The Sierra Fund is now doing business as: Indigenous Futures Society!

Igniting Indigenous Guardianship in the Sierra Nevada

Welcome

Hunga meh’heši’

Wašiw Washoe

Michəksəsəə

Southern Sierra Miwuk

Homáakani?

Nisenan

Manahuu

Northern Pauite

Séekas’in

Nisenan

The Indigenous Futures Society's mission is to elevate Indigenous place-based wisdom, leadership, and guardianship to achieve reparative justice and resilient Sierra Nevada cultural ecologies and communities for future generations.

Our Roots

We envision a future where: 

All people respect Indigenous cultural ecologies of the Sierra Nevada.

Indigenous voices, leadership, and knowledge are centered in the movement to restore resiliency to our environment and communities.

Rights of Nature are honored, and everyone understands their inherent caretaking responsibility to be a guardian.

Indigenous peoples restore and protect the land through practices that have sustained the region for generations.

All of our relations (humans and more than humans) are given equal voice.

Women’s voices as cultural keepers are centered.

All peoples learn from the land, creating intergenerational cultural wisdom.

Programs

Land and Water
Guardians

Applying our deep understanding of the natural world to heal the land and ensure its vitality for future generations.

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Emergency Preparedness and Climate Adaption

Where Fire Meets Knowledge: Tribal-Driven Climate Resilience Rooted in Emergency Infrastructure, Climate Science, and Cultural Wisdom.

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Cultural Ecologies

Preserving a worldview that sees the earth as a living entity, not just for its benefits to humans but for its own sake and for the 
benefit of all life.

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Sierra Nevada
Tribal Summit

Re-imagining Indigenous Futures in the Sierra Nevada.

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Our Latest Stories

Get to know our Nation Builders Council – Introducing Sadie Hampshire!

September 12, 2025

IFS is still looking for 18-30 year old Sierra Nevada Indigenous young adults to join the "Nation Builders" cohort at...

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Introducing Indigenous Futures Society 

May 15, 2025

We are proud to share that, as of May 2025, The Sierra Fund is now Indigenous Futures Society. A name...

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Big News! The Sierra Fund Welcomes Matthew Moore (Nisenan-Washoe) as Program Executive

January 23, 2025

We are thrilled to announce that Matthew Moore, a distinguished member of the Nisenan and Washoe communities, has joined The Sierra Fund...

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The Indigenous Futures Society Newsletter features regular updates on our work, pertinent issues for the Sierra, and ways you can take action to restore ecosystem and community resiliency to the Sierra Nevada region. 

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