In Season 3, Episode 4: Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective CEO and Founder, sits down with Amy Sauze, Remembering the Children’s Executive Director, and Dr. Valeriah Big Eagle, Director of He Sapa Initiatives for NDN Collective, to talk about LANDBACK’s relationship to healing intergenerational trauma. 

GUESTS: Amy Sazue Dr. Valeriah Big Eagle

LEARN MORE: https://www.rememberingthechildren.org/ 

NDN COLLECTIVE: To learn about our big wins and hear stories from our grantees and loan relative across Turtle Island, read our 2024 Impact Report on our website at: https://ndncollective.org/impact-reports

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For more ways to support, read our For the People Campaign blog: ndnco.cc/25ftpcbb1 

EPISODE CREDITS:  Host: Nick Tilsen  Producer: Willi White  Music: Mato Wayuhi  Editor: Willi White Copywriter: Jordynn Paz Digital Engagement: Angie Solloa Production Support: Layne L. LeBeaux

PRESS & MEDIA: [email protected] 

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In Season 3, Episode 3: Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective CEO and Founder, joins NDN Collective President Wizipan Little Elk Garriott and Vice President Gaby Strong to talk about the current political moment, changes to the movement building landscape and the future of our organization.

NDN Collective was founded seven years ago and has created significant impact for Indigenous People across Turtle Island through grants, grassroots organizing, loans, narrative change, and political education. Our organization was created for moments like the one we are in now, where human and civil rights are under attack and authoritarianism is on the rise. Democratic backsliding is real. The political and financial landscape has shifted. This has caused our organization to pivot, evolve, and rise up to ensure we can continue building Indigenous power for years to come.

FEATURING: Wizipan Little Elk Garriott Gaby Strong

Support the For the People Campaign today! Your donation to NDN Collective directly supports Indigenous organizers, Nations, Tribes, and communities leading the fight for justice and liberation. Donate now to fund the frontlines, fuel the movement, and rematriate wealth. ndnco.cc/ftpcdonate. To learn more ways to support, read our For the People Campaign blog: ndnco.cc/25ftpcbb1 

EPISODE CREDITS:  Host: Nick Tilsen  Producer: Willi White  Music: Mato Wayuhi Editor: Willi White Copywriter: Jordynn Paz Digital Engagement: Angie Solloa  Production Support: Layne L. LeBeaux

PRESS & MEDIA: Cabot Petoia, [email protected] 

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Nick Tilsen sits down with the guys of Sacred Storm Buffalo to talk about their work, the importance of investing into community-led enterprises, and how the restoration of buffalo back into community is LANDBACK.

Sacred Storm Buffalo, a community-rooted and culturally grounded workforce development enterprise of the nonprofit Wambli Ska Okolakiciye, is dedicated to restoring strength, purpose, and connection for Native people and families through the art and discipline of Indigenous meat processing. The training and production center—opened last year with support from a $1.6 million investment through NDN Collective’s Indigenous-designed power-building loans—serves as a living blueprint for food sovereignty and self-determined economic renewal. 

GUESTS: Chris White Eagle Will Brave Bird Jose Arguello Franky Frazier Chance White Eagle

WANT TO LEARN MORE? • Visit their website: https://sacredstormbuffalo.org/  • Read: Sacred Storm Buffalo to Open Retail Shop in Rapid City, South Dakota • Read: Patagonia Blog About Sacred Storm Buffalo

Support the For the People Campaign today! Your donation to NDN Collective directly supports Indigenous organizers, Nations, Tribes, and communities leading the fight for justice and liberation. Donate now to support those doing the work. Fund the frontlines, empower the movement, and rematriate the wealth. ndnco.cc/ftpcdonate

To learn more ways to support, read our For the People Campaign blog: ndnco.cc/25ftpcbb1

EPISODE CREDITS: Host: Nick Tilsen Producer: Willi White Co-Producer: Steph VieraEditor: Willi White Music: Mato Wayuhi

In Season 3 Episode 1: Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective CEO and Founder, sits down with He Sapa Otipi’s Executive Director, Cante Heart and Dr. Valeriah Big Eagle, NDN Collective Director of Strategic Partnerships, two Indigenous matriarchs leading the work of developing an Indian Center in MniLuzahan (Rapid City). 

He Sapa Otipi is an emerging non-profit rooted in Lakota values and traditions that revitalizes traditional kinships and fosters a sense of belonging within the community of MniLuzahan. It provides a safe space for reconnecting our spirits to ceremony, community, cultural identity, and awareness. He Sapa Otipi works to educate, engage, and empower Native populations while celebrating the richness of our shared values and heritage. 

✊🏽 WANT TO LEARN MORE? • Visit the He Sapa Otipi website: www.hesapaotipi.org 

Support the For the People Campaign today! Your donation to NDN Collective directly supports Indigenous organizers, Nations, Tribes, and communities leading the fight for justice and liberation. Donate now to stand with those doing the work. Fund the frontlines, fuel the movement, rematriate the wealth. ndnco.cc/ftpcdonate

To learn more ways to support, read our For the People Campaign blog: ndnco.cc/25ftpcbb1  

EPISODE CREDITS: Host: Nick Tilsen Producer: Willi White Co-Producer: Steph VieraEditor: Willi White Music: Mato Wayuhi Set Photography: Angel White Eyes

On this kickoff episode of Season 3 of LANDBACK For the People, Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective's Founder & CEO, welcomes new leadership to NDN Collective, President Wizipan Little Elk In this conversation we unpack the triad of leadership at NDN Collective, examining the origins of Nick, Wizipan, and Vice President Gaby Strong, and how they each came into their roles at the organization. We learn from each of them the makings of impactful Indigenous leadership, the interconnectedness of Indigenous lifeways that make the LANDBACK movement what it is today, and much more. 

✊🏽 WANT TO LEARN MORE? ▶️Meet Wizipan Little Elk Garriat: https://ndnco.cc/ncanp  ▶️ Meet Gaby Strong: https://ndncollective.org/groups/office-of-the-vice-president/ 

Support Indigenous-led narratives and organizing by donating to NDN Collective today at https://ndncollective.org/donate 

EPISODE CREDITS: Host: Nick Tilsen Producer: Willi White Co-Producer: Steph VieraEditor: Willi White Music: Mato Wayuhi Set Photography: Angel White Eyes

On this final episode of season 2, Nick Tilsen talks with Jason Sole to discuss what being an abolitionist means, the origins of FTP, how the LANDBACK movement and Black Liberation are required for our collective liberation, and that Black and Indigenous solidarity is a practice that we need to build within our movements. 

ABOUT JASON SOLE: Jason, formerly incarcerated, is an abolitionist. He has been a criminal justice educator for over 12 years and has been a national restorative justice trainer since 2008, In 2019, he received the John Legend “Can’t Just Preach” award for his work to abolish prisons. In addition, Jason is the co-founder of the Humanize My Hoodie Movement in which he challenges threat perceptions about Black people through clothing, art exhibitions, documentary screenings, and workshops. 

✊🏽 WANT TO LEARN MORE? ▶️ Check out Humanize My Hood by visiting: https://www.humanizemyhoodie.com/ ▶️ Learn more about Jason: https://jasonsole.com/ ▶️ Follow the Humanize My Hood on Instagram: @humanizemyhoodie

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EPISODE CREDITS: Host: Nick Tilsen Producer: Willi White Co-Producer: Steph VieraEditor: Willi White Music: Mato Wayuhi Set Photography: Angel White Eyes

On this episode of LANDBACK FOR THE PEOPLE, Nick Tilsen invites Deenaalee Hodgdon, Co-Executive Director of Smokehouse Collective, Executive Producer of “On the Land” Podcast, and NDN Collective Radical Imagination artist, to discuss the subsistence lifeways of the Arctic through fishing and tracking salmon to feed and sustain their communities.

✊🏽 WANT TO LEARN MORE? ▶️ Visit the Smokehouse Collective website: https://smokehousecollective.org/ ▶️ Follow on Instagram: @go_barefoot

Support Indigenous-led narratives and organizing by donating to NDN Collective today at https://ndncollective.org/donate 

EPISODE CREDITS: Host: Nick Tilsen Producer: Willi White Co-Producer: Steph VieraEditor: Steph Viera Music: Mato Wayuhi Set Photography: Angel White Eyes

On this episode of LANDBACK FOR THE PEOPLE, Nick Tilsen invites filmmakers Julian Brave Noisecat (former NDN Collective Media Fellow) and Emily Kassie, directors of the award winning documentary SUGARCANE, to have the conversation on Indian boarding schools (known as residential schools in Canada) and its relationship with land back. 

Boarding schools and education were weaponized in order to assimilate Indigenous people into mainstream society. We’re asking our allies and accomplices to share this episode with your families and communities because it’s important to understand what has happened historically to our people. It is important to understand the trauma that still exists and how that has a direct correlation to the challenges that we face today. 

SUGARCANE is NOW STREAMING on DISNEY+ and HULU.

✊🏽 WANT TO LEARN MORE? ▶️ Visit the SUGARCANE website: https://sugarcanefilm.com ▶️ Follow the film on Instagram: @sugarcanefilm

Support Indigenous-led narratives and organizing by donating to NDN Collective today at https://ndncollective.org/donate 

EPISODE CREDITS:  Host: Nick Tilsen  Producer: Willi White  Co-Producer: Steph Viera Editor: Willi White Music: Mato Wayuhi  Set Photography: Angel White Eyes

In Season 2 Episode 4: Protect the ȞeSápa, Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective President and CEO talks about the the history of mining in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the direct corelation of the General Mining Act of 1872 and its relationship with the stealing of Indigenous land, and how we are working to protect the ȞeSápa today. "As long as the history is for the ȞeSápa, so is the history of resistance."

Featured guests include Taylor Gunhammer and Andrew Catt-Iron Shell, local organizers for NDN Collective.

✊🏽 Want to learn more about our Protect the HeSapa Campaign?

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"ȞeSápa" is the Lakota word and name of the Black Hills in western South Dakota.

In Season 2 Episode 3: The NDNs are coming! ... to Hold Racism Accountable, Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective President and CEO talks about the racism towards Indigenous Peoples on their homelands and how systemic racism is a problematic cause of economic injustice for our Indigenous relatives across Turtle Island.

It's a daily hardship, "Whether it's in Gallup or in Rapid City. The story is the same." Nick Tilsen said. Our 'Rapid City vs. Racism' campaign is our effort to dismantle systemic racism on our homelands in Rapid City, which includes the civil rights lawsuit against the Grand Gateway Hotel.

Featured guests include Sunny Red Bear, Associate Director of Organizing, and Eva Cardenas, Director of Organizing.

✊🏽 Want to learn more about our Rapid City vs. Racism Campaign?

▶️ Visit our website: ndnco.cc/rapidvsracism

▶️ Read our recent press release: ndnco.cc/ggt-pressconference

▶️ Watch our full press conference: bit.ly/47jkIlG

▶️ For more information on the Grand Gateway lawsuit, visit: ndnco.cc/grandgateway

📲 Text RAPIDVRACISM to 50302 for updates on upcoming events to hold racist people and systems accountable in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Support our organizing. Contribute to our Indigenous-led organization today! When you donate to a 501(c)(3) non-profit not only advances our mission but also offers potential tax benefits for you.

To make a contribution, visit: ndnco.cc/donate