Native American Community Development Institute - NACDI

"We aren’t merciless, we are relentless," Native Organizers Alliance's Judith Leblanc says about the American Indian people, who have kept our communities strong throughout generations of systemic injustices. Whether facing genocidal practices, violations of treaties, or immigration crack downs, Judith acknowledges the hard work of keeping communities together in her article "A Love Letter to the Merciless Indian Savage."

She also gives NACDI and Pow Wow Grounds a shout out!

Read here: https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/a-love-letter-to-the-merciless-indian-savage/

👩‍🎨 Stop by the Four Sisters Farmers Market this Thursday from 11 am - 3 pm to welcome our 2026 artist-in-residence Sydney Ockenga (). Sydney will be hosting free art activities on the third Thursdays at the market this season, kicking off on June 18th, for a garden rock painting activity

🍓🌝 Celebrate the Strawberry Moon by creating your own berry decoys! Gardeners will sometimes paint rocks and place them in their strawberry beds to deter birds and other wildlife from feasting on ripe berries before they’re picked. Help us “plant” our own “strawberries” around the Four Sisters Market, or maybe even create a decoy of our bug friends we see in the garden. 🪲

🎨 All season-long, Sydney will be working to design visual imagery and create community art activities which relate and promote the Four Sisters Farmers Market mission and vision — strengthening Native plant knowledge, food access and sovereignty, and knowledge sharing of healthy food, plant knowledge, recipes, and preservation.

🔗 For more on the artist and the All My Relations Arts + Four Sisters Farmers Market Artist-in-Residency program visit allmyrelationsarts.org.