This is where Relentless Feather is headed between now and 2029, written out one phase at a time. Scroll the timeline to follow the plan year by year: what we build, and how many students and partners we are working to reach.
Start a conversationEach phase carries the totals from the phase before it, so the count of students and partners only climbs. When we say active partners, we mean the organizations working with us in a given year. Phase 1 does not start from zero: since it was founded, Relentless Feather has taught more than 250 students and built 7 partner organizations.
Every number that follows is measured from here. Since it was founded, Relentless Feather has taught more than 250 students and worked with 7 partner organizations.
2026 also brought one of our biggest goals to life: a fully online learning portal for our units, with a teacher and educator dashboard that tracks each student's progress as they work.
The first job is to show the model travels: that Relentless Feather works in many classrooms and organizations without being rebuilt from scratch every time.
By the second phase, Relentless Feather should be a name schools across the region know.
That means more Tribal school and public-school Indian Education partnerships, cohorts of teachers trained together, and more programs run directly with students. The first paid program staff arrive, including a coordinator who becomes RF's steady presence in South Dakota or North Dakota. The evaluation record gets stronger, and the grants get bigger.
The final phase gets Relentless Feather ready to grow beyond the region without losing Native leadership or community accountability.
Most of the work is groundwork: write down how RF teaches, decide what curriculum can travel and what has to be built locally, and start building national relationships and a national funding plan. If the demand is there, RF adds a training pathway for educators. Neighboring states, Wisconsin, Montana, Nebraska, and beyond, become the first conversations about expansion.
Curriculum teaches the skills. Programs build the confidence. The pathway layer answers the question every student eventually asks: then what? Introductions to Native technologists and visits to tech companies start in Phase 1. Mock interviews, trips to conferences, and first internships follow in Phase 2. Scholarships, awards, and a structured internship waterway arrive in Phase 3, a channel that carries students into technology jobs and back home to their Nations.
Relentless Feather has 36 units today, and the plan is to add roughly 36 more over the next two to three years, spread across new topics: Python, game-building, and apps to start, then expanded AI, and later frontend, backend, JavaScript, and cybersecurity. That would roughly double the library. What gets built is driven by what teachers and partners actually use, not by chasing a bigger number.
The long game is real relationships with all 23 Tribal Nations of Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota. Not a signed contract with every Nation right away, but growth that happens on purpose instead of by accident.
By the end of this plan, here is what Relentless Feather looks like: