NDN Collective
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Dedicated to building the collective power of Indigenous Peoples while fostering a world built on justice + equity for all people and Mother Earth.
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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
🎤 Our livestream is available on Youtube, LinkedIn, and Facebook: ndnco.cc/ipdlive
NDN Collective has been honored to support Kumano I Ke Ala since 2019 through multiple grant programs, including our Community Self-Determination Grant. Their work strengthens land-based practices, nourishes the community, and uplifts the development and leadership of Indigenous peoples.
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
NDN Collective has been honored to support Kumano I Ke Ala since 2019 through multiple grant programs, including our Community Self-Determination Grant. Their work strengthens land-based practices, nourishes the community, and uplifts the development and leadership of Indigenous peoples.
NDN Collective has been honored to support Kumano I Ke Ala since 2019 through multiple grant programs, including our Community Self-Determination Grant. Their work strengthens land-based practices, nourishes the community, and uplifts the development and leadership of Indigenous peoples.
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
NDN Collective has been honored to support Kumano I Ke Ala since 2019 through multiple grant programs, including our Community Self-Determination Grant. Their work strengthens land-based practices, nourishes the community, and uplifts the development and leadership of Indigenous peoples.
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.
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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.
The LANDBACK blanket was created in collaboration with Eighth Generation and includes geometric designs inspired by Lakota beadwork, quillwork and Navajo rugs.
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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.
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!
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!
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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!
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
📚Read the first column here: ndnco.cc/npqcolumn
An Indigenous Nonprofit Responds to Budget Cuts with a New Strategic Vision - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
While funding cuts to nonprofits get widespread attention, similar cuts in Indigenous nonprofits have received less coverage, and have required strategic readjustment.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
NDN Collective will be featured in the Nonprofit Quarterly highlighting Landback For the People.
📚Read the first column here: ndnco.cc/npqcolumn
📚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
📚 Check out our blog: ndnco.cc/ipdblog
When Indigenous People Gather: Rising Up Against Authoritarianism During Indigenous Peoples’ Day Celebration - NDN COLLECTIVE
Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2025 served as a reminder for our people and the world that Indigenous communities have always and...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
As we begin Native American Heritage Month, we look back on the celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
📚 Check out our blog: ndnco.cc/ipdblog
📚 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.
October 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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
Read our blog to read our ‘5 Indigenous Takeaways From NYC Climate Week’: ndnco.cc/cw2025
5 Indigenous Takeaways From NYC Climate Week - NDN COLLECTIVE
NYC Climate Week 2025 served as a reminder that Mother Earth cannot wait for bureaucracy to protect her. As we...
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October 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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
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.
October 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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
🎤 Our livestream is available on Youtube, LinkedIn, and Facebook: ndnco.cc/ipdlive
October 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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
🎤 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.
October 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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.
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.
October 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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.
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.
October 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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.
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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.
Nick's fight is deeply connected to the struggle for Palestinian freedom: rooted in resistance to occupation & erasure.
It’s Never a Strategy to Remain Quiet, With Nick Tilsen
On A People's Climate: A call for big, bad, bold courage.
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October 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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.
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
🔴 Livestream available on YouTube, Facebook, & LinkedIn.
💌 Help us continue this vital work, donate to the For The People Campaign: ndnco.cc/ftpcdonate
#FreeThingsToDo #IndigenousPeoplesDay
October 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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
🔴 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.
October 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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
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
October 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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
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.
October 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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.
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.
September 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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.
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.
🎨 To support the community art build for the march text “ART4IPD” to 50302.
🔴 NDN LIVE: available on YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
September 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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.
🎨 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
ℹ️ Read the @nextcity.org interview feat. @krystaltwobulls.bsky.social ED at @honortheearth.bsky.social:
nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
#Landback
What Actually Counts as Land Back?
The Ethical Urbanist: There’s debate to be had about whether stewardship versus ownership count as giving land back to Indigenous people. But the question misses what the land rematriation movement is...
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September 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
“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
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
➕Concert lineup TBA: Special guest performance by Macklemore
More details soaring in soon! 🦅
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #FreeThingsToDo #IndigenousArtists
September 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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
➕Concert lineup TBA: Special guest performance by Macklemore
More details soaring in soon! 🦅
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #FreeThingsToDo #IndigenousArtists
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September 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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
“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
August 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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
“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