Patricia,
As the presidential administration continues to undermine Tribal sovereignty and democratic governance, our relationships with Tribal Nations are even more important.
This year, we worked with Tribes in MN and SD who hold the Pipestone National Monument as a sacred place, to successfully reverse a permitting decision for a pipeline that threatened their historic ceremonial and cultural continuity:
With the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida, we supported their protection of the Big Cypress National Preserve from desecration by the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz.” We kept the pressure on Congress to act to ensure the Tribe’s legal and inherent right to the traditional villages and the ecological health of Big Cypress.
But we have so much more work to do. Trump’s trying to take away communities’ rights to fight pollution. So are some members of Congress: The House just passed a bill that could ram through fossil fuel projects on Indigenous homelands without Tribal input.
The attacks on our sovereignty and on Mother Earth keep coming. So we need to keep expanding our work. With your support, we’ll keep organizing in Indian Country for strong alliances to build a majority movement for environmental justice.
Will you chip in to Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund today to continue our work for Tribal sovereignty, environmental justice, and human rights?
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This year, we hosted a panel at Netroots Nation with a representative of the Miccosukee Tribe, talking about our these interconnected struggles and our partnership:
We talked about working together to achieve a big win earlier this year, protecting access to their homelands and ceremonial grounds in the Big Cypress National Reserve.
We also spoke about how, at the Tribe’s request, we built grassroots pressure and sent hundreds of thousands of messages to state and federal lawmakers to shut down “Alligator Alcatraz.”
Trump and Florida Republicans’ illegal, inhumane, and unsustainable ICE detention center is in the middle of the Miccosukee and Seminole Tribes’ traditional villages. The Tribe’s lawsuit won an important first victory, with a federal judge ordering the site to be shut down.
But while the state appeals, this illegal detention center continues to pollute Mother Earth and harm our immigrant relatives. The fight is not over, and now we’re trying to stop a growing network of internment camps.
As strategic partners in the Coalition for Outdoor Renaming and Education, we also brought together over 100 organizations to push back against the presidential administration’s whitewashing of our history. We won’t be quiet as they remove language about us from public parks and websites.
We’re also affirming our sacred responsibility to protect all our relatives, standing up for immigrants and trans people and demanding the federal government strengthen -- rather than roll back -- crucial environmental protections.
But we need more resources to take on more challenges and build the political power we need to protect our shared communities, our sovereignty, our health, and our climate.
Please donate today to help us build Native political power to stand up to totalitarianism and racism. Together, we’ll continue growing the movement to defend Mother Earth, Tribal sovereignty, and the rights of all.
DONATE TODAYHawwih (thank you) for your support.
As sovereign nations, Tribes have the right to make decisions about policies that impact our lands, resources, and people.
Together, we can win an inclusive multiracial democracy, where Tribal sovereignty is respected and everyone who calls these lands home can thrive.
Judith LeBlanc (Caddo)
Executive Director
BUILD NATIVE POWER
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