GRADES 9-12
Tribal Personal Finance + Seven Generations, TPF+7G™
What Would It Look Like to Learn Personal Finance as an Act of Sovereignty?
TPF+7G™ was built for Native high school students, wherever they live, whatever their background, and whatever their relationship to tribal finance looks like today. It is the only accredited and transcriptable personal finance course designed specifically for Native students, available right now through fully virtual delivery to students across the United States. You do not have to move, transfer, or wait. You just have to start.
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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
TPF+7G™ covers the full arc of financial life, from your first allowance to long-term wealth building, through a framework built around your reality, not retrofitted to it. You will learn about the trauma of money and bank and finance desert conditions on Native communities; how income works, how to build a budget that actually holds, and how to use banking, credit, and debt as tools rather than traps. You will learn how to invest, how to build wealth across time, and how to navigate the tax system, including the provisions, exemptions, and sovereign-specific structures that apply to Native individuals and that standard personal finance courses don’t teach. You will develop the consumer rights knowledge and financial self-advocacy skills to protect what you earn and grow what you build.
And running through every unit is the question that makes this course unlike any other: not just what is the smart financial move for me, but what does this decision mean for the seven generations that come after me?
FINANCE AS COMMUNITY
TPF+7G™ treats money management not as something you do alone, but as something you do for and with your community. Financial literacy, in this framework, is not just a personal skill, it is an expression of self-determination. When a Native student understands their sovereign rights and their community’s economic landscape, they are not just managing money. They are participating in the ongoing work of tribal self-determination.
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AVAILABILITY & ENROLLMENT
TPF+7G™ is fully virtual and available to Native high school students across the United States — no geographic restrictions, no relocation required. Individual students can enroll directly. The course is accredited and transcriptable, meaning what you learn can earn school credit because the course meets the academic requirements of your state. If your tribe or school district is interested in bringing the course to multiple students, group enrollment options are available. Group enrollment in TPF+7G™ is a community development strategy. Reach out to start that conversation.