Dedicated to Helping Native Peoples of the Americas
Projects
Ancestral land to return to the native community
In El Salvador, with the Nahuat community in Maquilishuat, we have facilitated the purchase of three acres of land. We are helping this community become a sustainable Indigenous community.
Toward this goal we have installed a solar panel and a compost toilet. 
Ongoing projects include purchasing adjacent land, installing a rain catchment system, building a greenhouse, purchasing a corn grinder, and promoting organic gardening.
With the Lenca community in Guatajiagua, El Salvador we are facilitating the purchase municipal land where the community has lived for many years. A childcare center will soon be built on that land.
We continue to seek assistance both nationally and internationally for funds that will enable the return 115 acres of ancestral land to the Lenca community. 
The ancestral land that we are focused on is the source of the raw material from which the community makes their unique low-fire black Lenca pottery, a basis of their (meager) economy.
Exchange and Education
Cultural Exchange
We have arranged cultural exchanges to bring Santos Zetino, Nahuat community leader from Maquilishuat, to visit Northern California. During these visits Santos educates our San Francisco SF Bay Area community about issues of concern to Indigenous people in El Salvador. We have also accompanied delegations of Native North American tribal members to El Salvador. We have ongoing efforts to establish hemispheric ties between the vibrant multicultural Native community of Northern California and Indigenous communities throughout the hemisphere.
Education
TNIC is committed to educating the public about issues of concern to Native communities throughout the hemisphere. Since 1986 TNIC has offered an annual public commemoration of El Salvador's 1932 Matanza.
The purpose of the commemoration is to educate the public about the Matanza, or Slaughter, a genocidal act of state violence that upwards of 30,000 (mostly Nahuat) lives. The commemoration is our way of supporting the ongoing struggle of Indigenous people in El Salvador for official recognition and for the protection of their human rights.
