In June 2026, we welcomed Tiyospaye Winyan Maka — "Extended Family of Women of the Earth" in the Lakota language — for the second year of our Groundwork Residency. Founded and led by Christinia Eala American Horse, the organization has spent more than four decades uplifting Indigenous families through interconnected work: housing on Tribal lands, healing from intergenerational trauma, food and cultural sovereignty, land reclamation, and prison reform.
Over three evenings open to the public, the residency wove together conversation, story, and prophecy. Dr. Vivian Delgado, author of the first four-year Indigenous Studies degree program in the United States, joined Christinia to explore the Buffalo Treaty and the living work of restoring bison to Indigenous lands. A recorded conversation with Jasper Young Bear, wisdom keeper and storyteller of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, opened space to reflect on prophecy and what it means to become a worthy ancestor. And Christinia closed the residency with stories from her decades of work, from joining Standing Rock Water Protectors to traveling to stand in solidarity with Zapatistas in Chiapas, woven together with traditional Lakota teachings on the sacred covenants that bind all nations to the care of this earth.
We are grateful to Christinia, Dr. Delgado, and everyone who gathered with us.
