Our Heritage Welcomes All
Inspire Equality by Traditional Teachings and Practices
Our organization honors the wisdom of our Elders. Celebrates the strength of our Adults. Encourages the insight of our youth. Our growth is their growth. Putting the traditions of welcoming all into practice.
We seek to strengthen Native urban families, build connection to culture, enable healing and protect our waters.
We seek to strengthen Native urban families, build connection to culture, enable healing and protect our waters.
OUR MISSION
To preserve Indigenous culture by nurturing families and protecting water. We do this through cross-generational community building, cultural strengthening, and continuing to deepen our connection to the environment.
Renea Perry, PANCF ED
“In our Native communities, we're very relational. And so, the people in our canoe families are our relatives. Plants and trees and water are also our relatives. We're relational to everything where we are. There is a cultural way of being on the water that gets handed down when we are in our canoes – respect, relationship, and reciprocity of care. We get to practice our language or the language of the land. The people, the land, the language is the culture. And so being on the water is part of caring for and protecting each other, the land, and the water.”
“If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms. We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us.”
— Winona LaDuke