RADICAL BRIDGE BUILDING

The Healing and Reconciliation Institute works toward a more resilient future by bridging Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives, addressing historical and ongoing harms by facilitating a framework for repair.

  • Facilitating repair of past and/or present harms between Indigenous and non-Indigenous community partners, or within Indigenous groups, with an emphasis on implementing collaborative and inclusive frameworks for thriving ongoing partnerships.

  • A series of online workshops, trainings, and webinars informed by Native wisdom-keepers and HRI Peacemakers. Each Community Education event centers Indigenized knowledge-ways and history as as means of building bridges, strengthening connections, and healing harms.

  • Consulting and capacity-building for Tribes and Native-led nonprofits, to secure Indigenous futures in the face of modern demands. These services are offered across Turtle Island (the United States) with a focus on meeting the self-identified needs of federally unrecognized California Nations.

We are bridge-builders, facilitators, and peacemakers, working towards inclusive and collaborative models that serve the next seven generations and beyond.

Rooted in healing-centered practices, Indigenous-informed protocols, and support for the mending of the many impacts of colonization, each of our services is a direct response to Native-identified needs, requests, and invitations.  In responding to these we always make sure to center the ongoing growth and capacity-building of rising Indigenous leaders and culture-keepers.

Whether we’re supporting Tribes and Nations with 501c3 compliance, hosting peacemaking trainings, aiding in  the creation of co-stewardship and other land-based agreements, or facilitating listening circles and community repair, we’re guided by our organizational core values and a collective roll-up-your sleeves spirit.  We believe in hard work, collaborative communities, and Indigenous futures.

Here at HRI we love cultural foods, the outdoors, and music. We’re passionate about equity, inclusivity, and justice. We come from diverse lineages, upbringings, backgrounds, and experiences. We honor our shared humanity and planet.

We are HRI

Fiscally Sponsored Projects

HRI sponsors a small handful of Indigenous-led projects at any given time.  But we really can’t take any credit here- all the well-earned applause goes to our friends and relatives who are paving the way for their communities by passing on traditions, sharing resources, and uplifting communities. 

Connecting Indigenous youth with Native cultural practices to preserve traditional arts, songs, dances, stories, and ceremony

Indigenous-centered land rematriation
Itsu (“eet-su,” Esselen word): West, dusk, evening

You can donate to a fiscally sponsored project by clicking on the “Donate” button and typing “Razzle” or “Itsu” into the subject line.

We’re committed to Indigenous Sovereignty and Reconciliation.

Your generosity allows us to provide no- to low-cost Indigenous Governance consulting for Indigenous Tribes, Nations, and groups as close to home as the Native lands we’re on and as widespread as Washington state and the Dakotas.