The environmental issues discussed in this book represent struggles at the heart of Native America. Developing support for these and other Native environmental issues is the mission of Honor the Earth, a continental foundation and advocacy organization founded by the author, Winona LaDuke, who serves as the organization’s Program Director.
Honor the Earth provides both funding and public support to grassroots Native environmental initiatives. Sponsored by three national Native groups—the Indigenous Environmental Network, Indigenous Women’s Network and the Seventh Generation Fund—Honor the Earth represents a unified effort in Native America to increase financial and political resources available to communities on the front lines of environmental protection.
Since its founding in 1993, Honor the Earth has raised and distributed half a million dollars to 85 Native groups. At the same time, the organization has significantly increased visibility for Native environmental issues and developed a broad base of support through strategic organizing campaigns, high-impact media work and music events.
Honor the Earth’s Programs center around Environmental Justice (the defense of homelands) and Indigenous Knowledge (pro-active initiatives aimed at cultural and ecological restoration). Honor the Earth has also developed two Strategic Initiatives: the Nuclear Waste and Native Lands Initiative, which focuses on the historic injustice of energy policy while promoting a safe energy future and the Indigenous Buffalo Commons Initiative, which works to protect and restore buffalo on the Great Plains. These Initiatives represent focused efforts to raise consciousness, create dialogue and impact public policy long-term around these issues.
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Honor the Earth
A Project of the Tides Center
PO Box 75423
St. Paul, MN 55175
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