Midwest SOARRING Foundation, was formed in 1996 as an organization that would provide education about American Indian Cultures and environmental concerns. In 1999 the Foundation took on the responsibilities of facilitating repatriation and protection of sacred sites, previously the responsibilities of Midwest SOARRING. Education, being of utmost importance to us, allows us to promote a better understanding of Indigenous cultures and the respect for our Mother Earth. As this understanding grows so does our Community. We invite you to join Midwest SOARRING Foundation and become part of our Extended Family!

 Listed below are a few of the highlights of our work together.

• Co-sponsored The Homecoming of the Kickapoo Nation Pow Wow at the Grand Village, Le Roy, Illinois, in 1998, to welcome the Kickapoo Nation back to Illinois for the first time since 1832.
• Has worked with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to reintroduce native plants such as sage, sweetgrass and tobacco in several areas in Illinois, including our garden and Native Plant Program located in Westchester Illinois.
• Sponsors lectures on the history and traditions of the Indigenous cultures, including the pre-Columbian, early historic and current eras.
• Sponsored the Save the Bison program in September 1999, and purchased the first bison of a planned band of 25, as a symbol of the people's survival and endurance, and to encourage re-population in Illinois. Midwest SOARRING Foundation currently has seven bison with the last four donated by the Elgin Park District.
• On August 1, 2000 Midwest SOARRING facilitated a land transfer to the Winnebago Nation, which will allow other original tribes of Illinois to use it.  This is the first Native burial ground in the state of Illinois since the 1830's.
• Received approximately 50 acres of land in Carlinville, Illinois. This land, donated by Mary Wilhelm, is planned for a recreated pre-Columbian/contact period model village, with a cultural learning complex, gathering center for ceremonies, conferences and pow wows, and areas to restore to original landscape.
• Co-sponsored the first place award-winning Garden of the Great Spirit exhibit held at Chicago's Annual Flower and Garden Show in March 2000. The exhibit featured a re-created Ojibwe village scene amongst all native plants and a simulated river.
• Sponsors annual trips to various places, including an annual canoe and camping trip. Other trips may include a trip to Cahokia, the Oneida reservation for harvesting their heirloom corn or a weekend to Waswagoning, a recreated Ojibwe village owned and operated by Nick Hockings.
• Acted as consultants to the Brookfield Zoo in planning their Rhythm and Roots Festival, which for three consecutive years had featured the Native American culture. In 2001, we made history, as it was the zoo's first time ever, featuring the Native Culture in any of their events.
• Sponsors the Annual Harvest Pow Wow which was held in Mokena Illinois for the last nine of ten years. In 2005 the pow wow will move to a new location at the Naper Settlement, in Naperville, Illinois. Many have said it is the best pow wow in Illinois. In 2002, an article about the Harvest Pow Wow was written in the Whispering Winds Magazine after the writer visited the event during one of our country's most tragic times, September 2001.
• Works side-by-side with the Westchester Historical Society and the Save the Prairie Society located in Westchester Illinois. The prairie gives us a chance to regain our relationship with Mother Earth and allows us to appreciate the beauty the Creator gave us through the plants and animals encountered there. This location provides an excellent backdrop for our plant program.
• Worked in part to stop Senate Bill 1680, known as “Quick-take”, a bill which gave the Government power to take property without any recourse. The bill listed 52 pages of property sites planned for “Quick-take”.
• Works to provide propane to “Children's Village” an orphanage on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
• Participated in the opening ceremonies of the Abraham Lincoln National Veterans Cemetery.
• In 2002 MSF joined the Ill. Audubon Society's Save Plum Island Group to put a stop to development on Plum Island, located adjacent to Starved Rock State Park. Not only is this island a wintering habitat to the American Bald Eagle and habitat to other species as well, but it's also a Burial Ground of our Native American Ancestors. In 2003, Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn joined in the struggle. In March of 2004, the struggle was won by a grant given to the Ill. Audubon Society to designate the Island as an eagle sanctuary.
• Midwest SOARRING Foundation continuesthe struggle to keep drilling out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The meaning of the caribou to the Gwich'in people, parallels that of the bison to the Plains People. Please join us in this fight to save the Gwich'in Culture.
• Midwest SOARRING Foundation's current projects include a sacred plant program located at the Wolf Road Prairie, a bison herd, which currentlyis at 18 bison and located in Le Roy, Illinois, and working toward the establishment of a pre-historical village.