pure food. clean water.
sustainable living. clean energy.
Sovereignty through self-determination and community, through a traditional Indigenous way of living.
As Indigenous people, our way is to honor our traditions, culture, and ceremonies as a way of life. The Traditional Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Healing (TCIKH) is a refuge for people to find safety, and a space for their healing.
Our focus is in helping all those who come; making it a space safe for women and children that is our first priority. It is a humble refuge, surrounded by dozens of acres of wooded land, which is surrounded by state forest land.
Our aim is to help our people heal through the sharing of knowledge and healing modalities, and the practice of sovereignty through traditional community roles and values, which is a matrilineal way of life.
The House of Wisdom: an intentional space where people gather in community, to share knowledge, in talking circles, and to invite other nations and individuals to teach, and to practice traditional crafts. It is also a safe space from which we can welcome and work with people who are seeking birth support, or support with other traditional healing.
CANEY
The Community Garden: our food sovereignty and the well-being of the community is directly related to our capacity to grow traditional foods, plant medicines, seed saving, and foraging. With the help of the Plant Nation, we are establishing a small farm that produces enough food, medicine and seed to sustain our community and to share with others. Through education and the practice of traditional ecological and agricultural knowledge our goal is to attain food sovereignty.
CONUCO
Cultural Revitalization
The essence of indigeneity lies within our culture as a whole, inextricably linked to the Earth. Each year we immerse ourselves in oral knowledge, to grow what we know as the Traditional Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Healing, and to grow ourselves as Indigenous people, as individuals, and as members of our community.
Indigenous Sovereignty is Land Back
The work we do as an organization is all in effort to assist in rebuilding our communities, our nations. Having Land Back is a direct action against Colonialism.
IN THE BEGINNING OF TIME we were free. We understood the original instructions given to our people. In our return to nature we will once again be free because we will have deeply understood the sacrifice of those who came before us. It is their prayer we are answering. Where we come from is where we belong. This is our source of spiritual power. As we heal from our trauma, we return to that place within our self which remembers. We return to nature.
DAKA. “I Am.”
