INDIGENOUS VISION (IV) is qualified nationwide to receive tax-deductible real estate and land as an approved IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
IV Cultural Conservation Land Stewardship Program (CCLSP) is an environmental cultural conservation program that works with private land owners, Tribal Nations, and municipalities interested in translating, conserving, protecting, or educating about their significant cultural sites and environment such as pictographs and petroglyphs, rock effigies, cairns, fasting shelters, medicine wheels, and tipi rings to provide unique land and historical conservation efforts as well as tribal community, youth and public learning opportunities.
Our conservation goals are to ensure that Indigenous people across the country have hassle-free access to bio-diverse landscapes and can harvest cultural necessities free of social and environmental worries. Our environmental stressor and contaminant mapping efforts ensure the land is free from abandoned mines, pollutions, and prion diseases like chronic wasting disease affecting deer, elk, and moose. We partner with leading organizations and institutions offering the latest in testing and monitoring (ecological monitoring conservation working dogs!) to ensure that cultural use materials harvested are contaminant free. Fun fact: dogs have been utilized in Blackfoot women work for 10,000 years!
Landowners have the option to 1) donate land to IV and receive a tax deduction in full of the fair market value or 2) donate partial/seasonal access – lease land to IV and receive a tax deduction on annual property taxes.
Tribal Nations utilize the Indigenous Vision environmental team to increase your departments capacity in community education and outreach, focus groups, white papers, or environmental project planning and implementation. Contract proceeds go to the IV General funds to support social and environmental justice programs
Municipalities partner with us to transform your cities riparian areas to cultural environmental learning spaces! Services include local tribal liaison services, remediation project planning, implementation, community education and outreach.
Corporate Sponsors are appreciated partners in this work! As a sponsor, your company and logo will be displayed and mentioned in all communications and on signs at the properties. Your partnership in grassroots, native-led initiatives ensures everyone has access to the land and the land is in the best shape to support wildlife and human activities!
Don’t own land to give? You can be a friend of IV and the land by helping to ensure its ability to support diverse plant and animal populations. Your monetary contribution helps implement Indigenous stewardship practices for the land already donated!
IV collaborates with local Indigenous communities and neighboring partners to provide cultural and environmental stewardship community activities on the land. The educational activities are centered around community engagement, intergenerational learning between elders and youth, and water.
Our Cultural Conservation initiatives: (Coming Soon)
Beaver Lodge Food Forest – The Beaver Lodge Food Forest is 24 acres of land on southern Onondaga territory in what is now known as Sullivan Country, NY. This land was donated to Indigenous Vision by Phyllis Rodriguez who is one of our Morning Star donors who contributed an additional $10,000.00 to the project’s success.
We’ve been sharing updates about the Beaver Lodge Food Forest through our newsletters over the past couple of years, but this month we have a very special webinar hosted by the lodge caretaker, Thaeaghoweñs Cook or Kenneth Cook who has been working on the land cultivating seed stock, planting trees, removing invasives and abandoned structures, monitoring water tables and environmental risk factors among many other important things. Kenneth is Onondaga and his ancestors have been living on the land for generations; the work he has been doing is incredibly important to not just IV but to him and his growing family. To make a tax deductible donation and support the Beaver Lodge Food Forest, click here.
Bear Gulch Visitor Center – The Bear Gulch Pictographs Visitor Center is ready for the 2026 hiking season! Book your pictographs tour and take in some of the stunning and powerful Blackfoot pictograph sites in Montana. Each tour is guided to ensure this significant site is preserved. This year we’re working on the external mural of the visitor center and can’t wait to share it’s progress with you. Check out our story from the official grand opening day from June, 2025!
Environmental Stressor and Contaminant Mapping Project
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