Great Plain Action Society’s

Indigenous-led Urban Resilience & Innovation Hub

A living workshop for
justice, healing, and economic reimagining!

Great Plains Action Society (GPAS) is turning 1.05 acres of historically colonized and unhealthy land into a living workshop for justice, healing, and economic reimagining!

Located in Iowa City, this hub is dreaming into:

• A center for First Foods farming & prairie restoration

• A healing justice house for all with a focus on BIPOC & 2SLGBTQ+ communities

• Entrepreneurial launch pads for BIPOC-owned small businesses

• A center community building with classrooms, a teaching kitchen, art room and event space

• A mutual aid café with pay-what-you-can pricing

• A matriarchal, regenerative space rooted in Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)

This is not just land back—it’s ReMatriation. It’s replacing extractive capitalism with compassion, community, and Indigenous futurism created by matriarchal thinking.

When Indigenous folks steward,
Land heals.  

When matriarchal values guide, Communities thrive.  

When mutual aid replaces monopoly, Justice blooms.

— Sikowis Nobiss, GPAS Director

GPAS is currently raising 500K to renovate and retrofit the buildings—and every dollar brings us closer to a world where land heals, communities thrive, and justice blooms.

Lance Foster’s Mankaye inside the Hub