Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM)/ Concerned Citizens of T'iists'ooz Ndeeshgizh
Navajo Reservation, New Mexico
ENDAUM is a grassroots campaign representing the Dine people of the Eastern Navajo Agency in Crownpoint and Churchrock. Their primary purpose is to stop new uranium mining that would use a chemical solution to extract uranium from a high quality aquifer that supplies drinking water for more than 10,000 residents of the Eastern Navajo Agency.

Eastern Navajo Uranium Workers
Navajo Reservation, New Mexico
This group uses traditional Navajo ceremony and offerings to Mother Earth to ease the discomforts of families and individuals affected by uranium contamination while working to raise awareness about the increased vulnerability of offspring of affected individuals to radiation-related illnesses.

Native American Voters Alliance
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Native American Voters Alliance (NAVA) is a project of the SAGE Council which was developed in 2002. Since then, they have built a voter base of 2,000 Native Americans living in Albuquerque and have had success in getting a large majority of them to vote in recent citywide elections. There are many issues that affect the urban Indian community though they are largely a disenfranchised community from both the urban, tribal and statewide resources. NAVA allows us to strengthen political literacy and civic participation in the context of local, state and federal policy.

Picuris Mine Relief Project
Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico
The Project seeks to protect traditional clay pits that, for more than 500 years, have provided clay for the Picuris Pueblo to make traditional pottery. Through activism and legal action, this project opposes the expansion of an industrial mica mine and mill that negatively impacts the culture, environment and well-being of Picuris Pueblo, a small tribal village.

Pueblo of Zuni
Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico
The Zuni are working to protect Zuni Salt Lake from a proposed strip mine that would disturb burials, shrines and places of worship. The Salt Lake is the residence of their deity the Zuni Salt Mother. Since pre-Columbian times, the Zuni have been making uninterrupted annual pilgrimages to honor her, make offerings, seek her assistance, initiate new members of religious societies, and gather her sacred salt. In 2003, they succeeded in stopping a coal strip mine but now face new obstacles.

SAGE Council
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Council is fighting to preserve the Petroglyph National Monument, which holds over 25,000 ancient Native American rock etchings and is a sacred site to the local tribes. Land developer John Black and Mayor Martin Chavez were attempting to build a $70 million dollar freeway through the Monument in order to provide access to the Quail Ranch, a 6,700- acre development. In November 2003, the Petroglyph National Monument was spared destruction as the hard work of the Council organized Albuquerque citizens to vote down a local bond that would have approved the construction of a six-lane freeway through the sacred site.

Sawmill Advisory Council
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Council is revitalizing and restoring the Old Albuquerque Acequia that will be tied to a marsh area, which will support a small urban sanctuary for wildlife. They are working towards establishing a community trail/park as a buffer between the housing and industrial area.

Traditional Native American Farmers Association
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This association is working to build a support network for traditional farmers living and working in Arizona and New Mexico by holding traditional organic farming workshops, distributing seeds to member farmers, and educating Native youth through planting demonstration gardens and hands-on experience at schools.

Tonantzin Land Institute
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Institute works to raise awareness around the Petroglyph National Monument, therefore, addressing Indigenous human rights, environmental protection and the sustainability of traditional communities.

Tribal Environmental Watch Alliance
Navajo Reservation, Gallup, New Mexico
This non-profit grassroots environmental organization is dedicated to increasing the involvement of Indigenous and Native communities in the decision-making processes on the health risks and the risks posed to our ecosystems from the activities conducted at nuclear research and defense facilities.