NDN Collective is launching the “Feed The People” campaign in response to the SNAP benefits crisis. The U.S. Government shutdown is disrupting SNAP, deepening food insecurity in many Native and rural communities.

LANDBACK wool blankets are available now. The LANDBACK blanket was created in collaboration with Eighth Generation and includes geometric designs inspired by Lakota beadwork, quillwork and Navajo rugs.

Registration is now open to apply for the Collective Abundance Fund! Since 2023, this award has supported more than 396 individuals & families with awards of $25k or $50k. Relatives in year 1 & 2 have utilized this award to purchase a home, obtain a degree, start a business, home repairs, & more!

NDN Collective will be featured in the Nonprofit Quarterly highlighting Landback For the People. 📚Read the first column here: ndnco.cc/npqcolumn

As we begin Native American Heritage Month, we look back on the celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. 📚 Check out our blog: ndnco.cc/ipdblog

Billie Berry (Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation) is a Collective Abundance Awardee from our first year who used her award to pay for law school. She is now looking forward to giving back to the community with her new skills.

With COP30 coming up in a few weeks, we’d like to take a moment to reflect on our team’s takeaways from NYC Climate Week 2025.  Read our blog to read our ‘5 Indigenous Takeaways From NYC Climate Week’: ndnco.cc/cw2025

Bruce Savage, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, is an inaugural Collective Abundance Fund awardee and the owner of Spirit Lake Native Farms on the Fond du Lac Reservation in Minnesota.

Big Wopila tanka (thank you in Lakota) to all our volunteers, staff, creatives, artists, vendors, donors, and the Mni Luzahan community for showing up and celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with us. 🎤 Our livestream is available on Youtube, LinkedIn, and Facebook: ndnco.cc/ipdlive

Braided Capital refers to NDN Collective’s unique approach of combining both grant and loan resources for specific projects. Since 2019, NDN Collective has deployed over $9 million in loan capital across 12 loans, with 8 of those leveraging braided capital.

The Collective Abundance Fund will begin accepting applications on Nov 5, 2025! Since 2023, this award has supported more than 396 individuals and families with awards of $25k or $50k to achieve their dreams and wealth-building goals.

Introducing 2024-26 NDN Changemaker Fellow: Shelly Boyd (Prasat) is a founding member of the Inchelium Language and Culture Association (ILCA) and the Inchelium Language House, a non-profit with the mission to revitalize the Sinixt language and culture within traditional Sinixt territory.

In my latest conversation for @thenation.com, I chat with Nick Tilsen of @ndncollective.bsky.social about Indigenous sovereignty, #LandBack, & the power of collective organizing. Nick's fight is deeply connected to the struggle for Palestinian freedom: rooted in resistance to occupation & erasure.

Happy Indigenous People’s Day! Celebrating our collective resiliency, resistance, and culture. 🔴 Livestream available on YouTube, Facebook, & LinkedIn.  💌 Help us continue this vital work, donate to the For The People Campaign: ndnco.cc/ftpcdonate #FreeThingsToDo #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Big thank you to all our art build volunteers for our Indigenous Peoples’ Day event.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day Billboards are up in Mni Luzahan (Rapid City, SD)! Tune in on October 13 from 12-9 pm (MT) for this years’ Community march and FREE concert hosted by NDN Collective, located at Main St Square. 🌐 For the concert lineup, visit our website: ndnco.cc/ipd2025

From Hawaii to New York, NDN Collective trained over 200 people in 15 different communities in organizing strategies in 2024. In Hawaii, we collaborated with our partners at HULI to coordinate a Training for Trainers session to deepen creative resistance skills and share knowledge.

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.