Continental Indigenous Council Joins AI for Peace as an Official Partner
Indigenous-led Council brings more than five decades of prayer, consultation, healing, and responsibility to Mother Earth to the 44-day global Compassion Game
MINNEAPOLIS, August 8, 2026 — The Continental Indigenous Council is joining AI for Peace as an official partner in Proving Peace Is Possible, a 44-day global Compassion Game beginning August 8 and leading to September 21, the United Nations International Day of Peace.
The initiative is mobilizing people worldwide through prayer, compassionate action, cooperation, consultation, and peacemaking. Its shared goal is to help make September 21 a genuine Global Pause—a day when war and violence cease, humanitarian space opens, and people everywhere choose peace and nonviolence.
The Continental Indigenous Council will encourage prayer, ceremony, Talking Circles, compassionate service, intergenerational participation, and actions protecting and restoring Mother Earth throughout the 44 days.
The Council brings an essential Indigenous spiritual foundation to AI for Peace. It understands peace as more than the absence of war. Peace requires restoring right relationship within ourselves, among families and communities, between peoples and nations, across generations, and between the Human Family and Mother Earth.
Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr., Chairperson of the Continental Indigenous Council and Compassion Games International and a founder of AI for Peace, welcomed the partnership.
“The Continental Indigenous Council brings to AI for Peace a sacred process of Indigenous engagement that has been unfolding since 1970. For more than half a century, this movement has worked through prayer, consultation, ceremony, friendship, and service to bring Indigenous Peoples together across Nations, cultures, languages, spiritual traditions, and political boundaries. Peace must grow from within the human heart and through the relationships that connect us. This is the spirit the Council brings to AI for Peace—a Hoop of Many Hoops and a Team of Teams working together for the well-being of the Human Family, Mother Earth, and the generations yet to come.”
The foundations of the Continental Indigenous Council were laid during the Yakama Council Fires held at White Swan on the Yakama Nation in 1969 and 1970. These gatherings helped kindle a spiritual movement dedicated to Indigenous unity, healing, consultation, service, and the sacred responsibilities carried by Indigenous Peoples.
The first formal Continental Indigenous Council was held from October 6–8, 1978, at White Swan. Approximately 200 Indigenous people representing 28 tribes and Nations from the United States, Canada, and Alaska participated. Phil Lane Jr. was elected Chairperson during that historic gathering and has continued to carry that responsibility.
Subsequent Councils brought together more than 400 Indigenous people representing 55 tribes and Nations near Wilmette, Illinois, in 1980; more than 480 Indigenous people representing 66 tribes and Nations from 10 countries on the Kainai Nation in Alberta in 1982; and more than 300 Indigenous relatives in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1986.
Through the Councils, the Trails of Light, El Camino del Sol, and related initiatives, Indigenous relatives carried prayers, songs, dances, teachings, and messages of unity throughout Alaska, Canada, the United States, Central America, and South America. These journeys strengthened relationships among the Peoples of the Eagle, Condor, Hummingbird, and Quetzal.
On June 16, 2026, the Continental Indigenous Council was prayerfully reignited by 16 relatives with renewed vision and purpose. It continues as a nonpartisan, principle-centered, non-proselytizing, and Indigenous-led movement of unity, healing, spiritual responsibility, and service.
The Council’s guiding principles affirm that development comes from within, healing is necessary for lasting transformation, everything is interconnected, and no sustainable development can occur without unity and meaningful participation. It teaches that authentic development must be culturally rooted, spiritually and morally grounded, continually learning, and responsible to future generations.
These principles closely align with AI for Peace and its commitment to bringing humanity’s many forms of intelligence—Indigenous intelligence, spiritual intelligence, emotional intelligence, cooperation science, community wisdom, technological innovation, and artificial intelligence—into service to life.
The Continental Indigenous Council joins a growing circle of official partners and participating organizations within the AI for Peace team of teams, including Compassion Games International, ProSocial World, Four Worlds International Institute, One World, UNITY EARTH, Evolutionary Leaders Partners, HubCast International, We The World, Pathways To Peace, Global Silent Minute, May Peace Prevail On Earth International, Union of the Condor, Hummingbird, Quetzal, and Eagle, Peace One Day, Empowerment Institute, Earth Mother Network, Indigenous Wisdom Institute, Great Transition Stories, NewStories, Brand Earth, TEEM Labs, and UNITED EARTH NETWORKS.
The 44-day Compassion Game begins during the August 8 Global Peace Activation and Being Minneapolis gathering and continues through September 21. Participants will pray, serve, build relationships, support peacebuilders and affected communities, and invite individuals, organizations, and nations to stand behind the call for a worldwide ceasefire and day of nonviolence.
The central question is simple but profound: Can humanity organize its collective intelligence and compassion across our differences to help bring about one day—September 21—when war and violence stop for 24 hours, and peace is given a chance?
To learn more and join the 44-day global Compassion Game, visit AIforPeace.earth.
About the Continental Indigenous Council
The Continental Indigenous Council is a nonpartisan, principle-centered, non-proselytizing, and Indigenous-led movement dedicated to the spiritual unity, healing, development, and self-determination of Indigenous Peoples and the well-being of the entire Human Family. Its work is grounded in prayer, ceremony, consultation, cultural and spiritual diversity, service, protection of Mother Earth, and responsibility to the Seventh Generation.
About AI for Peace
AI for Peace is an emerging global team of teams committed to putting intelligence in service to life. Its first shared challenge, Proving Peace Is Possible, is a 44-day Compassion Game inviting people and organizations worldwide to help honor September 21, the United Nations International Day of Peace, as a genuine Global Pause—a day of ceasefire, nonviolence, and peace.
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