The focus of Red Feather's American Indian Sustainable Housing Initiative is to educate Indian nations on straw bale building methods that will enable tribes to establish frameworks for long-term self-sufficiency.

Red Feather’s Focus on Indigenous Youth
We at Red Feather understand the importance of engaging youth in our American Indian Sustainable Housing Initiative as unsustainable development continues to spread over once open spaces eating up sparse resources and infringing upon hard won and lost Indian lands. Red Feather sees significance in indigenous student groups taking part in socially responsible, cross-cultural interaction, and in learning sensitive approaches to construction for their own villages. With Red Feather, students have the chance to take part in progressive home construction, while also understanding the positive impact of cross-cultural interaction and helping those that need it most. Through our experience in creating and completing volunteer home construction projects, Red Feather understands the importance of diverse cultures sharing their experiences, celebrating their heritages, and coming together to accomplish more than a direct service for a person in need. Such experiences break down barriers, increase self-confidence and bring about lasting social awareness, responsibility, and receptiveness to new and old ideas.

With committed and qualified staff, Red Feather is able to teach simple, practical and sustainable construction methods that can be adopted by Indian nations as a feasible, long-term housing and community development solution. Red Feather offers Building One House by Community Design Director Nathaniel Corum as another learning tool.

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