Restoring Balance Collaborative

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙖 𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨?

Join us for the Living Rivers Dinner, an evening exploring Indigenous leadership, river personhood, and the growing global movement to protect our waters for future generations.

Featuring Honorable Deb Haaland, Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior; Chairwoman Amelia Flores, Colorado River Indian Tribes; and Turama Hawira, Pou Tupua of the Whanganui River (Aotearoa/New Zealand), this special gathering will bring together powerful voices shaping the future of water stewardship.

The Living Rivers Dinner is included with Sacred Waters registration and is also available as a standalone experience.

🗓️ June 24, 2026 | 6 PM
📍 Isleta Resort | Albuquerque, New Mexico
👉 Register here: https://cvent.me/xEMKWZ

All proceeds support community participation in A Meeting of Sacred Waters.

Our knowledge systems guide how we protect our land and waters and how we pass that sacred responsibility forward.

Indigenous ethical frameworks. Youth stepping into leadership. Confronting nuclear harm. Rematriation and water governance. Educators keeping teachings alive.

These are just some of the voices helping shape conversations on leadership, teaching, and land and water stewardship at Sacred Waters 2026.

Join us!

🌊 Sacred Waters 2026
📍June 22-25, 2026 | Isleta Resort | Albuquerque, NM
🔗 Register: https://cvent.me/xEMKWZ

In just 14 days, Indigenous leaders, knowledge keepers, artists, organizers, and community members will gather for Sacred Waters 2026.

Together, we’ll explore what it means to protect water, restore balance, and build toward collective futures grounded in relationship, reciprocity, and care.

We look forward to gathering in community with each of you soon.

Register: https://cvent.me/G3YAyd

Our relationship with water is changing.

Ceremony and the arts. Youth voices and access. Technology and storytelling. Indigenous stewardship. Community care.

These are just some of the conversations that will take place during the concurrent sessions at Sacred Waters 2026. Together, speakers, facilitators, artists, and community leaders will create space to explore what it means to reimagine our relationship with water.

𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪?

🌊 Sacred Waters 2026
📍 June 22-25, 2026 | Isleta Resort | Albuquerque, NM
🔗 Join us: https://cvent.me/xEMKWZ

“𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙬𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨.”— Chairwoman Amelia Flores, Colorado River Indian Tribes

On June 24, three powerful Indigenous leaders will gather for an inspiring conversation that’s part of a movement already reshaping how we protect our rivers and lands.

Featuring prominent speakers, the Living Rivers Dinner will focus on the legal personhood of rivers through Indigenous lenses, while honoring the origins of Sacred Waters and the Indigenous leadership shaping the future of our rivers.

🗓️ June 24, 2026 | 6 PM
📍 Isleta Resort | Albuquerque, New Mexico
👉 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://cvent.me/xEMKWZ

All proceeds support community participation in A Meeting of Sacred Waters.

Good News for the Land 🌎

The Yindjibarndi people in Western Australia are advancing an Indigenous-led renewable energy project rooted in stewardship, self-determination, and long-term care for their homelands.

Through the Jinbi solar project, the Yindjibarndi are building pathways for community-led energy development while protecting culturally significant lands and creating opportunities for future generations.

This work reflects something Indigenous communities around the world have always known: solutions grounded in relationship to land, culture, and community create stronger futures for everyone.

Across the globe, Indigenous Peoples continue leading innovative approaches to stewardship, governance, and sustainability — reminding us that caring for the land and caring for community are deeply connected.

Read the story: https://yindjibarndi.com.au/yindjibarndi-energy-projects-hailed-by-key-experts/

Native Nonprofit Day is a reminder of something we see every day—Native-led organizations are leading solutions for our communities, lands, and waters.

And yet, Native nonprofits continue to receive only a fraction of philanthropic funding.

We are relatives in this work. Supporting Native-led organizations isn’t just about giving. It’s about investing in leadership, knowledge systems, stewardship, and futures that already exist within Indigenous communities.

Learn more about how the Restoring Balance Collaborative is carrying this work forward — and the communities that sustain it. https://tinyurl.com/379uaku7

If you’re looking for a way to be part of it:
• Learn about how the Collaborative is investing in Indigenous stewardship solutions
• Share our work
• Support in whatever way you can

Because when Native communities lead, we all move forward.
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Pueblo women are rematriating their lands. Haudenosaunee communities are strengthening connections in water caretaking. Kūlana Kahuʻāina are developing ethical codes for caring for ancestral places and the knowledge systems tied to them. Māori wisdom keepers are upholding kawa, the sacred natural order of creation, through global learning and exchange.

At Sacred Waters 2026, leaders from these communities will come together for the Land & Water Stewards Panel: Upholding Ancestral Responsibilities in Practice.

Together, they will share stewardship practices shaped through lived experience, ancestral knowledge, and responsibility to land and water.

What barriers are communities navigating? What’s working? What can we learn to bring into our own communities and stewardship practices?

Their work reminds us what becomes possible when stewardship is led by those who carry the knowledge.

📍 June 25, 2026
📍 Sacred Waters | Albuquerque, New Mexico

We look forward to learning alongside you. Register here: https://cvent.me/xEMKWZ

Where we gather matters.

This June, Sacred Waters returns to the traditional homelands of the Pueblo of Isleta, where water has long guided life, culture, and decision-making along the Rio Grande.

Our gathering space at Isleta Resort & Casino was intentionally chosen for its connection to place, story, and community. From architecture inspired by Pueblo heritage to design elements reflecting the surrounding river and desert landscape, the space itself invites reflection, relationship-building, and dialogue.

As you plan your journey to Sacred Waters 2026, we encourage you to reserve your accommodations soon. Discounted hotel rooms are available through May 28, 2026.

📍 Sacred Waters 2026
June 22–25, 2026
Isleta Resort & Casino | Albuquerque, New Mexico

There’s a circle being held for you. Register here: https://cvent.me/xEMKWZ