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Diné C.A.R.E.
ounded in 1988 as a small, community-based organization fighting against a medical waste incinerator and dump site planned for the Navajo community of Dilkon, Arizona, CARE has built off its successful Dilkon campaign to expand environmental activism for Diné (Navajo) communities. Today, CARE serves a range of Navajo groups defending their communities against exploitative and destructive environmental issues.
Hopi Relief Fund
This 501(c)3 grassroots organization was created in honor of the Isswungwa (Coyote Clan) from the village of Hotevilla in Arizona. The Hopi Relief Fund partners with community leaders and organizers to source and distribute necessary supplies for Hopi community members as they recover from the COVID-19 crisis.
Indigenous Justice
working to end the incarceration of living native peoples in jails, prisons, and group homes across the state, to end the incarceration of our Salmon relatives impacted by dams on our rivers, and to end the incarceration of our ancestors' skeletons locked away in basements of universities. We are doing this through developing powerful indigenous leaders and communities and organizing with them to transform the systems, structures, and stories that keep us all imprisoned both physically and spiritually.
Over the past 4 years, we’ve made concrete progress towards our goal of liberating, defending, and decolonizing our food systems, ancestors, and current living relatives.
Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance
IMFA’s mission is to support American Indians’ rights to be seen and heard in independent media. The organization aims to create an environment where citizens can control their destiny by making informed decisions, and does this by funding campaigns to promote the preservation and amplification of Native American languages and cultures.
Indigenous Roots
This organization combines arts and activism to support and cultivate opportunities for Native, Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples in cultural arts. Focusing on modern communities’ need to reconnect with ancestral knowledge systems, Indigenous Roots funds local classes, scholarships, art installations, artist grants, and more for BIPOC community members
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Since 1968, IWGIA has cooperated with Indigenous Peoples' organisations and international institutions to promote recognition and implementation of the rights of Indigenous Peoples. IWGIA works to empower Indigenous Peoples through documentation, capacity development and advocacy on a local, regional and international level. To achieve our mission we provide documentation, and support the advocacy and empowerment of Indigenous Peoples’ organisations and institutions via global partnerships.
Native American Disability Law Center
The Native American Disability Law Center is a private nonprofit organization that advocates for the legal rights of Native Americans with disabilities. Through advocacy and education, the NADLC empowers Native people with disabilities to lead independent lives in their own communities.
Peacekeeper Society
The Peacekeeper Society is a nonprofit located on the Yakama Nation Indian Reservation in Washington State. They mobilize tribal trainers and wisdom keepers from various Indian Nations to help promote positive social change. Absolutely everyone is welcomed regardless of age, color, ethnicity, or enrollment status. The Peacekeepers facilitate drug/alcohol/suicide prevention programs, mentoring workshops, grief recovery support groups and community building activities for families on the Yakama Nation and in the Yakima Valley.
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Calling on modern society to heal and transform the legacies of colonization, genocide, and patriarchy, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust works to care for damaged Native lands, revitalize Native cultures, and return Native land to Native people through public education programs, legislative reform, and rematriation programs.