The Indigenous Futures Survey, the largest survey of Native peoples ever conducted, represents a precedent-setting new chapter in Native-led research and organizing to dismantle systemic racism and build power for Native peoples. More than 6,400 Native adults from 401 Tribes and all 50 U.S. states participated in the survey. The results offer compelling new insights into the systemic challenges, issue priorities, and experiences of Native peoples, providing a platform to advocate for change. This session will share the groundbreaking approach and results of this research, its policy and systems change implications, and the critical need for narrative and culture change to ‘close the distance’ between the non-Native public and Native peoples.
This session was curated in partnership with Illuminative.
Professor of Psychology, Regents of the University of Michigan
Stephanie A. Fryberg is the University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Research for Indigenous Social Action and Equity Center at the University of Michigan. Her primary research focuses on how social representations of race, culture, and social class…
Executive Director, Center for Native American Youth
Nikki Santos is executive director of the Center for Native American Youth. . She is an enrolled citizen of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. As executive director, Nikki is responsible for visioning, managing staff, and fund raising. Her biggest inspiration comes from her daughter and nieces and nephews.
Judith is a citizen of the Caddo Nation and director of the Native Organizers Alliance (NOA), a national Native training and organizing network. NOA works with tribes, traditional societies, and grassroots community groups in Native urban and tribal communities.
At the core of her work is the belief that…
Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee) is the founder and CEO, of the only national Native-led organization focused on changing the narrative about Native peoples on a mass scale. IllumiNative has been instrumental in advancing representation of contemporary Native peoples in key sectors of…
