Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment
Akwesasne Mohawk Reservation, New York
The Task Force is a tribal organization working to pressure federal agencies and General Motors to clean up a toxic PCB superfund site that borders the Akwesasne Mohawk reservation. This organization has conducted thorough environmental justice and scientific studies on the PCB issue and is pursuing a number of legal strategies to obtain remediation of the site.

Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone National Park, Montana
Buffalo Nations is working on the front lines at Yellowstone National Park to protect the last remaining wild buffalo herd from slaughter. Thousands of buffalo have been shot as they wander outside the park boundary in search of winter food. The group is organizing on local, state and national levels to stop this senseless killing.

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.

Dine; CARE (Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment)
Navajo Reservation, Arizona
Seeking to protect their land and lifeways, Dine; CARE has battled various environmental injustices that range from fighting incinerator proposals for Dalton Pass to preserving the trees of the Chuska Mountains to successfully seeking real compensation for Navajo families impacted by uranium mining.

Eastern Cherokee Defense League
Cherokee Territory, North Carolina
This grassroots group is organizing to stop Champion Pulp and Paper Mill's contamination of ancestral lands and waters of the Pigeon River with dioxin. The Mill is up for sale and the Defense League, along with other environmental groups, is working to insure the new purchasers comply with stricter standards for dioxin emissions.

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.

Grassy Narrows Band
Grassy Narrows Reserve, Ontario, Canada
The 300 people of the remote Grassy Narrows Reserve face clear-cutting, hydro-dam projects, mercury contamination and the threat of a high level nuclear waste dump on their land. The Band is working to educate community members and the public about the dangers of this dump, networking with other impacted Native communities and developing organizing skills and infrastructure to fight this battle.

Independent Traditional Seminole Nation
Seminole Territory, Florida
The Seminole community works to oppose zoning restrictions on their traditional housing and seeks the return of land in order to continue to live a traditional life in the center of the Florida Everglades.

Indigenous Resistance Against Tribal Extinction (IRATE)
Penobscot Nation, Maine
This grassroots Penobscot group is working on a community level to educate and increase participation by tribal members in the struggle to stop the Lincoln Mill from contaminating the Penobscot Nation with dioxin.

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.

Ohngo Gaudadeh Devia (OGD)
Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, Utah
OGD is a grassroots group working to stop a coalition of 11 utilities (Private Fuel Storage) from siting a high level nuclear waste dump on their lands. OGD is preparing a community organizing strategy to increase visibility and opposition to the dump.

Penobscot Native DNR
Penobscot Nation, Maine
This tribal organization is working through government channels and litigation to stop the Lincoln Pulp and Paper Mill from contaminating Penobscot waters, fish and people with dioxin. The tribe is developing a joint organizing strategy with the grassroots group IRATE to generate community awareness and involvement in the issue.

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.

Save Ward Valley
Needles, California
Native American Colorado River tribes, including Fort Mojave, Chemehuevi, Cocopah and Quechan, are fighting a low level radioactive waste dump at Ward Valley proposed by the State of California and nuclear dump company US Ecology. This nuclear waste dumpsite would desecrate sacred lands, destroy critical habitat for the endangered desert tortoise and potentially contaminate the Colorado River, a source of water for 22 million people.

Tonatierra
Phoenix, Arizona
Tonatierra is a grassroots Indigenous-Xicano-Mexicano community development group working to strengthen and recover traditional forms of social and political organization. Tonatierra focuses on issues of the environment, education, human rights and economic self-sufficiency in the southwest, Mexico and the southern hemisphere.

White Clay Society
Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana
Massive heap leach gold mining in the Little Rocky Mountains has contaminated the adjacent Fort Belknap community with cyanide, and lopped off the top of one of their sacred mountains. White Clay Society, a grassroots Fort Belknap group, is initiating a push to get the Little Rocky Mountains back and restore their land base.