Sacred Tree of Life has been conducting ceremony across the country while building an Indigenous-led nonprofit around language teaching, traditional agriculture, and the sacred relationship with the horse.
Sacred Tree of Life is built on ancestral values and traditional practices. We are working to revitalize Indigenous culture and community through traditional knowledge — passed down, taught forward, and kept alive through practice.
Our work is plain. We are returning land to Indigenous stewardship, teaching Indigenous languages to younger generations, cultivating traditional medicines and foods, and caring for rescued wild mustangs. Ceremony is the practice that ties the rest of it together.
The mission pillars that organize this work — cultural revitalization, restorative justice, land stewardship, equal accessibility, holistic community health — are five views of one practice.
The practices and ceremonies our ancestors carried.
Teaching Lakota language to younger generations so the words of our ancestors stay alive.
Caring for the land as kin.
Removing barriers between community and the knowledge that is theirs to begin with.
An integrated approach to wellbeing rooted in traditional practice.
The stones, the trees, the sky, the water, the animals, the people — all of them are the Indigenous peoples with whom we live and work. This is what we mean when we say, "All my relations."
We run four programs: ceremony, Indigenous language teaching, traditional agriculture, and the wild mustang sanctuary. They overlap heavily in practice — most weeks, the same people are working on two or three of them.
Regular ceremonial practice, guided by Indigenous knowledge keepers and open to community. Sweat lodge, prayer, and the cycle of seasonal ceremony, held on land we steward.
Practice with us →We teach Indigenous language as a living practice rather than as academic study. Vocabulary is taught alongside the relationships and protocols the words exist to name.
Learn the language →Traditional agriculture and foods as our ancestors practiced it. All non-GMO, all from traditional strains. We cultivate sacred medicines — sweetgrass, sage, tobacco, cedar — and traditional foods like choke cherry, sweet corn, and the crops that belong to this region.
Visit the farm →We rescue wild mustangs from federal roundups and provide them lifelong care. The herd is also the foundation for Indigenous-led equine therapy work serving Native youth, elders, and community.
Meet the herd →We are raising funds to acquire roughly 40 acres in the Tehachapi / Twin Oaks region of California — for permanent ceremonial use, expanded Indigifarms operations, and a permanent home for our mustang herd.
The acquisition will be governed by Indigenous protocols and protected by a conservation easement that prevents resale or development. The land will stay in Indigenous hands.
Sacred Tree of Life does not relate to land as property. The work is to bring more land into Indigenous stewardship and to keep what we hold from being treated as a tradeable asset.
Ceremony is the practice that holds the rest of our work in place. Language teaching, the medicines, the time with the herd — none of it is separate from ceremony in how we organize our day.
The horse has been part of our peoples' work for many generations. We rescue mustangs because the alternative is slaughter. The herd is now part of our community, and the work with them is part of how we heal.
Your gift supports ceremony, Indigenous language teaching, traditional agriculture, the lifelong care of rescued mustangs, and the campaign to bring 40 acres of California land into permanent Indigenous stewardship. Sacred Tree of Life is a 501(c)(3); your contribution is tax-deductible.
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