We Come from These Communities.
We’ve Lived It.
Southwest Native Assets Coalition is a Native-led nonprofit providing financial and credit empowerment with access to capital for individuals and families across tribal communities.
Why We Started This
We started SWNAC because we watched our own people get taken advantage of with no one to help them. Predatory lenders surround our communities. Banks leave. Interest rates reach 200–300%.
For every dollar a white household earns, a Native American household has eight cents. That’s not a gap. That’s an extraction.
There’s no word for “housing counselor” in the Navajo language. The financial concepts don’t exist in the cultural framework — not because our people lack understanding, but because our communities have always had their own ways of building wealth: cattle, children, grandchildren, skills, heritage. The system that excluded us was never our system.
We built SWNAC to change that. Not by bringing in outsiders, but by showing up from within
How We Show Up
We are navigators and activators. We come from our communities and meet our communities where they’re at.
That means driving 30 minutes to two hours to reach you. It means sitting at your kitchen table, your chapter house, your workplace. It means helping you fill out the paperwork, making the calls with you, and staying until the job is done.
Approachability
We speak your language. We know the reality. No judgment, no jargon.
Accessibility
We meet you where you are — your chapter house, home, or by phone.
Availability
We don’t hand you a number. We stay until the job is done.
We are reclaiming the narrative by creating opportunities with access.
We believe sovereignty comes through education. Knowledge is our medicine.
“True wealth is not found in temporary gains. It is found in the integrity of the foundation we leave for the next seven generations.”
— My-Tegia Lee
Let’s Have a Conversation.
You don’t have to figure this out alone.
We’re ready whenever you are.
We respect your autonomy, your privacy, and your sovereignty.