Indigenous Commons

A GrandMothering Shield for Planet Earth

Walk with us as

Hearth Keepers

Hold warmth and safety at the center of the movement.

Guardians

Bearers of ancestral knowledge, builders at the margins

Water Carriers

Resource the protection and nurturance of life.

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 continents, watersheds, and languages, Indigenous communities are organizing an ancient future economy.

Along with leading finance innovators and technologists, Indigenous Commons is co-designing a living financial system that works for all of us. At the heart of this system are KinHubs: biocultural movements that restore neglected connections between 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 living nodes of the GrandMothering Economy — places where ancestral lifeways meet regenerative design, and value flows through creativity, nurturance, and protection.

If you are tired of the absurd narratives and endless cycles of frustration experienced into today’s profit-first, burnout economy, consider your role in a movement where life is value and connection is wealth.

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