Ableza's Mission Statement

Ableza is a Native American Arts and Film Institute is dedicated to promoting, preserving, perpetuating, and protecting traditional and contemporary arts by First Nations Peoples.

First Nations Peoples do more than"Indian" art. Active in all areas of the modern-arts world, we reclaim and re-define our images, arts, and cultures, in an effort to eliminate mainstream stereotypes and categorizations.

Ableza endeavors to re-educate the world's erroneous impressions of First Nations Peoples with self-defined, accurate respresentations of our vast professional arts activities. Through our arts and arts-education programs, especially for our youth, Ableza promotes self-esteem, and a better concept and recognition of who we truly are.

Ableza : A Lakota (Sioux) word meaning "to recognize something as highly significant; a sign."

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