Indigenous Roots and Reparation Foundation

Your support helps IRRF preserve Indigenous culture, language, and traditions while creating safe spaces for community connection. When you give, you can choose to earmark your donation for:

• Land Back
• General Funds
• Specific Event (i.e., 2027 Indigenous Roots Camp)

Donate at https://www.indigenousrrf.org/donate.

Honoring the salmon 🧡

A few more scenes from Dangerous Women: Common Ground a couple weeks ago. IRRF is proud to support Dangerous Women and the powerful storytelling, artistry, and connection they bring to our community.

And if you haven’t been lately, the Icicle Center for the Arts hosts so many incredible performances and events throughout the year. It is definitely worth checking out their upcoming schedule at icicle.org.

Congratulations to all graduates this season, especially Native and Indigenous students.

This is a time to honor your hard work, resilience, and the many people who have supported you along the way. Your achievements carry not only your own journey forward, but also the strength of your families, communities, and ancestors.

We celebrate you and the paths you are stepping into next.

Today is World Environment Day. A reminder that the Earth is always communicating; through rising temperatures, changing seasons, and the conditions around us.

This year’s focus highlights climate change and the urgent signals the planet is sending, along with the actions we take in response.

For Indigenous peoples, these conversations are not new. Relationship to land, water, air, and all living systems has always been rooted in responsibility, reciprocity, and care for future generations.

On this day, we recognize both the urgency of this moment and the long-standing teachings that guide care for the Earth.

This Fri June 5th, 2026 is the Wenatchi Salmon Ceremony.

This is open to the public. IRRF will provide coffee and light snacks

Shared from Wenatchi Advisory Group/Tribal Members & Descendants group.

The First People exhibit at the Rocky Reach Discovery Center shares the rich and lasting history of the Indigenous communities of the Columbia River. Just 7 miles north of Wenatchee, this immersive experience offers a chance to step back in time and explore the region’s First Peoples through restored artifacts and meaningful cultural history.

The discovery center is free, educational, and fun for all ages.

Great news and what a beautiful space!

The opening of Camel Rock Studios in New Mexico marks a historic moment for Indigenous representation in film and media. Developed by the Tesuque Pueblo on sovereign tribal land near Santa Fe, the studio is recognized as the first major Native American-owned film studio in the United States.

For generations, Native stories in Hollywood were often told through outside perspectives, with Indigenous people frequently misrepresented, stereotyped, or excluded entirely from shaping their own narratives. Camel Rock Studios represents a powerful shift toward Indigenous-led storytelling — where Native communities have greater control over how their cultures, histories, and voices are portrayed on screen.

Built from the transformation of a former casino property, the studio is designed to support film production, creative development, and economic opportunity while creating space for Native filmmakers, actors, writers, producers, and crew members to work within an industry that has historically offered limited representation.

Supporters say the project is about far more than entertainment.
It is about sovereignty.
Self-determination.
And the power of communities telling their own stories on their own terms.

For many Indigenous cultures, storytelling has always carried teachings, identity, memory, and connection between generations. Through film and media, those stories now have the opportunity to reach global audiences while remaining rooted in Indigenous perspectives and lived experience.

The studio also reflects a growing movement across Native communities toward reclaiming narrative control in media, education, art, and public history. Rather than being spoken for, Indigenous creators are increasingly building their own platforms, productions, and institutions.

For many people, Camel Rock Studios symbolizes something larger than a building.
It symbolizes visibility.
Creative independence.
And a future where Native voices are no longer treated as side stories in their own homelands.

Our Mission: The Indigenous Roots and Reparation Foundation (IRRF) is an Indigenous-led nonprofit established in 2021 to preserve Indigenous history, culture, traditions, and language through education and advocacy.

IRRF supports and uplifts all Indigenous peoples and is rooted in community, collaboration, and Indigenous values. We operate by consensus and are guided by Elder leadership on our Board.

Our work centers on providing space for cultural practice and gathering, preserving Indigenous knowledge, and supporting community wellbeing and environmental stewardship.

We are here to learn, build, and grow in relationship with one another and the land.

IRRF Deputy Director Mattie Tomeo-Palmanteer attended the Vital Conditions Peer Learning Meeting May 6, 2026. The agenda items included Stewardship, Systems Change Rooted in Relationships, and Multi-solving to produce solutions that address multiple challenges simultaneously.

We extend our gratitude to the Vital Conditions Grant for facilitating this in-person opportunity to foster professional relationships, reflect on, and practice the thriving together co-creation conditions and principles, while also engaging in peer learning with community organizations.