IEN’s current finance divestment program is targeting the following sectors: Corporate finance Insurance coverage Asset Management The position is a full-time salaried position. This position will be remote-based. All new employees are subject to a 90-day probationary period, whereupon completion …
Job Opening: Indigenous Environmental Network Divestment Campaigner More >
Larry Curley is the executive director of the National Indian Council on Aging and a member of the Navajo Nation with over 40 years of experience working in the aging and healthcare fields. He has worked with Congress, other branches …
Let’s talk about the insurrection at the United States Capitol. Although we can sympathize with the trauma of the event, it is difficult for us to be completely shocked. For years Trump has instigated, fueled and motivated his white supremacist …
Dear NICOA friends: We are down to the final countdown of 2020 and excited for the promise of a new year and the journey that awaits us. Here at the National Indian Council on Aging (NICOA) we are thankful and …
You may have heard of the National Indian Council on Aging’s (NICOA) new documentary series that begins production in 2021. This 15-film series being produced with Keystones Oral Histories, a fellow 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, will also develop a core …
December 27, 2020Categories: Uncategorized When you are considering giving to a charity, you want to be sure that your dollars will make a difference. It can be confusing and overwhelming figuring out which nonprofits are legitimate and will best use …
2020 was defined by fundamental challenges and transformations. We’ve all had to adapt and create a new way of living and connecting. Most of us could have never imagined that caring for one another would involve so much isolation. It …
By Amazon Watch In our Complicity in Destruction III report published in October 2020, the Association of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples (APIB) alongside Amazon Watch, exposed the pressure that large mining companies have exerted on Indigenous lands (TIs), fueled by Bolsonaro’s …
“As my physical world has shrunk, the online world has expanded by multiples of thousands. And once I get through this, I have no doubt that Chevron will be paying this judgment such that thousands of Indigenous people and rural …
What Do You Get When You Beat Chevron in Court? 500 Days of Home Detention More >
December 22, 2020Categories: Civil Rights (Voting Rights, Juries, Census) From the statement released December 22, 2020, by the Voting Rights Working Group: Latino, Black, Asian American, and Native American voters played a decisive role in last month’s presidential election and …
Voting Rights Working Group on Election Protection Litigation More >
Dear NICOA friends: Thankfully, 2020 is almost behind us. With that in mind, we are looking forward to a fresh start in 2021 on new projects and events that were previously restrained by COVID-19. In 2021, in addition to our …
BY AMAZON WATCH Eight Indigenous leaders from Ucayali and Huánuco have received threats for months from narco-trafficking mafias, land invaders, and illegal loggers. Several days ago, they were in Lima demanding protection from the Peruvian government. They fear for their …
December 16, 2020Categories: Environmental Protection (Climate Change), Hunting and Fishing Rights, Native Lands On December 15, 2020, the Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government, Arctic Village Council, and Venetie Village Council, sought a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction …
Gwich’in Tribes Seek to Stop the Illegal Giveaway of Arctic Refuge Lands More >
March 24, 1989 is a day that changed the course of my life forever. I was a full time commercial fisherman when the Exxon Valdez tanker hit Bligh Reef and spewed tens of millions of gallons of crude oil …
Healing Our Waters, Healing Ourselves Through a Sustainable Economy More >
Hadih, Dene Za Tsekey Za. Greetings, my respected relatives; greetings, my respected friends. Paul Lacerte Sadnee. My Name is Paul Lacerte. Gilam Giloh Sadnee. My traditional name is Gilam Giloh. Si gunna Luksil Yoo Injan Yinka Dene Keyoh. I am …
Indigenomics: Harnessing the Power of Our Communities More >
Over the past year, Bolsonaro’s government failed once again to present a plan to curb deforestation and instead further emboldened land grabbers to destroy the rainforest. Evidence points to the greatest loss of trees in the Brazilian Amazon since 2008. …
December 9, 2020Categories: Environmental Protection (Climate Change), Hunting and Fishing Rights, Native Lands, Religious Rights (Religious Freedom, Sacred Places, Repatriation) The Michigan Public Service Commission released a decision on December 9, announcing that the revocation of the 1953 easement for a problem-plagued …
Karen Adair Edwards is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She currently serves as manager of the Native Bank On ONAC initiative, for the Oklahoma Native Assets Coalition, Inc. (ONAC). From 1994 to 2006, Ms. Edwards led several …
December 8, 2020Categories: Tribal Sovereignty and Jurisdiction The Native American Rights Fund has helped to preserve the right of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians to run their Tribal fisheries without interference from the federal government. On Friday, December …
Red Lake Nation Fisheries Win Helps Preserve Tribal Sovereignty More >
Amazon Watch has worked in solidarity with the Shuar Arutam people in the defense and protection of their rights since 2016. That year, the Chinese mining company EXSA, was responsible for the forced eviction of the Nankits community to build …
The Shuar Arutam Will Not Be Deterred and Have Already Decided: No Mining! More >
Billie Tohee, of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma and the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, has been serving on the National Indian Council on Aging’s (NICOA) board of directors for the past two years. She remembers attending the NICOA …
December 2, 2020Categories: Environmental Protection (Climate Change), Native Lands, Religious Rights (Religious Freedom, Sacred Places, Repatriation), Tribal Sovereignty and Jurisdiction At US District Court, Great Falls MT, September 2019. On November 17, 2020, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Fort …
Rosebud Sioux and Fort Belknap Continue KXL Fight to Protect Land and People More >
Amazon Watch For more information, contact: Ada Recinos: ada@amazonwatch.org or +1.510.473.7542 (US)Camila Rossi: crossi@amazonwatch.com or +55.11.98152.8476 (Brazil) Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased 9.5 percent between August 1, 2019 and July 31, 2020, according to data released today by the …
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon Spikes to 12-Year High More >
November 30, 2020Categories: Uncategorized #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving and unity that follows the Black Friday’s and Cyber Monday’s consumer focus. This year it will take place on December 1, 2020. Be a part of the #GivingTuesday community …
Tribes Struggle to Receive COVID-19 Data As American Indian and other communities of color bear the brunt of COVID-19, tribal epidemiologists across the U.S. are struggling to access potentially life-saving information: several of the 12 tribal epidemiology centers have reported poor responses …
November 25, 2020Categories: Uncategorized As we celebrate this harvest festival, let us be thankful for our friends, relatives, the food we have, and the roofs over our heads. Let us give thanks every day as we greet the morning star …
“We Indigenous women have songs that save us, that protect us, so that there is not so much violence and so that we do not suffer so much. We have sacred songs to harmonize. To sweeten the hearts of angry …
November 25, 2020Categories: Environmental Protection (Climate Change), Hunting and Fishing Rights United Tribes of Bristol Bay Deputy Director Lindsay Layland speaks at October 9, 2019, press conference in Anchorage, Alaska. From our tribal clients: Bristol Bay Tribes and others are …
November 21, 2020Categories: Civil Rights (Voting Rights, Juries, Census) This week, NARF gave the US Supreme Court a little history lesson, pushing back against those who argue that unauthorized immigrants in the United States are not even “persons.” The case …
Amazon Watch’s Executive Director, Leila Salazar-López, joined allied human rights organizations to testify today to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on the status of the human rights of Indigenous peoples in the Americas. She spoke specifically to the situation …
Amazon Watch Testifies to U.S. Congress on Indigenous Rights in the Amazon More >