Work in Solidarity with Nihi K'é Baa'

Nihi Ké’ Baa’ is designing and building an off-grid community hub on Diné Bikeyah (Navajo Nation) comprised of two sustainable structures constructed using site-appropriate alternative building materials; a multi-use building with kitchen and meeting spaces; and a ceremonial hogan. The project will bring experienced workshop leaders to actively engage community members, organizers, and builders in participatory workshop-builds to share knowledge and develop local, traditional skills in sustainable homebuilding. The hub will act as the pilot project to form a traditional hogan-building society. At every stage of its creation the community will be invited to come, learn, share feedback, and pass on the knowledge to keep sacred traditions vibrant and present.

Once complete, this hub (located near Window Rock) will be a source of nurturing and support and a space for collective visioning, planning, education,practice, and ceremony. A resilience hub for times of crisis, it will provide a sustainable solution to the urgent infrastructure needs of mutual aid networks, including spaces for ceremony, a communal garden for traditional food growing, and continued soil remediation. It will house and make accessible various resources that Nihi Ké’ Baa’ has gathered, including a complete mobile kitchen from an Indigenous-led camp at Standing Rock; art, printing, and direct action supplies; an apothecary; and a seed bank.