Fan.C (fancee) is the acronym for Find A Native.com and, as of recently, is a division of Saving the Circle, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit. The Fan.C mission is to make Indigenous peoples significantly more visible across the Nation and encourage equal representation across media and popular culture.
We promote COMMERCE by maintaining a database of indigenous Citizens and businesses across a broad spectrum of products and services.
We support and connect you to CAUSES that are important. Treaty Rights, Missing and Murdered, Cultural Theft, Indian Child Welfare, Sports Mascot Abuse, etc.
We build COMMUNITIES and strengthen CULTURE by connecting Citizens, Tribes, and interest groups.
Why we are unique
The Fan.C database includes both indigenous and mainstream expertise and skills. Our resources may have any combination of expertise and skills, i.e., an Engineer, a Jingle Dancer, or speak an Indigenous language. Maybe you’re looking for a chef, an auto-mechanic, or a graphic artist near your location. We identify and track Indigenous resources across hundreds of categories so we can #BuyNative.
Decolonizing Indigenous Citizenship! Fan.C Citizens will have the ability to authorize who becomes an authentic “indigenous resource”, making Tribal Nation membership cards an optional validation method.
It is difficult for Indigenous Nation Citizens to compete with larger population ethnic groups that can more easily form support coalitions. Most brands generally don’t look for ways to interact with the indigenous demographic. In fact, rather than supporting and promoting indigenous platforms, brands sometimes claim designs as their own and consider it open public domain. This lack of focus on, and promotion of indigenuity leaves a fragmented group of people to fend for themselves. There is a need to provide a more efficient mechanism for businesses and consumers to locate products and services that, in many cases, can and should only be provided by indigenous people.
Home Page Photo Credit: Unapologetically Indigenous
Model: Olivia P. Richardson at Haliwa-Saponi Tribal Powwow Grounds
Photography: Jamieson Silver
Paint: Lonny Street
Hair: Verna Street (Raven Street Dance Studios)
Earrings: Elena Jacobs-Polanco