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Indigenous Cultures Institute

The Indigenous Cultures Institute reclaims Coahuiltecan identity, ancestral lands, and language while offering educational frameworks like the Xinachtli pedagogy to restore relational, land-centered ways of learning and living.

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"Land is everything, land is us": Exploring the connections between climate change, land, and health in Fort William First Nation

Drawing from interviews with Elders and knowledge holders in Fort William First Nation, this paper illustrates how climate change impacts health through land degradation while centering "All Our Relations" as a framework for wholistic healing and climate action.

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The Seven Circles

Chelsea Luger and Thosh Collins present an Indigenous-led framework for wholistic well-being, organizing health into seven interconnected circles—Movement, Land, Community, Ceremony, Sacred Space, Sleep, and Food—evaluated across spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional dimensions.

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Decolonizing Trauma Work

A transformative exploration of healing that centers Indigenous knowledge, critiques colonial clinical models, and offers a relational, wholistic pathway toward true restoration.

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Restoring the Kinship Worldview

A conversational journey through 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth and returning to a kinship way of being and seeing the world.

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