Happy Hump Day, Shit Givers.
Monday is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the US, and we’re just coming off of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, so today felt like as good a time as any to talk about land back, sovereignty, and the Indigenous-led organizations continuing the work of land stewardship by Indigenous people since time immemorial.
If you aren’t Indigenous, today’s issue is full of ways you can actively participate in reconciliation!
Let’s go.
— Willow
APL Positions covered this week:
🌲 Environmental justice screen for permits (learn more)
☀ Universal electricity access via distributed renewables (learn more)
👉️ NEW: Discover all of our APL Positions here.
Land back
Land back isn’t symbolic. It means tribes and Indigenous-led land trusts literally getting title back to the land that was taken from them.
Here’s what you can do:
Support the return of tribal lands to Indigenous communities with the Indian Land Tenure Foundation (go).
Support Indigenous land return through this Bay Area land trust with Sogorea Te’ Land Trust (go).
Support Indigenous-led efforts to build power and self-determination with NDN Collective (go).
Help preserve Indigenous lands and sacred sites through Indigenous leadership with the Native American Land Conservancy (go).
Self-determination, not permission
Sovereignty means tribal nations get to govern themselves and plan for their own futures, including the climate risks nobody else is going to prioritize for them.
Here’s what you can do:
Give Indigenous communities the tools they need to mitigate climate risks with the Tribal Climate Health Assurance Act (go).
Help Indigenous organizers fight for sovereignty and self-determination with the Native Organizers Alliance (go).
Support Indigenous-led solutions through funding and knowledge with the First Nations Development Institute (go).
Advance Indigenous-led climate planning and tribal climate resilience with the National Congress of American Indians (go).
Protecting what’s left
A lot of what’s still wild, still clean, and still standing is that way because Indigenous nations have been fighting to keep it that way, often against the same industries and agencies that took the land in the first place.
Here’s what you can do:
Defend Indigenous rights and protect land, water, and life with the Indigenous Environmental Network (go).
Support Indigenous-led solutions to the climate crisis with Indigenous Climate Action (go).
Bring clean, off-grid solar power to Navajo and Hopi families with Native Renewables (go).
Help protect Yellowstone’s last wild buffalo herds with the Buffalo Field Campaign (go).
Health, food, and the right to both
Some of the clearest, most everyday harms of colonization show up in health outcomes and access to traditional food systems. And of course, some of the clearest fixes are Indigenous-led, too.
Here’s what you can do:
Support Indigenous youth through farming, food, and tradition with Dream of Wild Health (go).
Bring clean, safe water to Indigenous communities across Canada with Water First (go).
Support Indigenous-led genetics research that puts equity first with the Native BioData Consortium (go).
Support access to reproductive care in Arizona with Indigenous Women Rising (go).
That’s it for this week.
Thank you — as always — for giving a shit.
— Willow
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