The Kana Samurai Foundation (KSF) is dedicated to honoring, preserving, and protecting Indigenous cultures across the Americas, beginning with the Noke Koi people of the Brazilian Amazon. Our mission is to support cultural continuity by strengthening the foundations that allow communities to sustain themselves with dignity and autonomy on their ancestral lands.

KSF partners directly with Indigenous leaders to address challenges through three interconnected areas: health and water security, food systems and nutrition, and shelter and cultural infrastructure. Across all areas, educating and vocational training are central to our approach.

By pairing infrastructure, education, training, and regenerative capital, KSF helps Indigenous communities meet immediate needs while building long-term self-sufficiency, allowing culture to be lived, practiced, and passed on to future generations.

We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to honoring, preserving, and protecting Indigenous cultures across the Americas, starting with the Noke Koi Nation of the Brazilian Amazon.

We do this by:

• Supporting tribal leadership
• Providing clean water, food, education, and shelter
  
• Vocational training, regenerative capital, and community-owned trade
  
• Preserving language, ceremony, and sacred medicine traditions
• Upholding the principle of Ayni – sacred reciprocity

We envision a world where Indigenous peoples are thriving, respected, and empowered — where elders are honored, children are nourished, and communities are free to live in harmony with Earth.

Our vision includes:

• Sustainable villages with clean water, food security, and health services


• Cultural preservation through education and sacred exchange


• Protection of ancestral lands and ecological knowledge


• A global alliance of guardians, committed to balance and peace

We work toward this vision by directly providing Amazonian indigenous communities with resources related to food security, transportation, education, health care, and other essentials of life. While these ancient cultures share rich and time-honored traditions of living in harmony with the planet, modern globalization has encroached on their way of life and introduced new struggles, including foreign concepts like poverty, addiction, pollution and scarcity. We envision a reality in which these communities are supported, protected and free to thrive in today’s world, and encouraged to maintain their unique essence rather than assimilating in order to keep up with global pressures.

In the Quechua language, the word “Ayni” refers to the idea of reciprocity, acknowledging our interconnectedness in the web of existence and our sacred duty to one another in our shared community. The Amazon and its people provide the world with resources and wisdom that serve all mankind, and yet these people and their home face the threat of extinction. The vision of the Kana Samura Foundation is to engage in the practice of Ayni by protecting these lands and their guardians, equipping tribal communities with what they need to thrive and maintain their identity.

These tribes are vital, valuable members of our global community, and we support their flourishing by providing goods, services and education: we feed hungry people and help them build regenerative systems of long-term food security; we equip communities with vehicles like trucks and boats to support their self-sufficiency; we employ skilled local laborers to construct shelters that serve as family housing and community gathering places; we support the livelihood of elders so they are free to share their wisdom with the next generation; and we facilitate cultural exchange and global kinship by visiting these communities, serving them, listening to them, and building strong relationships of trust and reciprocity.

Since 2008, the Kana Samurai Foundation has been building these relationships, honoring indigenous people and the land by showing up and giving back. We aim to continue and scale up this work in the coming years, feeding and sheltering more people, creating more sustainable infrastructure, providing increased access to health care, and building healing and education centers that serve as a nexus of communication between indigenous and modern cultures. Direct exposure to the ancient wisdom and therapies of these timeless indigenous cultures has had a profound healing impact on the lives of countless visitors – and this wisdom, in turn, benefits our families and communities as well.

Our foundation began our work in one specific tribal community, Samauma, the sacred land of the Noke Koi people – but over time, we see this work radiating out and impacting even more people. Our hope and belief is that by healing and serving one tribe, this harmony and quality of life will ripple out to all beings.

We hope more and more people will join and support our work to preserve, strengthen, and honor indigenous cultures, directly improving their quality of life and liberating their wisdom to heal the world.

Kana Samurai Foundation supports indigenous Amazonian tribes through cultural preservation, food security, education, and healing. Their mission bridges worlds—empowering native communities while sharing ancient wisdom to inspire global transformation. Learn More »