In October 2020, Tzicatl Community Development Corporation, a 501c3 Autonomous Indigenous Peoples Organization, was awarded the U.S. Department of Education Accessing Choices in Education (ACE) Grant by the Office of Indian Education to fund the American Indian Resurgence Initiative. The Initiative launches the Native Ways 2 College project to establish an ecosystem of education and wellness centered on Native knowledge, accessible to students during this critical time and carry with them into the future. By empowering Los Angeles County Native American students to succeed in school, college and community, the AIR Initiative design disrupts the historic failures of government schooling 

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Tzicatl Community Development Corporation (Tzicatl CDC) was founded in Los Angeles in 2002. Our mission is to advance the rights of Indigenous Peoples, the reparation of community and advocacy for healthy ecosystems to cultivate Indigenous education and culture in relation with ancestral lands. With the support from the U.S. Department of Education and our partners, we are able to provide the direct services and assessment necessary to achieve this mission.  

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Tzicatl cultivates and supports Indigenous education as a key partner and sister organization to Semillas Sociedad Civil (Semillas), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit Indigenous educational organization, which operates the Anahuacalmecac International University Preparatory of North America charter school. Also founded in 2002, Anahuacalmecac is a community-based K-12 charter school serving 300 students and their families and is the only public school in Los Angeles that is dedicated to the academic and cultural needs of Indigenous children. Anahuacalmecac uses an International Baccalaureate model and is dedicated to student-centered schooling that includes a language-rich, culturally meaningful, and academically-rigorous environment rooted in principles of sovereign knowledge particular to Indigenous Peoples.