Indigenous Futures Society

The Indigenous Futures Society's mission is to elevate Indigenous place-based wisdom, leadership, and guardianship to achieve reparative justice and resilient Sierra Nevada cultural ecologies and communities for future generations. We have four interwoven program areas: (1) Land and Water Guardians: Applying our deep understanding of the natural world to heal the land and ensure its vitality for future generations; (2) Emergency Preparedness and Climate Adaption: Where Fire Meets Knowledge: Tribal-Driven Climate Resilience Rooted in Emergency Infrastructure, Climate Science, and Cultural Wisdom; (3) Cultural Ecologies: Preserving a worldview that sees the earth as a living entity, not just for its benefits to humans but for its own sake and for the 
benefit of all life; and (4) Sierra Nevada Tribal Summit: Our flagship annual event where Tribal members are re-imagining Indigenous Futures in the Sierra Nevada.

We envision a future where: ◆ All people respect Indigenous cultural ecologies of the Sierra Nevada. ◆ Indigenous voices, leadership, and knowledge are centered in the movement to restore resiliency to our environment and communities. ◆ Rights of Nature are honored, and everyone understands their inherent caretaking responsibility to be a guardian. ◆ Indigenous peoples restore and protect the land through practices that have sustained the region for generations. ◆ Indigenous peoples’ cultures, lands, and languages thrive. ◆ All of our relations (humans and more than humans) are given equal voice. ◆ Women’s voices as cultural keepers are centered. ◆ All peoples learn from the land, intergenerational transmission of knowledge, and cultural wisdom.