Soul of Nations Foundation

The Soul of Nations Foundation is a 501(c)3 for-purpose organization that aims to uplift Indigenous peoples through various forms of media, innovative strategy, and youth-led initiatives.

Our mission is to progress Indigenous youth and communities through the arts, research, and scholarship. We are continuing to meet this goal by providing domestic and international programming for young Indigenous leaders in the fields of visual art, policy research, and academic scholarship; remaining a safe space for creative thought through boundary-pushing youth-led strategies; expanding our platform for free expression by pioneering futuristic and experimental initiatives; and galvanizing a powerful network of talented and multifaceted visionaries to create a longstanding impact in our world.

We envision a world where all Indigenous communities and people of color are respected as contemporary societies and have greater access to equal opportunities in the social, creative, academic, and economic sectors.

In order to successfully support Indigenous people, it imperative to understand who they are:

Indigenous communities, peoples, and nations are those which, having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories, or parts of them. They form at present dominant and non-dominant sectors of society and are determined to preserve, develop and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories, and their ethnic identity, as the basis of their continued existence as peoples, in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions, and legal system.

The Soul of Nations Foundation is guided by the Jemez Principles of Democratic Organizing and aims to further implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.

Together we can be the voice!

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