Attune to your heartbreak amidst climate collapse and systemic unraveling – where are you called to bring your gifts to support land healing and justice? Perhaps in the place where you live, or in a place faraway facing immediate harm, or leveraging your power and influence in your country, industry, or craft. We each have a role to play. 

Around the world, Indigenous Peoples and local communities have long protected lands and waters in reciprocity with the Earth, rooted in culture, ways of knowing, abundance and care. Supporting Indigenous-led stewardship is an act of repair and is more impactful toward protecting ecosystems and future generations. 

• Join efforts to protect the land and ocean, keep oil in the ground, build regenerative agriculture practices, practice seed saving, and follow the lead of the most impacted communities
• Be part of the Just Transition toward renewable energy, a solidarity economy, and thriving way of life
• Support Indigenous-led conservation efforts such as: 
  • Prescribed burns such as the work of the Indigenous Peoples Burning Network is revitalizing traditional fire culture 
  • Dam removals such as the recent Klamath river project, which Indigenous teens shared was an “answer to our ancestors’ prayers” 
  • Forest rights and land management, such as the protection of the Great Bear Rainforest and Sea, one of the most productive cold-water ecosystems in the world, drawing together endangered whales, halibut, abalone and, yes, bears 

• Connect, support, and learn from organizations such as these 

• • Indigenous Climate Action – Centering Indigenous Peoples’ rights and knowledge systems in developing solutions to the climate crisis

• • Global Rights of Nature Alliance – Network committed to implementing legal systems recognizing the Rights of Nature.
  • Indigenous Environmental Network – Addressing environmental and economic justice through education and political activism
  • Women’s Environment and Climate Action Network (WECAN) – Rising for climate justice & community-led solutions
  • Seeding Sovereignty – female indigenous-led organization working at the intersection of conservation and human rights
  • Pachamama Alliance – Training to regenerate the planet’s ecosystems and restore right relationship, with roots in the Amazon rainforest
  • Indigenous Led & Buffalo Beyond Borders – Healing land, people and all our relations, rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing
  • RAD Network – Working toward decolonized and regenerative Indigenous-led conservation in Canada 
  • Honor the Earth – Offers financial and organizing support to grassroots Native environmental organizations throughout the US 
  • Gathering Voices Society – Catalyzing Indigenous-led environmental stewardship in Canada 
  • Bioneers – Offering an annual environmental conference, online courses, and bringing Indigenous perspectives to global conversations 
  • Native Seeds/SEARCH – Stewarding the seeds of the desert Southwest and Mexico
  • Kanyon Konsulting LLC – Corporate consulting to strategize for future generations

• Learn more 

• • Remembering Nature’s Ways – SAND community gathering with Darcia Narvaez 
  • Land, Lineage & Resisting Genocide – SAND community gathering with Layla K. Feghali, Taya Mâ Shere & Daniel Foor
  • Our Living Waters: Right Relations – Declaration on undoing the colonial relations at the root of the climate crisis
  • Nature United: Indigenous Right Relations – A strategy and action plan example from one of the largest conservation organizations
  • Heirs to Our Oceans (H2OO) – Globally preparing youth for leadership that uplifts our natural world and one another
  • “The Collective Conservation of Indigenous Land Is Everyone’s Responsibility:” As Indigenous people, we are expected to educate our white counterparts — and it takes a mental toll,” published in Huffington Post 
  • Who Has the Right to Decide What Happens on Indigenous Lands? published in Climate News, on how Indigenous communities are fighting to protect their sovereignty and keep oil in the ground

“To us, the land is not something different from us. The land is me.

The land is us. And we are the land.” —Samwel Leiyian Nangiria, Maasai Activist