The Deep Medicine Circle (DMC) is a WOC-led, collaborative 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization dedicated to repairing critical relationships that have been fractured through colonialism. Starting from a place of correcting relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, they cultivate a culture of care to support the health and healing of people and communities of plants and animals which are critical for our survival and thriving.
They are a collective of farmers, elders, physicians, healers, herbalists, ecological designers, scholars, political ecologists, educators, youth, storytellers and artists. They adhere to earth-based, Indigenous ecofeminist principles of organizing, with participatory governance structures and circles of decision-making. They understand the existential threat of climate change as the end-stage of colonial capitalist destruction and they innovate structural solutions based in cosmologies that can heal ruptured relationships to the web of life. They prioritize Indigenous communities in their processes of healing through supporting campaigns and programs in land back, uplifting Indigenous sovereignty and advancing decolonizing methodologies in scholarship and practice. They create opportunities for other groups marginalized through colonial structures to partner in this work while exploring structural solutions for health and vitality.