Alma de Mujer Center for Social Change
Austin, Texas
A project of the Indigenous Women's Network, Alma de Mujer is a retreat center that models sustainable community restoration. Programs include sustainable economies, health education, organic gardening, cultural art projects and environmental education.

California Indian Basketweavers Association (CIBA)
Nevada City, California
CIBA works to monitor pesticide use, public and private land use, and to encourage management practices that protect and conserve traditional Native resources while providing a healthy physical, social, spiritual and economic environment for basketweavers who will pass on their tradition to the next generation.

Casa de Colores
Austin, Texas
Casa de Colores organizes a Youth and Elders Gathering to create a sense of cultural pride in youth and pass traditional knowledge, strength and wisdom from elders to youth.

Citizen Alert Native American Program (CANAP)
Western Shoshone Territory, Nevada
This Western Shoshone group is focused on community, regional and national organizing to prevent Yucca Mountain--a sacred site within their territories-- from becoming a radioactive waste dump. At the same time, CANAP is working to assess and restore the health of the community after decades of nuclear bombing within the Nevada Test Site.

Community Toxics Investigative Advocacy Project
Anchorage, Alaska
The Community Toxics Investigative and Advocacy Project supports Alaskan Native communities that battle toxic contamination as a result of oil and military exploitation by providing training, technical assistance, scientific sampling and advocacy.

Dineh Alliance
Dine Reservation, Arizona
Dineh Alliance is the grassroots political arm of the Sovereign Dineh Nation, the Council of Elders of Big Mountain, Arizona. This group is organizing to stop energy resource development in the area, particularly opposing the Peabody Western Coal Company's Kayenta mine permit. The group was formed in 1979 in response to the environmental, economic and political oppression suffered by the Big Mountain Dine people.

Euchees United Cultural Historical Educational Effort (EUCHEE)
Okmulgee, Sapulpa, Oklahoma
The Euchee are working to restore their culture, language and traditional practices. One project underway is the production of a photo-journal that includes pictures from the 1900's to the present and incorporates the use of the Euchee (Yuchi) language.

Eyak Preservation Council (formerly Eyak Rainforest Preservation Fund)
Native Community of Eyak, Alaska
A grassroots organization of local Native people, fishers, and world citizens committed to protecting Indigenous People's rights, culture, heritage, language and ancestral lands through ecological protection and sustainable economic development. The group has worked diligently on the Exxon Valdez oil spill clean up and to stop clear cutting in Prince William Sound.

First Environment Project
Akwesasne Mohawk Reservation, New York
This grassroots Mohawk group at Akwesasne is working to pressure the Environmental Protection Agency and General Motors to clean up a polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) Superfund Site adjacent to their lands. The Project's philosophy that "Women Are The First Environment", guides their community work in conducting studies and increasing women's awareness of the health threats posed by PCBs.

Hia-Ced O'odham Alliance
Tohono O'odan, Arizona
The Alliance is working to protect burial grounds that are being claimed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The BLM has listed the grounds as "disposable lands."

Hopi Foundation
Hopi Reservation, Arizona
The Hopi Foundation integrates traditional Hopi values and cultural practices with contemporary alternative technology, such as solar energy. One project of the Foundation is to restore and rehabilitate Hopi Piki houses within the village of Upper Moeukopi Piki houses have deteriorated over the passage of time. This in turn has diminished the practice of making Hopi Piki bread which is essential to the cultural lifeway of the Hopi.

Innu Tipatshimun Mashineikantshiuap Resource Center
Innu Nation Quebec, Canada
The Innu Nation is organizing in opposition to low level military flight testing across their territory and the devestation of their lands by hydroelectric development, logging and an unprecedented level of mineral exploration.

Ka Lahui Hawai'i
Hilo, Hawaii
This group is working to restore traditional governance through a constitutional convention for a state created Hawaiian Nation. Ka Lahui Hawai'i is the evolutionary product of three generations of Hawaiians who have sought to regain their Native lands and to re-establish themselves as a self-governing people. Its government structure is democratic in nature, its political process is an elective process, and its cultural process is Lokahi.

The Mankiller Drum Group
Berkeley, California
The group provides training and technical assistance to Native grassroots organizations addressing women's issues and conducts public education on local and national issues affecting women.

Midwest Treaty Network
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
The Midwest Treaty Network formed in 1989 in response to violence and racism against Anishinaabe attempting to exercise court-affirmed hunting and fishing rights in northern Wisconsin. This grassroots organization that has effectively coordinated state, national and international support for Native sovereignty and treaty rights. The Network educates the public about treaties, resource development, racism and environmental threats.

National Center for Democracy, Liberty and Justice (NCDLJ)
Los Angeles, California
The NCDM advocates and organizes on behalf of the Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico, in their struggle for autonomy. The organization is involved in rebuilding Zapatista communities and creating broader public awareness about the profound linkages between conditions in Mexico and the US.

National Environmental Coalition of Native Americans (NECONA)
Sac & Fox Territory Prague, Oklahoma
NECONA is a grassroots group that provides education and training for Native and non-Native communities to establish Nuclear Free Zones. The group works on a national level to stop nuclear waste from being stored on Native lands.

Native Action
Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Montana
Native Action offers a model for reservation empowerment and is successfully setting national precedents on environmental justice, economic development, and social justice issues. So far they have led a successful campaign to stop gold mining in the sacred Sweet Grass Hills of Montana. They are also fighting a pitched battle that has lasted over three decades to protect their ancestral homeland from the devastating impacts of strip mining and coal methane development.

Prairie Island Coalition (PIC)
Lake Elmo, Minnesota
This group has taken a leadership role on work to shut down the Prairie Island, Minnesota nuclear waste dump and power plants. The plants and the dump are immediately adjacent to the Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota Community. Both are operated by Northern States Power Company, the utility leading the Nuclear Waste Policy Act lobby effort and spearheading the Private Fuel Storage consortium.

Red Roots Community Theatre
Manitoba, Canada
Red Roots Community Theatre has identified theatre as the vehicle to communicate with the larger Native and non-Native community. The theater will produce pieces that depict the lives of Native people and struggles around the environment, culture, and colonialism.

Sawmill Advisory Council (SAC)
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Sawmill Advisory Council is revitalizing and restoring the Old Albuquerque Acequia and will establish a community trail/park as a buffer between the housing and industrial area. This Acequia will be tied to a marsh area which will support a small urban sanctuary for wildlife.

SEVA Foundation
Berkeley, California
Seva is working with the people of Altamirano region of Chiapas to support the community in restoring self-sustaining ways of life. Seva is providing training in decision-making skills, organic agriculture, beekeeping and honey-making, carpentry, animal care and other pertinent areas.

Sokaogon Defense Committee
Mole Lake Sokaogon Reservation, Wisconsin
This community opposes Exxon-Rio Algom, Ltd.'s proposal to open a copper-zinc mine near the Mole Lake Reservation. They seek to expand local, regional and national grassroots support networks by intensifying public education efforts around the mine.

Solidarity Foundation
New York, New York
Solidarity Foundation provides research and technical assistance on indigenous issues to indigenous groups. One project of the Foundation is the production of an Indigenous Language Report to address the serious decine in Indigenous language use in the US. More than 1/3 of the approximately 225 Indian languages and dialects are on the verge of extinction.