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.

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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.

Arts & Culture

All My Relations Arts

All My Relations Arts presents four exhibits throughout the year, as well as hosting tours, presentations, and programs like the Native Authors Program, Consulting Projects and We Are Still Here Cohort.
Civic Engagement

Make Voting A Tradition

Make Voting A Tradition (MVAT) is a culturally specific, year-round, multi-generational approach to increase voter turnout and civic engagement now in its eighth year of operation.
Food Sovereignty

Four Sister's Market

Four Sisters works to restore health and well-being in the Urban Indian and Phillips communities by recovering knowledge and access to Indigenous food, medicine, and traditions through our Farmers Market and Urban Farm.
Community Engagement

Cultural Corridor

NACDI works in the densest Urban Indian population in the country. Our programs are contributing to the health and vitality for American Indian people by advancing equitable opportunities and promoting racial equity and inclusion.

Upcoming Events

  • Apr 19, 2024–Apr 20, 2024 | 10:00am–02:00pmAll My Relations Arts & Four Sisters Spring Market – All My Relations Arts + Four Sisters Farmers Market Artisan Market is back! Join us Friday and Saturday, April 19th and 20th, for a pop-up vendor extravaganza. 10 am – 2 pm at the All My Relations Arts gallery (1414 E. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis, 55404). Featuring arts, jewelry, apothecary, home goods and crafts from: Wiishkoban […] Learn More

  • Seedling Giveaway. Four Sisters Spring Welcoming Event. May 18th, 11-3pm at the Four Sisters Urban Farm (bold) 2839 17th Ave S, Minneapolis MN
    May 18, 2024 | 11:00am–03:00pmSeedling Giveaway: Four Sisters Food Sovereignty and EPIC Spring Welcoming Event – 2839 17th S Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55407-1405, United StatesJoin Four Sisters Food Sovereignty and EPIC for our second annual Spring Welcoming event at the Four Sisters Urban Farm! We will celebrate the upcoming growing season with food from Las Cuatro Milpas food truck, music, fun activities from several other community organizations, and seedlings to give away grown in partnership with Dream of Wild […] Learn More

  • Open House Save the date. NACDI, AICDC, Pow Wow Groudns. Stay tuned.
    May 21, 2024 | 11:30–11:30amOpen House – NACDI, AICDC, and Pow Wow Grounds American Indian MonthAICDC, Pow Wow Grounds and NACDI’s open house is on May 21st from 11:30 am – 2 pm. May is American Indian Month in Mni Sota. Many Native led organizations host open houses to visit with community and share information about the services and programs the organizations provide. Learn More

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News

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NACDI Joins the Good Relatives Collaborative

We are excited to announce that we have joined the Good Relatives Collaborative (GRC). The collaborative is made up of the Sacred Pipe Resource Center, Four Bands Community Fund, and Black Hills Community Loan Fund. … Read More

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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

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All My Relations Arts Gallery Presents

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.

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