Moving the All Nations Hotline to the All Nations Network was a multi-year, deeply nuanced effort. In 2020, Vu Gandin Le worked alongside Dr. Warrior and her team to launch the first crisis hotline run specifically for Native Americans, by Native Americans.

Through the make/care process we designed the transition from a singular hotline to a Network revealed something far more powerful: a way to reach their people not just in moments of crisis, but throughout the life course.

Our methodology was purposefully—and literally—messy. We gathered community elders, young parents, children, and hotline agents to create paper by hand, embedding their stories into layers of color, texture, and shape. This collective, tactile process became the foundation of the new logo, which was then brought into the digital realm—a lasting visual expression of the life’s work that Dr. Warrior and her team entrusted us to bring forward.

This project is ongoing but has been paused due to funding freezes to Haskell Indian Nations University. The hotline remains active, however.