About Us
The Medicine Lodge Confederacy (MLC) is a non-profit 501c3 organization founded in 2009. It was founded by a group of Native Americans who are predominantly members of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara (MHA) Nation and who are experienced professionals and scholars from many different backgrounds and disciplines.
Our Mission
The Medicine Lodge Confederacy will provide opportunities to build indigenous cultural and spiritual knowledge, awareness, and infrastructure for all generations through the sacred medicine teachings of Mother Corn that connects us to our Creator and the divine universe.
Our Vision
Through prayer, unity, commitment, and love for the Creator, we will achieve wellness in mind, body, spirit, community and environment.
Projects
Language Community
The MLC has developed a language community called “Strikes The Enemy”. They consist of parents and grandparents working together as a community to become fluent in Arikara and teach their children. They are all committed to learning the language while learning
Research Project
During the spring semester of 2016, three members of the MLC joined a collaborative effort, USDA funded, study between NHSC College and SDSU to observe, data collect, and identify native pollinators presents, timing and preferences comparatively of native juneberry and cultivated
Running Wolf Cultural Survival Running School
Running Wolf Cultural Survival School was created by the Medicine Lodge Confederacy (MLC) in order to teach the Arikara world view, epistemology, and to revitalize the Arikara Language. The Running Wolf Cultural Survival School is built on the Running Wolf Ranch
Medicine Lodge Confederacy Buffalo Project
The Arikara Creation Story starts from the beginning of the universe then continues through to the migration of the Arikara people from South America to present day North Dakota. The Arikara followed the voice of Mother Corn, which is the female
Board
Susan Paulson
President
Deborah Painte
Vice President
Sonya Abe
Secretary
Fawn Packineau
Treasurer