Executive Summary

The heart of Indigenous identity is our unique cultures. For Indigenous peoples to survive, our cultures must not only survive, but find new ways to thrive. A Native-led organization, MICA Group is trusted to offer new frameworks, ideas, and resources to support Native communities' work in reclaiming their cultural sovereignty. The Nations, communities, and families we serve are strong, determined, resilient--and also isolated, under-resourced, and faced with persistent inequities, making it difficult for them to solve their problems alone.

For two decades, MICA has built relationships and credibility with over 300 tribal communities. Our founders, Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller, Otoe-Missouria Chairman Della Warrior (MICA's CEO), and Dr. Valorie Johnson (Seneca-Cayuga/Eastern Cherokee)(Board Vice Chair), created MICA as a vehicle to bring the skills and contacts they had gained nationally home to tribal communities. Board member Rick West, Cheyenne Peace Chief and founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and Board Chair Walter Echo-Hawk, long-time attorney at the Native American Rights Fund and past president of the Pawnee Nation have, like our founders, led their communities and excelled on a national level.

MICA has raised over $60 million for tribal cultural sovereignty--supporting communities' work in revitalizing 73 Tribal languages, protecting 52 sacred sites, restoring 47 traditional cultural practices, and bringing broadband internet to two entire reservations, at no charge to tribal communities.

The "MICA difference"--world-class resources, enduring connection to tribal communities, and hands-on support--has resulted in a 94% project success rate.

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