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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. linktr.ee/NDNCOLLECTIVE

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · May 30

The For The People Campaign website has officially launched today! ✊🏽⚡️ Visit ndnforthepeople.org/ to learn more.

It's time to move beyond charity and grow into solidarity.

#ForThePeopleCampaign #FTP #DefendDevelopoDecolonize #NDNCollective

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 9h

🎨 To support the community art build on 10/11 text “ART4IPD” to 50302.

🔴 NDN LIVE: we will be live streaming the IPD march and concert on YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn. LINK COMING SOON!

#FreeThingsToDo #RapidCity #SouthDakota #IndigenousPeoplesDay #NDNLive

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 9h

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

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 7d

💌 Help us continue this vital work, donate to the For The People Campaign: ndnco.cc/ftpcdonate

Thank you for your continued support. Stay tuned for more updates!

#Landback #ForMotherEarth #ForThePeople

Donate to For The People

I just donated to NDN Collective's For the People Fund. Join me in supporting Indigenous resistance and renewal with a donation today.

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 7d

Our trainers also travelled to Tucson, AZ, to do a wheatpasting training and large-scale wheat-pasting mural, along with a community medic first aid skill share at the San Xavier Co-op Farm.

ℹ️ Read the full 2024 impact report: ndnco.cc/ndnimpact

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 12d

Yazmín was selected to be a 2024-26 NDN Changemaker Fellow, and we are honored to uplift her work and her story.

➡️To help us continue to support powerful Indigenous Changemakers like Yazmín, please donate to NDN Collective through our For The People Campaign at: ndnco.cc/ftpcdonate

Donate to For The People

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 12d

Today, Yazmín is part of @upeekbalwaye, a peninsular network for the future of the Mayan language; she co-directs the Nojolo'on Community Center for Peace in Peto, Yucatán, and is one of the mentors in linguistic revitalization for the Endangered Languages Project organization.

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 13d

➕SPOKEN WORD➕
Autumn White Eyes @autumnwhiteeyes
Pte San Win @𝑷𝒕𝒆𝑺𝒂𝒏𝑾𝒊𝒏

➕COMEDY➕
Jana Schmieding @janaunplgd

➕SHORT FILM SCREENING➕
POW! By Joey Clift @joeycliiiiiift

➕DJ➕
WillieMaze @thewilliemaze

➕SPECIAL PERFORMANCE➕
Macklemore @macklemore

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #FreeThingsToDo

NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 13d

➕IPD HEADLINERS➕
AntoineX @antoinexmusic
MIRACLE @miraclespottedbear

➕MUSICAL PERFORMERS➕
Nevad Brave @officialnevadbrave
The Bearhead Sisters (tiktok)
Xiuhtezcatl @xiuhtezcatl
Mic Jordan @micjordanmusic
Isaac Tonasket @isaac__tonasket
Santee Witt
Nanibaah @nanibaah
Hawane Rios @hawanemusic

NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 13d

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.

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 23d

“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

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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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 26d

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

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · Aug 28

The design depicts 4 bison running alongside the moon phases. Their inclusion is a celebration of their resurgence after near extinction. They symbolize resilience, collective healing, and our interconnectedness (or Mitákuye Oyás'iŋ).

#Landback #CreativeResistance #Bison #NativeArtists

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · Aug 28

New mural in the Black Hills. This mural was a collaboration between Mural On The Wall and NDN collective aimed at celebrating Indigenous femininity and Native kinship.

In this mural you will find 3 Indigenous women standing together wearing dentalium, elk’s teeth, cowrie shells, and ribbons.

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · Aug 27

Support the For the People Campaign! Your donation directly supports Indigenous organizers, Nations, Tribes, and communities leading the fight for justice and liberation: ndnco.cc/ftpcdonate

ℹ️To learn more ways to support, read this blog: ndnco.cc/25ftpcbb1

Donate to For The People

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · Aug 27

The political and financial landscape has shifted, but relatives, we have been here before. At NDN, we are pivoting, evolving, and rising in a new way to ensure we can continue building Indigenous power for years to come.

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our organization was created for moments like this, where our human and civil rights are under attack, democratic backsliding is real, and authoritarianism is on the rise.

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · Aug 27

NDN Collective was founded 7 years ago and has made a significant impact on Indigenous communities across Turtle Island and beyond through our grants, grassroots organizing, loan distribution, narrative change, and political education.

ℹ️Learn more about our impact in 2024: ndnco.cc/ndnimpact

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · Aug 27

In the latest episode of LBFTP: Nick Tilsen, NDN’s CEO, joins NDN’s President Wizipan Little Elk Garriott and VP Gaby Strong to talk about the current political moment, changes to the movement-building landscape, and the future of our organization.

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · Aug 27

Relatives, we aren’t going anywhere. “We are here to stay and scrap this out.”

🔔Listen to the FULL episode NOW!
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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · Aug 22

NDN Collective’s 2024 Impact Report is available now. To learn more, read the full Press Release: ndnco.cc/2024impactpr

NDN Collective Releases 2024 Impact Report, “Working For The People” - NDN COLLECTIVE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 22, 2025 Rapid City, SD – Today, NDN Collective – an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building...

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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · Aug 22

The stories shared in our 2024 Impact Report are why we continue to invest in the self-determination of Indigenous Peoples globally, through our organizing, policy, resourcing, lending, data sovereignty, and narrative change.

➡️ Help us continue this vital work, donate: ndnco.cc/ftpcdonate