| MISSION |
- Support the preservation
of native cultures and traditional community living.
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| VISION |
- Assist in creating sustainability in native communities that can serve as living models from which we can learn wholeness, balance, and harmony.
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| ACTIVITIES |
- Provide training and support within native communities that will increase self-sufficiency and quality of life.
- Supporting community-based projects that are integral to their
traditions and culture
- Investe in innovations, micro-enterprises, skill building,
empowerment, and cooperation within native and traditional communities in ways
that support traditional culture.
- Nurture leadership qualities and empowerment in individuals
and groups that foster healing and wholeness in communities.
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| PRINCIPLES |
- All efforts require consideration of sustainability, responsibility,
reciprocity, compassion, tolerance, respect, and humility.
- We have much to learn from aboriginal cultures, traditions,
and conventions that have sustained spirituality and balance for centuries.
- The well-being of each of us depends on the well-being of all
beings.
- We must continually question ourselves and seek clarity and
truth.
- Communities working together are capable of recognizing their
own strengths, abilities, needs and priorities.
- Economic empowerment is a means to supporting, dignifying,
and empowering the cultural life of aboriginal peoples.
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| PRIORITIES |
- Assist where self-determination and self-sufficiency can grow.
- Focus on activities that promote and sustain the strengths of
traditional cultures and their spiritual values.
- Focus on activities that empower and sustain leaders and groups
that foster healing, wholeness, and balance in communities.
- Respect for the natural environment and conserving its well-being.
- Respect and care for the most vulnerable members of a community:
children, elderly, women, sick, and disabled.
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