Helping Native people create the future they envision.

NACDI’s work is founded on the belief that all American Indian people have a place, purpose, and a future strengthened by sustainable asset-based community development. Since 2007, NACDI’s work facilitates systems change through our integrated pathways of Community Engagement, Community Organizing, Community Development, and Indigenous Arts and Culture.

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Focus Areas

NACDI’s key projects include: All My Relations Arts, Four Sisters Farmers Market and Urban Farm, and Make Voting A Tradition (MVAT). NACDI is building a vibrant future for all of our relations.

Arts & Culture

All My Relations Arts

All My Relations Arts presents four exhibits throughout the year, as well as hosting tours, presentations, and programs like the Native Authors Program, Consulting Projects and We Are Still Here Cohort.
Civic Engagement

Make Voting A Tradition

Make Voting A Tradition (MVAT) is a culturally specific, year-round, multi-generational approach to increase voter turnout and civic engagement now in its eighth year of operation.
Food Sovereignty

Four Sister's Market

Four Sisters works to restore health and well-being in the Urban Indian and Phillips communities by recovering knowledge and access to Indigenous food, medicine, and traditions through our Farmers Market and Urban Farm.
Community Engagement

Cultural Corridor

NACDI works in the densest Urban Indian population in the country. Our programs are contributing to the health and vitality for American Indian people by advancing equitable opportunities and promoting racial equity and inclusion.

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News

Go to MPR: Native communities keep maple syrup traditions going, even in urban areas
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MPR: Native communities keep maple syrup traditions going, even in urban areas

In south Minneapolis, the sound of cars driving by is like white noise. Blue bags hang from maple trees that line the sides of city streets. The Native American Community Development Institute, or NACDI, has been busy collecting sap from neighborhood trees in recent weeks for the purpose of sugar… Read More

Go to Staff Highlights: Angel Swann
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Staff Highlights: Angel Swann

Describe yourself in one sentence. Strong and resilient, determined and hardworking, a loving mother and partner. What is one thing in your professional history that you are proud of? I am proud of myself for getting my Masters Degree. At one point I didn’t want to finish my high school… Read More

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All My Relations Arts Gallery Presents

Smart Wars by Rory Wakemup

Smart Wars is a flip-the-script, satirical exhibition featuring works that assert Native identity, resilience, resistance, and coexistence with our planet from multimedia artist Rory Wakemup. A continuation of his series, Divest or Die, Wakemup’s work is a tongue-in-cheek exploration of culture vs controversy through sculpture and installation. His exquisitely designed outfits are meant to subvert and amuse while tackling social, political, and climate issues. Infusing traditional methods and materials, Wakemup’s regalia is designed for 21st-century Indian warriors in the battle to reawaken Indigenous ancestry on planet Earth.

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