About
Nii'kinaaganaa. We are all related. The Nii’kinaagana Foundation is a non-profit that collects money and then distributes it to Indigenous-led groups and individuals supporting everything from grassroots organizing to cultural development to material needs. It has two streams, Pay Your Rent and Fireweed.
Pay Your Rent is a way for those who live on the occupied land of Indigenous peoples to give back. In June 2018 Patty Krawec raised $2000 for menstrual supplies to take on a trip to Iqaluit. That prompted a conversation with donors about doing something ongoing.
We have three board members: Patty Krawec, Terrill Tailfeathers, and Nora Loreto.
Patty Krawec is an Anishnaabe woman from Lac Seul First Nation, a podcaster on Medicine for the Resistance and Ambe. She lives in Niagara Falls, Ontario. You can find her on twitter @gindaanis and subscribe to her substack. Her first book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting Our Past and Reimagining Our Future was released by Broadleaf Books in September 2022.
Terrill Tailfeathers is a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy and has a long history of activism for his community. He was recently with the Tiny House Warriors in BC.
Nora Loreto is a writer and activist based in Quebec City. Born in Rainy River, ON and raised in Georgetown, she is of mixed settler English and Italian heritage: farmers from Thorndale and miners from Timmins. Nora works for the Canadian Association of Labour Media and is a freelance writer of both books and articles. Nora co-hosts the popular political podcast Sandy and Nora Talk Politics with Sandy Hudson.
Beadwork by Giniw Paradis. Follow him on Instagram