A Southwestern Colorado Nonprofit Is Teaching Indigenous Students to Build Needed Water Systems

A southwestern Colorado nonprofit is teaching Indigenous students to build needed water systems

Justice Ramos founded Fundamental Needs, a nonprofit with a training program that helps Indigenous high schoolers build off-grid water systems for Native tribe families

Momi’ Jokoj’: Running Waters — An Indigenous Campaign to Bring the Land Home

Just outside of the town of Lincoln, CA, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to return 3,200 acres on Raccoon Creek to its original caretaker, the Nisenan People, is unfolding. Indigenous Futures Society, an inter-Tribal Indigenous-led and -governed nonprofit dedicated to igniting Indigenous guardianship in the Sierra Nevada, has set out to acquire lands to become the future […] The post Momi’ Jokoj’: Running Waters — An Indigenous Campaign to Brin…

TRANSFORMATIONS: INDIGENOUS ART AND LAND AS KNOWLEDGE

Professor Tania Willard Director, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC Prof. Willard is a Secwépemc artist, curator, and writer whose work explores Indigenous land-based practices, community, and the intersections of art, culture, and environmental stewardship. Working across installation, printmaking, sculpture, and collaborative projects, she has exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. In 2025, she received the Sobey Art Award, Ca…