Indigenous Medicine Foundation

07/28/2022

“Learn to have an unsticky mind… don’t hang on to grievances …⁣
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It’s sort of like people swimming in the river…if you swim against it, you’re still going to be carried along by it…but if you swim with it, you have the whole power & the river is yours”⁣
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~ Thomas Smittle Ten Fingers

07/25/2022

Thomas Smittle Ten Fingers on his Ranch in Caliente, California. Thomas is a driving force behind the Foundation and is featured in the major motion picture, The Mustang.

08/03/2021

Billy Mills - a unifying force!

Billy Mills is a Native America, a U.S. Marine, and an Olympic gold medalist. Mills is now able to look back on his performance in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics as a message of perseverance and global unity.

07/05/2021

We are proud to be supporting this totem pole journey and the Lummi totem pole carver Jewell Praying Wolf James, Doug James, Phreddie Lane, and more as they journey across the United States, on a mission to protect sacred sites and honor our new Secretary of the Interior. Deb Haaland.

A 24-foot-tall totem pole will travel thousands of miles from Washington state to the nation's capital to raise awareness of Native American issues and sacred sites.

07/05/2021

Indigenous People's way of life, their land, traditions, continue to be encroached upon to this day.

Drug tourists, mining companies and farming encroachment are threatening the Wixárika people’s annual hunt for the psychedelic plant in the Mexican desert.

04/19/2021

https://youtu.be/d0WDvG7xX6I We are so excited to be working with Janae Million and the Kiowaá tribe in Brazil to help preserve their ancient plant medicine knowledge. Please listen in to her interview this afternoon at 3:00 pm PST!

04/11/2021

The organizing power of Ecuadors Indigenous People resulted in stunning election results!

Its candidate didn’t reach Sunday’s presidential runoff, but the party’s powerful showing in the first round of voting has transformed the national agenda.

12/24/2020

Time for some good storytelling 💥❤️

Famed filmmaker Taika Waititi has teamed up with Indigenous writer and director Sterlin Harjo for the creation of a comedy series titled “Reservation Dogs.”