Santa Fe Indigenous Center

Description: Since 2008, our organization has been conducting outreach to Indigenous residents of Santa Fe County to offer support services, build community connection, and gain data, and information about community needs. Each year we fill our calendar year with events including 24 food distributions, traditional skillset building classes, Indigenous Women and Men gatherings, our annual events Indigenous Community Day and our newest cultural event, the Honoring Native Nations Powwow on the Santa Fe Plaza. 

General organization information: Santa Fe Indigenous Center is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that serves Native Americans who reside in Santa Fe County, in New Mexico. 

Mission Statement: The Santa Fe Indigenous Center is designed by and for Indigenous Peoples with the mission of supporting, promoting, and enriching our vital, diverse community by identifying and serving the needs and interests of our people.

Programs: Our focus is to sustain cultural connection within Santa Fe County to assist in providing a healthy, stable, safe, equitable society for urban and rural Natives. Santa Fe Indigenous Center offers support services through 3 programs: Bi-weekly Food Distribution program, Emergency Financial Assistance program and our Cultural Revitalization program. Through our programs we are able to offer emergency financial support for rent and utilities, or family crisis. We also provide access to food and serve as a community resource connector through our free bi-weekly food distributions.  

Who you serve: Over a course of 17 years, we have established trust and loyalty within the Indigenous community of Santa Fe County, that includes 4-nearby Pueblos - Tesuque, Nambe, Pojoaque and San Ildefonso Pueblos. In the 2022 U.S. Census, it is reported that there are over 11,000 residents that reside here who identify as Native American. Through data collection by SFIC staff, we learned individuals are Navajo (Diné), Apache, Comanche, Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Osage, Choctaw, Tohono O’odham, Shoshone Bannock, Kiowa, Pawnee, Cherokee, Ponca, Oglala Lakota, Hopi, Alaskan Natives and tribal members from all 19 Pueblos.