Penobscot River, Penobscot (Penawahpskewi) Homelands 2022. Used with permission.

Our mission is to move from rhetoric to action, linking dialogue with praxis. Land acknowledgements are not land back. They are initial points of reckoning, of resistance and for activation. Here, we welcome you into this space by highlighting ongoing Indigenous advocacy projects alongside landback movements. Our work is rooted in advocacy, action, and change.

EXAMPLES OF ACTION:

Local Contexts

Local Contexts is an initiative that supports Indigenous and local communities to manage their intellectual and cultural property, cultural heritage, environmental data, and genetic resources within digital environments.

Local Contexts offers digital strategies for Indigenous communities, institutions and organizations, and independent researchers with the Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Biocultural (BC) Labels and Notices. Together they function to advance aspirations for Indigenous data sovereignty and Indigenous innovation.

DECOLONIZATION RIDER

"Emily Johnson / Catalyst requires all Presenters and all Presenting Partners collaborating on the presentation and development of [TITLE OF WORK] to comply with Indigenous Protocol and acknowledgement (i.e. Land Acknowledgment or Embodied Land Acknowledgment) of its host Nation in all announcements and press that includes [TITLE OF WORK] or reference thereof."

Find the Decolonization Rider here.

Makoce Ikikcupi

"Makoce Ikikcupi, meaning Land Recovery, is a project of Reparative Justice on Dakota land in Minisota Makoce (Minnesota). The Makoce Ikikcupi project seeks to bring some of our relatives home, re-establish our spiritual and physical relationship with our homeland, and ensure the ongoing existence of our People. Our cultural survival depends on it."

CONAIE

La Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador, CONAIE es una organización que aglutina en su seno a las Nacionalidades, Pueblos, comunidades, Centros y Asociaciones indígenas del Ecuador.

Indigenous Climate Action

Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) is an Indigenous-led organization guided by a diverse group of Indigenous knowledge keepers, water protectors and land defenders from communities and regions across the country. We believe that Indigenous Peoples’ rights and knowledge systems are critical to developing solutions to the climate crisis and achieving climate justice.

Find out more about their work here.

NDN Collective

NDN Collective is an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power. Through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grantmaking, capacity-building and narrative change, we are creating sustainable solutions on Indigenous terms.

Creating New Futures

Working Guidelines for Ethics & Equity in Presenting Dance & Performance

Find the guidelines and more here.

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people.