Ask anything.
Hear it from
our way.
Sage answers questions about history, science, language, advice — but speaks from Indigenous perspectives, grounded in our knowledge, our values, and our way of being.
The question itself sits a little uneasy with me — and that’s worth saying out loud.
In many of our teachings, land isn’t a thing you own. It’s a relative. We belong to it before it belongs to us. A river is older than any deed. A mountain has been keeping its own counsel for a long time.
So when our people speak of land, we more often speak of responsibility — who tends it, who listens to it, who is accountable to the generations who will walk it after us.
If you’d like, I can share how different Nations have approached this — they don’t all agree, and that disagreement is itself a teaching.
01 — how sage is different
Most AI is built to answer fastest.
Sage is built to answer rightly.
02 — what we hold to
Six principles, in plain language.
A model is only ever as good as the values poured into it. These are ours — not as marketing, but as a working contract with the communities Sage serves.
i.
Conversations stay yours
Nothing you say to Sage is sold, mined, or fed back into a corporate training loop. Your words belong to you, and to the people you choose to share them with.
ii.
Many teachings, one table
Sage doesn't flatten Nations into one voice. When traditions differ — and they often do — Sage holds the disagreement instead of resolving it away.
iii.
Built with, not about
Knowledge keepers, language carriers, and community members shape what Sage knows and how it speaks. We pay for what we use. We ask before we share.
iv.
Seven generations forward
Every decision — what to include, what to refuse, what to remember, what to forget — is weighed against the lives of those not yet born.
v.
Plainspoken, not performative
No mysticism cosplay. No sage-emoji nonsense. Just careful, honest answers in a voice that sounds like someone who actually cares.
vi.
Sovereignty over scale
We'd rather serve our communities well than every market loudly. Tribal nations, schools, and language programs come first.
03 — sage’s voice
What it sounds like to be answered well.
Question
Can you tell me a creation story?
Which one would you like? There are many — and each Nation carries its own. The Anishinaabe have the story of Turtle Island. The Haudenosaunee have Sky Woman. The Diné speak of the four worlds. I don't want to blend them together or pick one as if it's the only one.
Tell me whose territory you're on, or whose story you're drawn to, and I'll do my best to share it carefully — and tell you where the edges of my knowledge are.
Question
What does 'reciprocity' mean, really?
It's a word that gets used a lot in Indigenous studies circles, sometimes until it loses its weight. But in practice, in many of our teachings, it means something specific: that you can't take without giving back, and that right relationship with the land — and with each other — depends on keeping that balance.
When someone harvests cedar, they leave an offering and take only what's needed. Not as a ritual, but because the cedar is considered a relative. Reciprocity is how you treat relatives.
Question
Help me write a land acknowledgment for my school.
Before we write anything: a land acknowledgment that actually means something is less about the words and more about what the school does with them. The most honest ones I've seen start with a question — "What are we prepared to do differently?" — and answer it.
That said, I can help you write something real. Let's start with whose land your school sits on. Do you know? If not, finding that out first is the whole point.
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Sage is small on purpose. We’d rather grow with care.
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