Reconnect To Your Indigenous Roots

You Belong.

It is our hearts that push us to reconnect to our roots because we are humans who want to belong. We are searchers, looking deeper than the labels like Latin, Mestiza, or Hispanic left behind by colonization. We are the stolen children and their descendants who long to reconnect to our Indigenous heritage.

Native elders teach us that all of our children are all of our children. Meaning that if we have even one drop of Native blood in us, we are Native. No one can take that away from us, ever. Reclaiming Indigeneity was created to spread the teachings of how to reconnect to our Indigeneity, even when it feels impossible.

Join our intro class online to learn about the coming home framework that guides you as you reconnect to your Indigenous roots.

 

Becoming Accountable Community Members

Greed, fear, isolation, competition, ego, rugged individualism, and arrogance were acceptable behaviors in the capitalist system most of us were raised in instead of our Native tribes and Indigenous nations. It is only from a place of rigorous honesty and heartfelt communal safety that we can do the work to unlearn these behaviors so that we can reconnect to our Indigenous roots.

Our work is to cultivate our ability to be silent, to listen, and be humble. To be aware of our own emotions and behaviors so that if they need correcting, we do it right away, and see it as a kindness not a criticism. To shift our attention towards our connection to the beauty of the world. To be grateful for all of creation.

Join our intro class online to learn about the coming home framework that guides you as you reconnect to your Indigenous roots.

 

Coming Home Work: A Clarifying Framework

Coming home work is the framework that allows us to reconnect to our Indigenous roots. Each of us is on our own journey, but we need a map to get where the universe wants us to be: home. Together we can do the work to become resilient, generous, and responsible community members who can add strength in belonging, or allyship in supporting our Native nations of origin. We get to decide who we are, and be hopeful about the future.

Each of us has to do the work of traveling a unique and different journey home with joy, humility, and an open heart. One of the biggest lessons that we all need to unlearn is the capitalist belief that because something is in our blood that we are entitled to just take it. This is one of many behavior patterns that we must change in order to honor the precious gift of belonging when it is being offered to us. Coming home work guides us through this process.

Want to know more about where you fit? Take our online classes.

What We Do

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Perspective

Many of us who were raised in Hispanic, Chicano/a/x or Latino/a/e/x culture have always known that we have Native/Indigenous heritage. But we don’t necessarily know what to do about it, if anything. We provide perspective about how our quest for belonging and identity are impacted by sexism, white supremacy, capitalism, and attempted genocide. All within the larger context of hope that reconnecting to our roots is possible.

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Directions

Reconnecting to our roots will be different for each of us. We are all starting off from a different place, and we will end up in a different one too. We each have different layers of identity to think about, psychological and physical places that we need to visit and re-visit, and roads to walk that are ours alone. We give people the tools to make our own maps to reconnect to our roots.

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Guidance

‘Coming home’ work is an umbrella term that describes a series of steps that provide some guidance for those who wish to reclaim our Native/Indigenous identity with respect, integrity, and care. We guide people through lies, hidden truths, and forgotten memories taken from us by oppression, assimilation, and isolation so that we can get the help we all need to find ourselves and reconnect to our roots.

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Coaching

Reconnecting means doing the work so that we can learn how to behave according to principles, values, and traditions that were taken away from us through forced assimilation and policies of genocide. Whatever was lost can be reclaimed as long as we are willing to be responsible and accountable community members. We coach people as we do coming home work to help us figure out how to put this all into practice along our reconnection journey, wherever it may lead.

What People Are Saying About Our Classes

  • From Nicole Brathewaite-Hunt in Worcester, MA

    My name is Nicole and I recently completed the Journey Home (Reclaiming Indigeneity) workshop series with Rosa Blumenfeld. What an eye opening, and informative series this turned out to be! She took what is a very controversial and daunting subject, and broke it down into a sensitive, honorable dialog on how we got to this place of separation, and how we can start having the tough, but necessary conversations about how we can "come back home to ourselves"; in a good way. From the very first class, everyone seemed to feel the energy of this being a safe and sacred space in which to learn, be vulnerable, ask questions, and "Go there!". The respect was always front and center. I loved how the comradery just seemed to bloom, and grow so quickly; especially over Zoom! The teachings, personal sharings, mutual support, and acceptance, gave every one one us the opportunity to go deep, and get unexpected insights from the series. It certainly did add to my personal journey of discovery, and "Going Home" work. If you ever get the chance to participate in this workshop, I would highly recommend it! Thanks again Rosa! Great job!

  • From Jasmine Inaru Karey Pacheco-Monroe in Orlando, FL

    This class really helped me. Rosa Blumenfeld’s material and discussion was thought provoking and challenging. It was a safe place to allow myself to be unraveled and learn to rebuild. It gave me new perspective and the courage to find my community and begin to have new views and beliefs. Because of this class, I had discussions with my family, and found my yukayek, my new family. I made friends who understood the journey I am still on. (Especially M. If you see this, I love you and can’t wait til we see each other again.) Check it out. Thank u Rosa. U changed my life. Without my yukayek I would have been in a very dark place after losing momma.

  • From Michelle C. Suarez in Orlando, FL (Seminole and Micossukee territories)

    Really recommend this class for folks who grew up in Latinidad and want to reconnect to their Indigenous roots. I found a lot of healing uncovering my identity and coming into terms of what it means to be a descendant.

How Do We Reconnect?

Online Classes

We offer intimate online classes of up to 10 students so that there is enough space and time for each of us to bring our own kind of intelligence, both communal and personal, that shapes the conversation and contributes to the learning environment.

In order to build safety within the group, cameras need to be on and students are expected to actively participate by sharing their own experiences.

In Person Retreats and Workshops

In 2025, we launched Casa Romero, a Decolonization Retreat Center and Traditional Medicine School in Colombia. Starting in 2026 we will be offering language immersion workshops, solo retreats, and eco tourism.

Coaching

If you have completed all or some of our classes and want to keep going, please reach out for coaching. What we all need is a friend to hold our hands as we confront what we need to in order to keep going as we reconnect. These one on one consultations as a space to ask questions, get guidance, and figure out next steps.