Take Action for Indigenous Rights
Take Action
- Attend a Powwow!
- Check out campaigns by National Congress of American Indians.
- Support Indigenous-owned businesses, and visit Indigenous Festival Bazaar in Boston.
- Register to Vote! And vote for politicians who believe in reparations for Indigenous people and communities!
Sign Petitions
- Tell Congress: No Big Oil Bailout!
- Supporting Women and Families
- Upholding Constitutional Rights
- Boycott and Divest
- Greening Standing Rock
- Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
- Help raise awareness and bring justice to the missing and murdered indigenous women
- Stand With Mashpee
Donate
- Native Lives Matter
- Cultural Survival
- Indian Law Resource Center
- Safe Woman, Strong Nation
- Lakota People's Law Project
- Native American Heritage Association
- First Nations Development Institute
- Native American Rights Fund
- Adopt a Native Elder Program
- Survival International
- Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women
- Amnesty International
- The Red Nation
Join Groups
Educate Yourself
Suggested Reading
- Read the full text of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming, by Winona LaDuke
- Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past, by Diane Wilson
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, by Sherman Alexie
- What Does Justice Look Like?, by Waziyatawin
- Native American Today
- Vision Maker Media
- Red Power Media
- Books from Living Justice Press
- Indian Country Today
Movies, Documentaries, and Series
- Native America, series by PBS
- Indigenous Cinema
Podcasts
- This Land
- Native America Calling
- Unreserved
- All My Relations
- Teaching Tolerance, to help teachers and schools educate children
- Media Indigena
- Native Opinion
- Taken
Articles
- The forgotten minority in police shootings, by Elise Hansen from CNN
- Addressing the Epidemic of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, by Carolyn Smith-Morris from Cultural Survival
- Indigenous Knowledge Can Help Solve the Biodiversity Crisis, by Hannah Rundle from Scientific American
- Native Americans Want to be Included in Race Talks, by Associated Press
- Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada, by Jennifer Brant
- What Indigenous Rights Have to Do With Fighting Climate Change, by Andre Pagliarini
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