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

The Four Sisters Farmers Market is an Indigenous-focused farmers market that provides increased access to affordable, healthy, culturally appropriate local foods within the American Indian Cultural Corridor.
Food Sovereignty

Four Sisters Farm

Four Sisters Urban Farm brings the community together to improve healthy food access, and celebrate Indigenous heritage and culture. We seed opportunities to grow fresh and healthy food and heal land, bodies, and spirits.

Upcoming Events

  • Mar 19, 2026 | 1:00 PM–7:00 PMFour Sisters Urban Farm Sugar Bush Sap Boil – 2307 17th Ave. S.Looking to learn something sweet? Join us for the Four Sisters Urban Sugar Bush sap boil and winter sowing at East Phillips Park (2307 17th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404) on March 19th, from 1-7 pm. We’ll be boiling sap outside and starting seeds inside! We will be demonstrating the boiling process as well as […] Learn More

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News

Go to Art as Activism in Times of Urgency: A Reflection by Artist Courtney Cochran
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Art as Activism in Times of Urgency: A Reflection by Artist Courtney Cochran

As our organization has turned our building into a safe gathering place for community members to find supplies, services, and resources, we want to uplift the voices of our staff and community members who are helping our front-line observers. These are the voices of those striving to hold All My… Read More

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Following the Seasons to Resistance

For several months in Minneapolis, Native people have been on the frontlines in response to a surge in the presence of ICE and border patrol. Being under attack by the federal government is very familiar territory for us. Native Americans have borne the brunt of federal aggression for… Read More

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