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08/02/2026

Yesterday, we were happy to host an edible plants workshop at the Ohke Creations Farm and Gardens of shane weeks Bizhiki Nibauit on Shinnecock!

The workshop, led by co-founder Bianca C Collins, included a tour of the gardens, a presentation of edible natuve plants, a delicious meal prepared by Bianca incorporating native plants, and ended working on the land!

It was great to have new faces to the farm with great conversation! We were able to enjoy some of the wild abundance of Shinnecock with the blackberries in season and the wild grapes on the way!

Stay tuned for the next upcoming workshop!

07/31/2026

Join us tomorrow at Ohke Creations Farm!

We will be hosting our rescheduled Indigenous Edible Plants Workshop tomorrow from 10am-12pm and immediately following we will be hosting a Volunteer Day from 12pm-3pm. Please follow the links in our bio to RSVP for the workshop or to sign-up as a volunteer.

We invite you to join both events, just one, or simply to stop by to visit the land. A light lunch and refreshments will be provided to all of our volunteers. We look forward to spending this beautiful summer day with you at the farm💚

For further information or questions, please email [email protected].

07/30/2026

We are honored to play a role in helping get our relative Matchik(sea turtle) AKA Pancake back onto the water after being Cold stunned and rehabilitated by our partners AMSEAS 🐋 . Tabut ni to New York Aquarium for hosting
shane weeks Bizhiki Nibauit Tecumseh

07/29/2026

🚨We will be postponing today’s workshop to due to rainy conditions☔️

The new date and time is Saturday August 1, 2026 from 10am-12pm. We hope you can still join us for this wonderful event at Ohke Creations Farm!

In addition to the workshop, we’ll also be hosting an impromptu Volunteer Day from 12pm-3pm. So if you’re interested in spending the day with our team and helping us steward the land, please follow the link in our bio to RSVP! If you’ve already registered for this event, be on the look out for an email from [email protected].

We hope to see you there💜

07/15/2026

Upcoming Event💚

We invite you to join the co-founders of M.I.C. for an intimate gathering at Ohke Creations Farm (OCF). OCF is a newly established farm located on Shinnecock territory that is stewarded by our team and community volunteers.

Come spend an evening in this beautiful space as share more about our Ohkehtean-in ”One Who Sows (seeds)” Initiative and our vision for the farm. You’ll have an opportunity to become more familiar with various indigenous edible plants and even enjoy a delicious indigenous food tasting.

We look forward to hosting you! RSVP today as space is limited! Link in bio💚

07/01/2026

We are thrilled to announce that the Metoac Indigenous Collective is a 2026 LISCIF Grant Award Recipient🎉

The Long Island Sound Community Impact Fund (LISCIF), is a partnership with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Long Island Sound Partnership. Projects for this year’s round of funding address a wide range of environmental issues in the Long Island Sound, focusing on actions highlighted in the Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan around the four themes of: Clean Waters and Healthy Watersheds; Thriving Habitats and Abundant Wildlife; Sustainable and Resilient Communities; Informed and Engaged Public. Awardees seek to achieve economic and health benefits for the Long Island Sound, as well as increase public access to waterfronts.

The Rematriating Water Initiative, created and led by M.I.C. Co-founder Bianca Collins, seeks to address the need to strengthen the inherent kinship between the Indigenous Peoples of Long Island and the waters surrounding their ancestral territories, including the Long Island Sound. This Indigenous-led initiative will serve as a resource to engage and educate local community stakeholders about the Long Island Sound and its watershed through an Indigenous lens while fortifying relationships. Indigenous peoples have stewarded the lands and waters of Long Island since time immemorial and in present day our fundamental responsibility, reverence, and interconnected kinship to these relatives is still honored. Rematriation is a concept rooted in Indigeneity that centers traditional matriarchal leadership related to stewarding and protecting lands and waters. This concept challenges extractive patriarchal and repatriation practices, which lack integrity and intentional reconciliation, by restoring sacred relationships between Indigenous Peoples, their ancestral lands, waters, lifeways, and allowing for interconnected healing.

We are honored to receive this award to support such a meaningful and necessary initiative. Tabutne (thank you) to Restoring America’s Estuaries, Long Island Sound Partnership, US EPA, and the Water Mill Center for this opportunity.

Visit www.metoaccollective.org for ways to support!

05/21/2026

Today is Native Nonprofit Day🎉

Metoac Indigenous Collective is an Indigenous-led nonprofit whose mission is centered around cultural revitalization, preservation, and bringing healing to the Indigenous communities of Long Island, which include land, people, animal relatives, and all non-human kin. Our initiatives range from Indigenous Gardening, Canoe Culture, Wampum Belt Creation, Rematriation, and more.

Indigenous nonprofits are uniquely positioned to address the needs of their communities by being rooted in traditional knowledge, practices, and life ways. However, historically Indigenous communities have received less than .5% of total annual US philanthropic giving. Despite these systemic disparities, M.I.C. and other Indigenous-led nonprofits remain committed to our missions and our communities.

We invite you to be a part of our community by making a donation to support our transformative work. Currently, M.I.C. is fundraising to reach a $10k goal to purchase a pick-up truck. With over six Indigenous gardens across Long Island, this would greatly support our operations including transporting garden equipment, plants, and more. To make a donation, please follow the link in our bio or visit our website www.metoaccollective.org. Tabutne anaweyan💜

05/05/2026

🛑May 5th marks the National Awareness Day for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW).

🛑MMIW, an acronym that was created by Indigenous journalist Sheila North Wilson in 2012, is a movement that addresses the disproportionate rates of VIOLENCE, ABDUCTION, and MURDER of Indigenous women and girls in Canada, the United States, and other Indigenous communities globally. Other acronyms include MMIWG (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls), MMIP (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples), MMIWR (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives), and MMIW2G (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Two-Spirit, and Girls).

🛑This movement sheds light on the lack of media coverage and inconsistent data collection of these ongoing disappearances and murders. Part of the MMIW movement is a painted red hand symbol often placed over the mouth of activists and relatives. This symbol represents the unheard and silenced voices of MMIW victims and the silence of the media and law enforcement amidst this persistent crisis. In 2016, the National Crime Information Center stated that there were 5,712 reports of American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls, however, the US Department of Justice’s Federal Missing Persons Database only logged 116 cases. 10,248 Missing Indigenous persons reports were filed with the FBI in 2024, 95% of the cases identified received no mainstream media coverage.

🛑Here are some statistics:

84% of Indigenous women in the U.S. have experienced domestic violence in their lifetime.

Indigenous women in the U.S. are 2.5 times more likely to be murdered than non-Indigenous women.

Sexual assault rates among Indigenous women in the U.S. are 10 times higher than the national average.

Nationally, 40% of s*x trafficking victims identify as Native American, despite being about 3% of the U.S. population.

96% of s*xual assaults on AI/AN women were committed by non-Native men.

70% of perpetrators in MMIWG cases are non-Native.

🛑THIS IS AN EPIDEMIC! THIS IS A CRISIS!

🛑May 4th-8th 2026 is MMIWR National Week of Action. Educate yourself, honor the victims, and advocate for change✊

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04/22/2026

Every day is Earth day on Turtle Island🌎🌳🐢

As an Indigenous-led organization, M.I.C. honors and upholds the utmost reverence and responsibility to our sacred Mother Earth. Since time immemorial, she has provided all the necessary resources we need in order to survive and thrive. Food, water, shelter, and medicine all derive from her being. We acknowledge that we are not separate from our Mother, she is a part of who we are. Her love and bounty are unconditional. She provides not because we ask or demand it, but simply because it is her purpose.

On Earth Day, a day when we uplift the importance of our sacred Mother Earth, spend time considering how you honor your relationship and kinship. How will you protect her for all of our relatives and for future generations? What small steps could you take today to become a better steward?

Artwork: Mother Earth by Jackie Traverse

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