the hearing is being held.

“The politically motivated charges filed against Nick are an attempt to reverse progress made by and for the Native community.” ~Bryan Brewer, former president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe ndncollective.org/community-re...

Relatives across Turtle Island attend today’s (June 12) evidentiary hearing to support Nick Tilsen. We started our day together with a prayer circle and smudge. #DropTheCharges #SupportNickTilsen #Defend #Develop #Decolonize #Landback

Today, June 12th, marks the start of Nick Tilsen’s evidentiary hearing. Eva Cardenas, Director of Organizing for NDN Collective, provides an update outside of the Pennington County Courthouse in South Dakota, where the hearing will be held.

Relatives we need your help to secure Nick Tilsen's freedom and ensure the upcoming evidentiary hearing doesn't go to trial. For information and context, we provide a timeline of events leading up to Nick Tilsen’s evidentiary hearing.

Now that Leonard is home and integrating into his new life, NDN Collective continues to support Leonard in the best ways we can. Anyone can support Leonard through the official wishlist coordinated by NDN Collective, which Leonard has approved here ndnco.cc/lpndnsb

The short film "GIIWE: Bringing Leonard Peltier Home" is now available for streaming on NDN Collective’s YouTube channel! 📺✊🏽⚡️🪶🔥 🔔🚨 Watch now and Subscribe to our YouTube channel today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzA3...

Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective CEO and Founder, talks with the crew powering Sacred Storm Buffalo, announcing the opening of their new storefront in Mni Luzahan (Rapid City). 🔔Listen to The Full Episode NOW! ▶️Spotify: ndnco.cc/sptfyLBFTP302 ▶️Apple: ndnco.cc/applLBFTP302

The short film "GIIWE: Bringing Leonard Peltier Home" will be available for streaming on NDN Collective’s YouTube channel starting June 9th! 📺✊🏽⚡️🪶🔥 Stream here: www.youtube.com/@NDNCollective

🚨🚨 TAKE ACTION NOW! 🚨🚨 Funding those doing work on the ground ensures that Indigenous Peoples have the tools, support, and agency necessary to build a future rooted in self-determination and collective liberation. To learn how YOU can support, visit: ndnforthepeople.org #ForThePeopleCampaign #FTP

“We are excited to open our doors to the community & celebrate a movement that began with a prayer & a buffalo,” said Chris White Eagle, Founder & Executive Director of Sacred Storm Buffalo.

NOW more than ever, we need to come together, talk with people, & build community because authoritarianism wants to divide the community. They want to shatter movements, they want to shatter communities, that's how authoritarianism gets their foothold & their power. Read more: ndnco.cc/rtrqant

NDN Collective’s mission is to build the collective power of Indigenous People through resource rematriation, movement-building, grantmaking, lending & investing, and community organizing. To learn more, visit: ndnco.cc/ndnpblibrary

✊🏽🗣️🌿 Resistance in a time of Repression: An Up-Close-and-Personal Q+A with Nick Tilsen Read more: ndnco.cc/rtrqant

Our For The People Campaign is an opportunity to address philanthropy’s failures and constantly changing strategies that uphold the very structures of white supremacy that we are seeing dominate our society today. To learn more and to invest in Indigenous people, visit: ndnforthepeople.org

The For The People Campaign website has officially launched today! ✊🏽⚡️ Visit ndnforthepeople.org/ to learn more. It's time to move beyond charity and grow into solidarity. #ForThePeopleCampaign #FTP #DefendDevelopoDecolonize #NDNCollective

We need to come together & ensure the important work of protecting lands, waters, communities, & cultures continues on. Fear-mongering tactics won't suppress the movement. It’s time to lock in & move with grounded strategy, ancestral knowledge, & an empowered purpose. Read More: ndnco.cc/ffbftpc

THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone, from all over Turtle Island and beyond, for raising your voice to protect the Lakota sacred site Pe’ Sla. In just 37 days, we worked together to pull in *over 2,100 comments. 🎉

With the current freeze on federal funding, philanthropists & grassroots organizers have a unique opportunity to join forces & shift the paradigm. In today’s hostile political climate, funders & organizers must defy fear-mongering, reject conformity, & shift strategies, & they must do so together.

NDN Collective is honored to uplift the work of Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture, a 2024 NDN Community Self-Determination grantee. 🌱🌽⚡ Based in the Village of Kykotsmovi on the Hopi Reservation, Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture has been planting seeds for a powerful Hopi future since 2004.

“It’s absolutely, completely a U-turn,” said Taylor Gunhammer, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation & local organizer of NDN Collective. The directive conflicts with a memorandum of understanding signed here just last year between the Forest Service & 8 tribal nations of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate...

“Creative Resistance brings in & encompasses all the tactics that make an action effective. You have to think strategically together about the ways to tell a story…” said Cy Wagoner, Creative Resistance Director at NDN Collective. Watch full video in our blog: ndnco.cc/arccrb