sankofa roots

workshops & trainings

We offer day-long and overnight outdoor preparedness and earth-skills trainings.

In our courses, we teach basic camping skills like tent set-up, fire making, and outdoor cooking, as well as life-long survival skills like natural shelter building, navigation, signaling, rope-making, locating and filtering water sources, fishing, traditional basket-weaving, wild food foraging, and using wild plants for making crafts and medicine. We also teach cultural remembrance, rooted in the reclamation and preservation of African, Indigenous and Queer foods, cultures and practices.

cultural organizing

Cultural organizing is a cornerstone of our work. We understand the negative social-emotional impact of cultural severance and erasure, and we seek to heal that through our programming. We support program participants to reclaim the foods, songs, practices and lifeways of those in their ancestral lineages that have been lost over generations.

In every training, we ground ourselves in the wisdom and practices of those in our ancestral lineages, and explore various land-based and spiritual technologies for our collective survival and healing. We open and close our courses in ceremony; we use Indigenous technologies to guide our learning; we honor the elements and our ancestors through ritual; we prepare and eat foods that re-hydrate our memories and imaginations from our lineages, and we make and dance to music that heals us from the inside out.

land liberation

As an Afro-Indigenous led organization, we understand that there is no liberation without liberating the land. We are currently raising funds to financially secure land, to co-steward in partnership with local tribes and land trusts, so that we’d have a home-base to host our trainings and store our equipment. We also plan to offer this land to other local Black and Indigenous community members as a safe, natural space to host community events, ceremonies, retreats, and learning and healing circles. 

By supporting this initiative, you become part of the mycelial network that will nurture and restore natural spaces, and build an accessible and inclusive refuge for all of our multi-species kin. You would also be contributing to the rematriation of Indigenous land, and to creating safe natural spaces for Black, Indigenous and Queer folks to learn and heal through earth-based ancestral skills training. Make a donation to support our land liberation fundraiser.