Indigenous Commons

A GrandMothering Shield for Planet Earth

Rituals of Renewal

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Rituals of Renewal ~:__~

A Four Part Online Gathering

Our era of systemic collapse is also a time of possibility. How do we reclaim abundance when food, medicine, and belonging feel out of reach—though they are all around us? This four-part series introduces a kinship-centered approach to economic futures, drawing on Indigenous knowledge systems that have sustained communities for millennia. Led by Indigenous leaders and practitioners, we will explore the shift from transaction to relation, scarcity to abundance, and isolation to thriving together. Designed for those curious about regenerative finance and systemic transformation, this journey offers practical insights into how imagination, grief, and kinship can reshape the foundations of economy itself.

Walk with us as

KinMakers

ReMember and light an ancestral hearth to serve all life. Return to relationship with all life.

Guardians

Bearers of ancestral knowledge, builders at the margins, creating a shield for our planet.

GiftMakers

Nourish the most fragile ecosystems and co-create life affirming innovations.

Weaving the GrandMothering Shield

Watch the video to hear Guardians and KinMakers share their intimacy with an ancient maternal life force, the GrandMothering Economy. Hear their explanation for why Indigenous Commons is needed now, and how it is already transforming lives, ecosystems, and the very meaning of prosperity.

Indigenous peoples make up just 6% of the world’s population, yet we tenure the lands where 80% of Earth’s remaining biodiversity thrives. Our lives are interwoven with the natural systems of the Earth — as all ancestors’ once were.

A Great ReMembering

Across watersheds and oceans Indigenous communities have protected the remnants of an economy that supports life. Indigenous Commons is a movement of Indigenous communities and organizations for a life-affirming economy.

A collective of Indigenous Guardians - rooted deeply in ancient bio-economies - are meeting with with finance innovators and technologists to co-design a living financial system for all of us. KinHubs: biocultural movements that restore the the value-creating capacity of land, life and culture.

From Uganda’s Lake Victoria to Nigeria’s Niger Delta, from Ecuador’s Andes–Amazon corridor to Aotearoa’s Bay of Plenty, and across the Eastern Woodlands of Turtle Island, KinHubs are emerging as one GrandMothering Economy — where caring ancestral lifeways meet regenerative design, and value flows through creativity, nurturance, and protection.

A STREAM of Water to Life

Over the next three months, Indigenous Commons is raising $5 million to launch the GrandMothering Shield for Planet Earth — a global network of Indigenous-led communities, called KinHubs, and the systems that connect and support them in restoring life and balance to our world. Investment Design

Hearth Keepers already know who you are. You have begun to build this new world with us, at a pace that you set. By contributing, you’re not donating to isolated projects. You are part of the new world, and by joining with us you activate a structural shift toward a distributed, Indigenous-informed financial architecture to regenerate ecosystems, nourish communities, and broaden how value moves in the world.

GrandMothering, from an Elder Guardian

Dear Kin:

We human beings are a mothering species. In taking lands and waters to colonize, we also took mothers and children to be owned. These children became the next fathers, brothers, uncles—and upon these heartbroken generations raised in scarcity and separation, our kinship worldview was lost.

As we removed ourselves from our original mother’s wisdom—our Mother Earth—we withdrew from kinship with beyond-human life. We discarded and desacralized the wisdom, intuition, and guidance of mothers and grandmothers.

Now Mother Earth is beckoning us to return. We ask: what would it look like to live in matricultural practice—placing heart intelligence at the center of how we govern and give? What if we re-learned how to love like a mother: unconditionally, radically, and protectively?

This is our birthright and our work: to steward from love, to protect life with fierce generosity, and to remember our ancestral future.

Indigenous Commons’ GrandMothering Movement is not only spiritual but structural—guiding how we create power with our brothers, fathers, and grandfathers in service of love and life.

Skeena Rathor Kashmiri,

Elder Guardian of Indigenous Commons