Indigenous Wellness for the Next Seven Generations
Wellness is collective, but also generational. We are all interdependent with each other and with the land with which we live, but often are not afford opportunities to generatively and healthily nurture the deep community we need to be well.
Our flagship program is the Rez Girls Wellness Retreat, bringing together cohorts of young Nevada Native women together to build fruitful community during summer camps grounded in culture. We also run the Chief Good Day Camp and Good Relative Network, which began in 2020 with the founding of the organization.
Wellness Retreats for Native Youth
Since 2022, each year, we have invited young Native women and girls from across the state of Nevada to participate in cohorts oriented around wellness and community: Rez Girls Wellness Retreat. We work along with women wellness practitioners to facilitate Native girls' own self-actualization in mind-body-spirit wellness, healing, and self-care, to build a foundation for long-term resilience and confidence.
In 2025, our program was so in demand within Tribal communities that participation slots for the Rez Girls Wellness Retreat filled within thirty minutes of announcement.
The Good Relative Network
In 2020, we launched the Good Relative Network to connect socially-isolated members of our communities in virtual wellness spaces conducted weekly.
This iteration of the Good Relative Network brought together community members several hours away from one another into close, intimate conversations about dealing with the state of the world and holding space for one another grounded in Indigenous thought.
WHAT MAKES INDIGENOUS WELLNESS DIFFERENT
The Individual
The People
The Ancestors
We come from Tribal communities. Our objective is to benefit our respective Nations, our sovereignty, and our unique cultures, customs, languages, and connections to our ancestors' land. We do our best to honor our heritage, ways of life, and the lives we were born into that we didn't choose. We celebrate all parts of ourselves to do the best possible work. We live and die by our communities.
That's our way.
We recognize that we all come from different people and different lands. We get what we can't get from our living relatives from the ones on the other side. We ask the Spirits to teach us how to live in a good way. We comprehend the complex struggles of those who came before us and to be mindful of our differences. We do not maintain a right way or wrong way philosophy regarding the work or relationships that need to be made.
We are all interdependent.
We believe that the spirits of our ancestors guide us on our paths. We also believe that we will be on the other side directing our descendants one day. We do service now for the now and the after.. With every hopeful step forward, we know that we are changing the paths for the ones who are coming. In our efforts, we practice empathy and compassion the way we imagine our oldest relatives existed during their time.
We look back to look forward.
We love to make new relatives
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We are excited to be a part of the next evolution of Tribal identity, wellness, community, and prosperity.
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WE’RE ALWAYS LOOK FOR NEW AND EXCITING WAYS TO UPLIFT NATIVE NEVADA.
So much of the work is done in the creative space and then made tangible for our communities.
We can’t wait to meet you. Let’s see what we can do together!
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Tribal Minds, Inc. based?
Where do you operate?
We are a statewide Native-led nonprofit that aims to empower Tribal spaces in rural and urban Nevada. Our focus is on remote Indian reservations that often get overlooked and underfunded. We have strong alliances with Nevada's Tribes, organizers, and other in-state leaders that work to bring attention to the Tribal needs of the Great Basin. Beyond Nevada, we have built relationships with institutions across the country and beyond - particularly through cultural programming with Lenca relatives in Honduras.
Tribal Minds, Inc. originated on the Hungry Valley Indian Reservation, a Tribal Community of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony. Currently, we are based in Reno, Nevada as we serve Tribal communities across the state. We understand Reno to be a center where Tribal people across the Great Basin work, live, find community, and find each other.
What organizations or institutions are you willing to work with?
Who do you provide services to?
Tribal Minds is willing and eager to work with all organizations that energetically align with our purpose of developing Native solutions for Native issues and the infrastructure to support that. We wish to build relationships that are prosperous and healthy and center the People and the Land.
At Tribal Minds, we prioritize and center the most oppressed in Tribal communities through intentional outreach beyond just the urban core. We regularly run programming in both rural and remote areas of Nevada. We also place a strong emphasis on working together in coalition with other BIPOC-led organizations workng towards liberation.
