Mother Earth ROOTS was founded by a Native American family in Northern California with the goal to add natural, cultural, and generational knowledge to indigenous youth.
Michael and Ma-kayla Hunter are a father-daughter team along with Stephanie Hicks who founded ROOTS. They were inspired by their grandchildren, nieces, nephews and siblings to encourage Indigenous and Native American children outdoors and off their devices.
We know that knowledge and power can be passed down from those who came before us. We strive for generational knowledge and interconnection with each other, our families, our earth, and our ancestors. We believe the best teacher is Mother Earth!
Founding Students
Our future
Our founding students are also future leaders. We hope they will continue to learn and grow throughout our programs, and one day become mentors and eventually leaders to future students! Camp ROOTS has 10 founding students between 4 and 14 years old. They are all Native American children from Northern California, where ROOTS was founded. Meet our founding students!
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Each student, mentor, and leader has a Nature Name that they choose for themselves! These are most used while talking on the radios. Each student learns about their plant or animal and presents a presentation to the group. during our time together. All names live and grow in California.
Meet the Team!
Here at ROOTS we have camp leaders, mentors,
and students. Our organization's founders come from
Native American backgrounds across different generations.
