Reciprocity
We believe in mutual exchange, shared learning, and giving back across communities.
About Indigenous Bridges
A nonprofit, non-partisan international organization for the advancement of Indigenous communities.
We build a better future for Indigenous Peoples through international solidarity, cooperation, and partnership between local and diaspora Indigenous communities.
Mission
Indigenous nations meeting one another as equals.
As ancient peoples, we hold complicated and sometimes fraught histories with each other. Indigenous Bridges is committed to facilitating Truth and Reconciliation in service of a sovereign Indigenous future — together.
We build relationships across Native American, First Nations, Jewish, SWANA, and other Indigenous communities, creating spaces for learning, collaboration, and mutual support.
What guides the work.
Indigenous-led
We center Indigenous voices, leadership, and self-determination in all that we do.
Relationship before extraction
We build long-term relationships rooted in trust, care, and solidarity — not extraction or saviorism.
What we do
Five program areas, one shared work.
Political & Social Solidarity
Mutual assistance, strategic support, and collective organizing between Indigenous communities.
Economic Exchange
Direct connections between Indigenous entrepreneurs, innovators, creators, and artists.
Cultural Exchange
Face-to-face meetings — visits, gatherings, and conversations — between Indigenous nations.
Educational Programs
Resources, lectures, and programs created with and for schools, institutes, and communities.
Agricultural & Water Sovereignty
Networks for trading traditional agricultural knowledge and new technological practice.
What this means
An ancient relationship to a specific land.
An Indigenous nation has an ethnogenesis within a specific land-space, with historical ties to that land that predate colonial contact, and a unique culture, language, spiritual framework, and traditions they intend to pass down to future generations.
We use the Martinez Cobo definition as a starting point. From there, the work of recognition and relationship continues between communities themselves.
“Our relationships to land, to each other, and to future generations are at the heart of everything we do.”Indigenous Bridges
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