Overview
Beyond Crisis. Toward Healing.
SAGE moves beyond a crisis mentality and the hopeless mindset of being without a home. It engages the issues over a realistic and meaningful course of time — designed to evolve urban Indigenous peoples forward in terms of addressing authentic, secure shelter, wrapped around unique service models in a nurtured residential acquisition environment.
SAGE is the ethical space for coordination, cooperation, and meaningful solutions both short-term and long-term in nature. This process unfolds in a nurtured community process supported by SAGE.
In sacred terms, sage is the medicine which when appropriately engaged, removes negatives and cleanses our surroundings and material objects — neutralizing negative energies and promoting wellness and healing. This represents a necessary change to the status quo, which projects a colonial-based inequality or imbalance.
Core Principles
What SAGE Embodies
Sacred Medicine
In sacred terms, sage is the medicine which, when appropriately engaged, removes negatives and cleanses our surroundings and material objects — neutralizing negative energies and promoting wellness and healing.
Authentic Shelter
SAGE engages the issues of housing over a realistic and meaningful course of time — designed to evolve urban Indigenous peoples forward in terms of addressing authentic, secure shelter wrapped around unique service models.
Nurtured Community
This process unfolds in a nurtured community process. SAGE is the ethical space for coordination, cooperation, and meaningful solutions — both short-term and long-term in nature.
Economic Balance
The SAGE Land Trust initiative provides access and balance to what was historically economic oppression — embracing current and potential stakeholders for a land trust model that can support or intervene in the threat and risk to homes for urban Indigenous people.
The SAGE Land Trust
Addressing the Root of Economic Imbalance
The attributes of Sage are embodied through the SAGE Land Trust initiative — providing access and balance to what was historically economic oppression, which remains impactful today in mainstream economies.
SAGE, as a transformative process affecting housing and homelessness, correlates with an economic and resource balance — embracing current and potential stakeholders for a land trust model which can support or intervene in the threat and risk to homes for urban Indigenous people.
This represents a necessary change to the status quo which projects a colonial-based inequality or imbalance. The SAGE Land Trust is the vehicle through which that balance is restored.
"SAGE is the ethical space for coordination, cooperation, and meaningful solutions — both short-term and long-term in nature."
Walk This Path With Us
Whether you are a community organization, a funding partner, or a family in need of housing — we welcome the conversation. SAGE is built on relationship, and every relationship begins with a first step.