Our work

Where the work lives.

Four connected efforts, one circle. From Land Back housing to food sovereignty to Two-Spirit visibility, every project is led by and accountable to the Native community it serves.

Featured · Housing · Land Back

Barbie's Village

A tiny-home village for six to ten Native families with an early-childhood program, on land returned to our community in 2024. Named in memory of Atwai Barbie Jackson Shields.

Community members gather at round tables in the renovated Barbie’s Village hall, with its curved wood wall.
Visibility

2-Spirit Survivance

Celebrating Indigequeer joy and visibility across Portland. With Multnomah County and TriMet, our Two-Spirit relatives created billboards and transit art honoring the sacred place Two-Spirit people have always held in our nations.

2-Spirit Survivance campaign artwork.
Food Sovereignty

Traditional Foods

Reconnecting families to the land through community harvests, traditional foods, and food boxes that nourish both body and culture.

Salmon fillets roast on wooden stakes around an open fire ringed with cinder blocks, outdoors on a lawn.
Early Childhood

Chaku Manaqi Lush

Culturally grounded care for expecting parents, babies, and little ones, from prenatal health through the earliest years.

Caregivers sit around a table making crafts together in a brick-walled community room.

This work belongs to all of us.

Show up, lend a hand, or help fund what comes next. There is a place for you in this circle.