From The People

10/11/2021

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!

Visit From The People to support Indigenous artists today and everyday.

09/06/2021

We have a new app available, called Native Time! Indigenous history is too often ignored, and this app aims to help fix that. It has a “This Day in Indigenous History” feature that has thousands of historical entries and changes each day. It’s also easy to save the entries to read for later and to share them with your friends.

We also included Indigenous calendars that you can pin to your Home Tab. Our hope is that this helps Indigenous folks to feel closer to their traditional timekeeping systems, instead of always having to use the Western calendar.

Get it on the Apple App Store here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/native-time/id1578407056

And on the Google Play Store here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ftp.nativeTime

06/11/2021

We are super excited to promote the pre-sales of From The People artist Jazz Aline. She is selling prints of her artwork!

Jazz will be taking pre-orders until Sunday and will place your orders on Monday.

Words from the artist: “It’s been one hell of a year full of ups and downs. Whether you’re buying for yourself or as a gift for others you are giving me a gift when you purchase as well! These prints are brimming with love, heartache, passion and storytelling that I want to share with you. Maarsii!”

05/22/2021

Official 50th Annual Stanford Powwow T-shirts, hoodies, bags, and more available on From The People. Special edition T-shirts from Urban Native Era and the Stanford Powwow’s collaboration are displayed on the front page!

All merchandise is Native-designed

We are so excited to be hosting the largest student-run Powwow in the country on our platform!

05/19/2021

Stanford Powwow Virtual Art Market Event is LIVE on From The People!

This year’s Stanford Powwow theme is “Indigenous Excellence: A celebration of Generations”

Official Stanford Powwow merchandise and Limited Edition Stanford Powwow x Urban Native Era T-Shirts available for purchase on the front page of From The People!

Click events from the sidebar to see all virtual events hosted on From The People. You can see the work of all the Native vendors associated with Stanford Powwow by clicking on the official Stanford Powwow poster under Events.

05/06/2021

This May 5th on Awareness Day, we’d like to bring attention to the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that contains provisions granting Tribal Nations the ability to prosecute non-Native offenders who commit violent acts against Native women on Native lands. Urge your senators to to protect Native women, girls, and Two Spirit peoples.
TW and more details below:
In a conversation surrounding the rampant violence against Native women in Indian Country today, it is important to establish that sexual assault is not traditional within Native communities. Many Tribes did not tolerate sexual violence as it conflicted with the reverence held for Native women within many Nations (Deer et al. 6).

Colonization marked the erosion of safety for Native women on this continent. The legacy of violence against Native women by non-Native men may have begun with colonization but persists at high rates even today. One in three Native women will experience sexual violence within their lifetime and 96% of these Native sexual assault victims experience this violence at the hands of non-Natives (Allison 225).

Tribal Nations and courts have been stripped of their sovereign right to prosecute non-Native offenders and these cases are often dismissed by federal and state courts. Thus, a loophole exists in our justice system that allows non-Native offenders to commit violent acts against Native women on Native lands without fear of consequences (Rosay 41).

The tribal provisions in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) attempt to close this loophole by granting a small number of compliant tribal courts the ability to prosecute non-Native offenders who abuse Native women. Call and urge your senators to pass the Violence Against Women Act to extend tribes their inherent sovereign right to protect their citizens!

05/03/2021

This is a little different from what we usually post, but we have a Kickstarter project that is currently live! It is for the production of a bottle opener that our co-founder Chase designed for a school project.

It's made of solid brass and has a completely custom design. We put it up on Kickstarter to see how popular it might be, and the Kickstarter team actually liked it so much, they selected it as a "Project We Love”!

If you want to learn more or buy one for yourself, you can use this link to go to the Kickstarter page:

A unique bottle opener with a story in every detail

04/30/2021

Ever wondered how our fees compare to Etsy’s? We keep our fees as low as possible so that as much money as possible goes back to the artists on our site.

Etsy, on the other hand, seems to have a fee for everything! And over time, those fees really start to add up.

Our fees help us maintain our website as a space for Native artists. Plus, a portion of our proceeds are donated to stop violence against Native women and combat COVID-19 in Indian Country.

If you’re ready to make the switch from Etsy, just apply on our website (link in our bio) or message us here!

Buy Indigenous goods directly from artists. Over 70 Native American and First Nations Artisans, working in all styles!

04/27/2021

From The People on CNN’s Start Small Think Big segment. Here’s the video that aired the other day in case you missed it!

It’s only been a year and we are so grateful for the progress we’ve made. We are so thankful for all the amazing and talented Indigenous artists on our platform who have made our site what it is today! Special shout out to Kolbi for being a vendor with us and agreeing to the interview. She did such a great job! 💛❤️🖤🤍

Every purchase on From The People directly supports an Indigenous artists, promotes an exchange of cultural appreciation, and a portion of our proceeds are donated to stop violence against Native women and combat COVID-19 in Indian Country.

04/14/2021

We've updated our Map! You can now see the Indigenous territories of an area and we've added new Native Place names to towns and landmarks.

Here you can see the territory of the Navajo Nation with markers and names for Navajo chapter houses. Check it out on our website through the link in our bio!

04/07/2021

🌸 We started From The People less than a year ago and never could have imagined we’d be speaking with Special Projects about our work! We talked about how we are making the best Indigenous marketplace we can to support Native artists and their craft 🌸

Here is our cofounder Isabella showing off her Native-made earrings for the camera 💁🏽‍♀️

The full project will be released in a couple months, so stay tuned for the full video!

03/20/2021

🌙 Native artist Latisha Buck Elk Thunder’s beautiful beadwork on From The People 🌙

Directly support Indigenous artists while donating to Native causes!

Part of every sale on From The People is donated to the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women and the First Nations Development Institute Covid-19 Emergency Response Fund.

Purchase Latisha Buck Elk Thunder’s beaded earrings on the front page of From The People.

Artist Bio: “Be Thunder Creations are contemporary Indigenous adornments by Latisha Buck Elk Thunder, a Diné and enrolled Amskapi Piikani beadweaver born on the ancestral lands of her mother and raised on the ancestral lands of her father.

Latisha first came to beads through the matriarchs in her family as they helped her create traditional regalia. She took to beadwork as a healing meditative practice for many years before building a passionate business where each handmade piece is cultivated with thoughtful, strong cultural roots. Intention is put into the colors and designs so that they emanante positivity and strength for whomever wears them. All Be Thunder Creations are welcome for anyone to wear and purchase as they are not ceremonial pieces.”