Before contacting us, please carefully review the following:

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To request Indigenous services from 7 Directions of Service – whether it’s for a speaker, presentation, land acknowledgement, project collaboration, or other community engagement opportunities – please follow these steps: 

Remember: all requests involve Indigenous labor. We value the chance to engage with various communities and share our work. However, many of us face constant demands for our time, energy, culturally extractive information, and unreciprocated labor. 

Before proceeding, thoroughly review the How to Come Correct Guide (developed by our friends at Sogorea Te’ Land Trust). Then, please submit your request using our contact form at least 4 weeks in advance, and we will respond via email as soon as possible. 

Tips for Engaging (from the team at Sogorea Te’ Land Trust): 

Please Be Respectful. Much of our work is tied to healing and addressing historic harm; discussing the history of colonization and genocide is challenging. We are not here to serve as a clearinghouse of free information or a checkbox for cultural display. We invite you to engage with us meaningfully rather than consume us. 

Please ensure that Indigenous people receive real honorariums, especially if you have connections to corporations and institutions. Encourage those entities to contribute to 7 Directions of Service. If funding is not currently available, consider organizing a fundraising effort and revisiting your request in a couple of months. 

Finally, allow us time to respond. We manage many requests and follow specific processes for decision-making.