Mission

To create educational opportunities to learn about indigenous cultures from verified, qualified members of those cultures; to create opportunities for those cultures to teach, preserve, and perpetuate their traditions, values, and skills, as well as implementing new skills that increase the ability of those cultures to achieve self-determination; to create opportunities for mutual respect, understanding, and friendship through cross-cultural exchanges that address and begin the process of changing attitudes, awareness, and culturally, historically accurate representation of those cultures in the eyes of the dominant society.

Vision

WKI believes racism is based on the absence and suppression of culturally accurate knowledge and understanding, compounded by perpetuation of myths and stereotypes, and that racism has severely impacted the ability of indigenous cultures to realize their legal right to sovereignty and self-determination. WKI's vision is to become the leading educational organization in creating a society that is not bound by skin color, culture, religion, or gender, but by values and accomplishments judged by knowledge and understanding.

Legal Information

Wisdom Keepers, Inc., is chartered in the State of Tennessee, and has been given 501-c-3 status by the Internal Revenue Service. Financial information including a copy of our annual Form 990 is available at GuideStar.org.

Participating in WKI

Wisdom Keepers, Inc., is not a member-based organization. We do offer supporting memberships for individuals, families, businesses, tribes, and other non-profit organizations. Membership fees help us support our existing and new projects.

Additionally, Wisdom Keepers, Inc., has volunteer opportunities. For more information on current volunteer positions available with WKI, please visit the following service of your choice:

Volunteermatch.org

Idealist.org

Donations

We make every attempt to provide our resources and activities at no cost or, at most, the lowest possible cost. At WKI, we do not spend our money on "administration." We are volunteer-driven with no permanent paid staff. We operate in a virtual environment to avoid the cost of an office and its related expenses. Unfortunately, there are still costs involved in producing our resources and activities. To cover those unavoidable expenses, we rely on one-time donations, supporting memberships, and gift-in-kind contributions of materials, equipment and services.

One-time donations can be made at any of the following services:

Gift-In-Kind Donations :

For information on our materials, equipment, and service needs, please visit our wish list!