What is a Rebuilder?
What Participants Learn
Indigenous-led and grounded in Indigenous values, the program helps future Rebuilders develop skills around community engagement, movement building, wellness, and Indigenized governance practices. We equip participants with a Native nation rebuilding framework they can use to solve problems, strengthen their communities, and jumpstart their leadership journeys.
During a typical Rebuilders session, participants might find themselves:
- Touring a Native nation
- Learning about Indigenous wealth models
- Developing leadership skills through interactive lessons
- Solving real-life governance issues
- Building kinship and new connections with a cohort of peers through planned and optional activities
- Learning through hands-on experiences – from cultural crafting to medicine walks
- Access to resources in support of an action plan
By participating in this program, Rebuilders contribute to the growing network of grassroots Indigenous changemakers committed to rebuilding their nations and helping their communities thrive for the next seven generations.
Become a Rebuilder
While we’re undergoing an intentional pause to renew our curriculum and program design, we’re still collecting information about folks who are interested in becoming a Rebuilder! Contact us today at [email protected] to be added to our prospect list.
“I’m in my second term as an elected representative for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. The Native Nation Rebuilders Program empowers leaders like me and prepares our future leaders to recover our sovereignty in both action and attitude.”
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Principles of Native Nation Rebuilding
Native nation rebuilding is about using Indigenous knowledge and values to solve modern-day problems in a way that makes sense to the nation.
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The Native nation rebuilding framework helps Native nations thrive. In this video, we explain the framework and how to put it into action.