The secret behind the survival of indigenous indigenous people have been there ancestral practices, cultural heritage, connecting with nature through indigenous systems honorations such as, their traditional meal, traditional regalias, the indigenous farming systems, spaces for sharing indigenous wisdom from elders to the youths, right of passage leadership where knowledge is shared from wisdom keepers to the younger generation,sustainable ways of living in the indigenous and modern world, indigenous healing methods and values such as herbs for medicinals purposes, craft , and arts for sustainable living as a means of self employment . storing information through ancestral crafts.