The Cultural Conservancy

We are The Cultural Conservancy, a Native-led organization founded in 1985. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, our headquarters is on unceded Ohlone land and our land base in the sovereign territories of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo peoples. We work with Indigenous communities throughout Turtle Island and Abya Yala (the Americas) and Moananuiākea (the Pacific). Our Mission is to protect and restore Indigenous cultures, empowering them in the direct application of traditional knowledge and practices on their ancestral lands.

Multi-generational disruption of Indigenous knowledge and land-based practices has impacted the foundation of sacred understanding from which Native American people relate to their ancestral lands, waters, plants, and foods. Your support helps us to mend the broken circle of these Native lifeways and create access and opportunities for Native communities.

Your support helps us to carry out our many programs that benefit Native communities, including:

• Native nutrition & cooking classes
• Growing produce for Native health centers
• Youth mentorship in our youth programs
• Transporting urban youth to Native farm classes
• Online courses for our international Indigenous partners
• Native youth foodways internships
• Transcribing elders' recorded stories