Helping Native people create the future they envision.
NACDI’s work is founded on the belief that all American Indian people have a place, purpose, and a future strengthened by sustainable asset-based community development. Since 2007, NACDI’s work facilitates systems change through our integrated pathways of Community Engagement, Community Organizing, Community Development, and Indigenous Arts and Culture.
Focus Areas
NACDI’s key projects include: All My Relations Arts, Four Sisters Farmers Market and Urban Farm, and Make Voting A Tradition (MVAT). NACDI is building a vibrant future for all of our relations.
All My Relations Arts
Make Voting A Tradition
Four Sister's Market
Cultural Corridor
Upcoming Events
- Mar 21, 2024 | 5:30–07:30pmFour Sisters Business Workshop: Finances for Small Businesses – Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Urban Office, 1308 E Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404.Learn the basics of Generally Accepted Accounting Practices for small businesses from Financial Consultant, Toby Jones. Strengthen financial literacy and bookkeeping skills that aim to help early entrepreneurs separate business and personal expenses – a skill important in tax reporting. Toby Jones is an enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and has worked […] Learn More
- Mar 28, 2024 | 5:30–07:30pmFour Sisters Business Workshop: Getting Started at Farmers Markets – Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Urban Office, 1308 E Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404.Reimagine the way you see starting a business! In this session, Destiny Jones, the manager of Four Sister Farmers Market, will give an overview of the benefits of having your early business at farmers markets. Highlights will include what to prepare for when vending, what to expect during the market season, and most importantly- how […] Learn More
News
Community Health Conversations: Okizi – Using Art as Tool for Healing
Angela Two Stars and Juleana Enright both share their passion for the arts and how it is a tool for healing. In this episode, they share the inside scoop with us behind the latest exhibition at the All My Relations Arts Gallery called Okizi which means healing one’s self. Read More
New Four Sisters Business Workshops This March!
Are you an early entrepreneur looking for tips on getting your business started or keeping it afloat? Join the Native American Community Development Institute’s program Four Sisters Farmers Market for a set of business workshops this March! This series of workshops will be held in the evening at the… Read More
Okizi (To Heal)
Okizi (To Heal) is a partner exhibition with the American Swedish Institute (ASI) in response to the traveling exhibition, Arctic Highways: Unbound Indigenous People. A common theme of these dual exhibitions is the healing impacts of cultural revitalization. While efforts were made to separate Native peoples from their spirituality, language, and cultural knowledge and traditions, Okizi highlights the revitalization efforts that reconnect this generation and future generations to our language, land, and culture as a means of healing from historical and generational trauma.