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As we enter our fourth year, the North American Indigenous Center of New York (NAIC-NY) feels empowered and ready to continue cultivating the seeds we’ve planted in 2021-2024.  As our roots spread, we ground our activities in performing and visual arts, culture, traditions, advocacy, and social justice. This year’s work weaves culture, tradition, intergenerational relationships, multinational Indigenous inclusion, economic empowerment, and fashion. Our events have created space for Native entrepreneurship and fruitful partnerships with multiple organizations, individuals, and institutions. 

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Here’s a sneak peek at some of our programmatic impact this past year:

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Organizing for Equity: 

The Indigenous Landback & Black Land Justice Conference with Restore Forward and Black Women’s Blueprint.

Birth Equity Convergences: Hosted the Haudenosaunee Birth Equity Convergence and the Indigenous Birth Equity Summit.

 

Cultural Work:

Festivals and Initiatives: Inaugural Northeastern Native Arts Festival, third Come to the Fire, and fourth Indigenous Peoples Day at Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Artist Support: Commissioned over 15 artists, providing travel support and onsite and online economic opportunities.

Indigenous Food Sovereignty Series: Held gatherings on traditional food and lifeway teachings.

Consulting: Museum exhibit curation at Brooklyn Children's Museum, PBS children's programming such as Molli of Denali and the Plateshow Podcast, Bronx River Alliance Summer programming. 

 

Cross-Border Challenges:

Peace Movement: Organized PMPJ movement platform and supports Indigenous communities through multi-city peace campaigns and annual summits with over 100 binational organizations.

Migration and Human Rights: Supports Native migrants and advocates for human rights.

Intersectional Equity: Empowers marginalized groups, including women, LGBTQ individuals, youth, and elders.

 Anti-Gun Trafficking: Collaborated to address gun trafficking and promote community safety while platforming testimony of survivors and families of those lost in community and political forums. 

PMPJ Binational Action: Organized days of action in solidarity with migrants, Indigenous, Black, and Afro-descendants.- Peace Advocacy: Held an Advocacy Summit in Washington D.C. to address gun violence and resource extraction.

 

Summits and Conferences:

 Peace Summit: Organized the Peace Summit 2023 and 2024 to promote human rights, democracy, and peace. Provides travel scholarships.

 Landback and Cultural Continuance Conference: Hosted the Indigenous Sovereignty and LandBack Summit and the Black and Indigenous Truth and Reconciliation Commission conference.

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Partnerships and Events:

Minnetonka Collaboration: We hosted a Fashion Week NYC Launch showcasing moccasins and Native Artist's collaborations, with an Indigenous Food Sovereignty presentation.

 Winter Art Show & Market: Showcased Native artists, facilitating sales and community connections. NYC Public Library Demo: programming featuring Contemporary Native American Arts for inner-city youth.

Corporate Partnership: Discussing Landback and Native Culture.- Film Premieres Screened “Spaces of Exception” and PBS’s NATIVE AMERICA.- Educational Initiatives: Participated in the Education Through Music series, offering cultural context for teachers in the NYC DOE.- UK & NYC Museum Partnership: Engaged in rematriation efforts and hosting a partner exhibit while also advocating for rematriation of ill-gotten collections in essence of NAGPRA. - Public Conversations: Held “Sovereign Futures” discussions on land use and community needs in NYC.

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Various Workshops and Exhibits:

Indigenous Peoples Day Festival & Showcase: Dedicated to children and their families in NYC; Features storytelling, culinary arts, performing artists, and traditional crafts.- Theater Productions: Staged readings and cast an all-Native production.

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Here, you can support our ongoing programming and seed a thriving Indigenous Future!

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1. Give | Check out NAIC-NY- GoFundMe and naicny.org to Donate, or email us at connect@naicny.org for collaborations, partnerships, and other ways to contribute and get involved. 

2. Spread the Word | Encourage your relatives, friends, and community to join you in the movement to give today by sharing what NAIC-NY means to you and why you support NAIC-NY. Make sure to use the hashtags #GivingTuesday and tag us so we can share!