The Living Nation Institute: Research Division on Sovereignty
᯽Welcome to The Living Nation Institute
At The Living Nation Institute, we affirm that every culture holds the right to exist, evolve, and express itself in alignment with its ancestral memory, ecological wisdom, and sovereign truth. We do not engage from a lens of tolerance, inclusion, or reform. We engage from a place of remembrance, restoration, and return.
᯽Our Purpose
TLNI exists to support individuals, communities, and nations in reclaiming their sovereignty of body, land, lineage, and spirit. We do not assume that justice is granted through systems of power. We recognize that justice lives within the people who remember who they are.
᯽What We Stand For
Our work does not seek to assimilate. It seeks to amplify self-determination across diasporas, territories, and traditions. We stand with those who are:
◉ Reclaiming ancestral foodways, languages, and rituals ◉ Healing from colonization’s visible and invisible wounds ◉ Designing futures rooted in regenerative cultural intelligence
᯽Our Commitments
We welcome relationships, not tokenism. We pursue collaboration, not compliance. We prioritize: Dignity over diversity, Liberation over inclusion, Sovereignty over access
᯽A Declaration, Not a Defense
The Living Nation Institute is not a response to injustice. It is a resonant field of re-indigenized futures. A place where the right to exist is not defended, but declared.
PROGRAMS
Foundational Research and Ethnographic Study
3 Course
Foundational Research and Ethnographic Study is a course that trains students to conduct in-depth, qualitative research
FREE
Athletic Training Program Design
2 Course
Athletic Training Program Design is a course that teaches how to create structured, sport-specific training plans
National Wellness Systems
1 Course
National Wellness Systems is a course that explores how to design, implement, and manage large-scale wellness
International Consulting Architecture
1 Course
International Consulting Architecture is a course that teaches how to design, structure, and manage global consulting
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Foundational Research and Ethnographic Study
3 Course

Athletic Training Program Design
2 Course

National Wellness Systems
1 Course

International Consulting Architecture
1 Course
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᯽ Our Services
◉ Cultural Wellness Curriculum Development
◉ Elite Indigenous Athlete Training Systems
◉ Sovereign Systems Design for Health, Land, and Education
◉ Intergenerational Knowledge Transmission Programs
◉ Ancestral Governance Workshops & Experiential Retreats
᯽ Our Approach
Through: Experiential learning, Embodied leadership, Ancestral partnership, We help restore what colonization attempted to erase: Dignity. Continuity. Wholeness. We sit with elders. We listen to oral histories. We walk the land. We learn the rhythms of ancestral tradition. And from that reverence, we build programs that are not only effective
They are culturally alive.
᯽ Our Guiding Principle
Every TLNI offering is anchored in one core truth: Participants are not clients; they are sovereign individuals of a sovereign culture. We do not teach people who they are. We support the reclamation of what has always been theirs. This is not education for inclusion. This is restoration for liberation. We do not create programs for people. We co-create with people, in service to the Living Nation they already are.
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