Loving Service
Addressing Health Inequities through Loving Service with Indigenous Youth and Communities
Land Acknowledgement
Native Health Initiative acknowledges the original peoples of the land on which we live, work and serve: the Tiwa people of Sandia and Isleta Pueblos. We also recognize New Mexico’s 23 federally recognized Native Nations, historic Indigenous communities in New Mexico, Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and those who were forcibly removed from their homelands. In offering this land acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty, history and experiences.
Our Focus
Our Movement as Medicine focus area provides a loving and supportive community in which participants experience the physical, cultural, mental and spiritual aspects of running and walking. Our Movement as Medicine focus area has two main programs – Running Medicine and Sports Warriors.
From the start of NHI in 2005 and continuing to today, building youth leaders and serving youth communities has been at the core of our work. What started in 2005 as a group of summer interns wanting to learn more about health issues facing Indigenous communities has grown into three programs that serve and shape our youth leaders – Healers of Tomorrow, Internships and our Education is Ceremony Scholarship.
Indigenizing Wellness is our focus area that encompasses a wide ranging set of programs and projects. We use this focus area to grow our impact in the community through short-term projects (let’s paint a mural or sponsor an Indigenous hip-hop event!) and longer-term programs. This focus area includes Breathe Tradition, Not Addiction, Másaní’s Massage, and Community Asset Mapping.
Corporate Partners
Community Partners
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