Native Organizers Alliance - Build Native political power in defense of our rights, traditions, sovereignty, and Mother Earth.

 

Patricia, Native peoples have been organizing since dirt. How we’ve built community, protected our cultures, and defended our land has changed over time. But it's always remained rooted in our cultural values and responsibility to our descendants. We’ve responded to living in relation with the natural world with consensus-based self-governance and by negotiating and signing treaties with multiple Nations including the United States government, struggling to stay alive for over one hundred years. Forced into cities and family separation, we organized in urban intertribal realities from the late 1800s. In the 1970s, we began grassroots organizing like the youth group, United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY), and running for -- and winning -- public office, leading the environmental justice movement, employing our spiritual practices, and forming prayer camps to teach people Mother Earth based values. The political terrain has changed, but the awareness of our legal, moral, and inherent rights remains the heart of our resistance. Whether it's through our national, regional, and local Native organizing trainings; through our year-round support of grassroots activism; or our efforts to contribute to long term voter engagement, we're nurturing the growth of Native political power for today on behalf of the next seven generations. Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, a day to support impactful nonprofits that are doing critical work as the federal structures are destroyed. Can you help Native Organizers Alliance get a head start on Giving Tuesday by making a tax-deductible donation today? DONATE Last month, Tribal and Native leaders traveled from 18 different states to come together at our national training in Washington State to resist, reclaim, and rebuild our communities in the face of relentless attacks. Our trainings are focused on the traditional values that have brought our communities into relationship with all living beings and Mother Earth since the beginning of time. Those values guide our collective belief in kinship and reciprocity as collective responsibilities, how we build community with our family and kin and beyond to stand together in campaigns and movements, helping maximize the power of Tribal Nations and our grassroots communities to achieve a better quality of life for all who live on Turtle Island. Strategy and tactics change with time and in response to conditions, but our goals remain grounded in belief systems that prioritize love, discipline, and respect for humanity and the world we live in. Native Organizers Alliance is organizing a dynamic network of leaders and organizers who are fulfilling our original instructions of “being good relatives” to all communities suffering due to the rise of authoritarianism. Make a Giving Tuesday donation today to support our critical year-round organizing so we can keep building Native political power to protect civil rights, democratic processes, and human rights for all. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your secure donation will go through immediately: Chip in $25 now Chip in $75 now Chip in $150 now Chip in $300 now Chip in $500 now other amount Hawwih (thank you) for supporting the work of organizing Native grassroots political power. Judith LeBlanc (Caddo) Executive Director BUILD NATIVE POWER

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