Our Programs

Honor the Earth is building toolkits for Native communities to use in defending their homelands and building a better world for future generations. We recognize that grassroots community members embedded in their local communities are the best leaders of their respective struggles. 

Our training hub is where we help develop organizing and resiliency skills that can be cultivated, invested, and fostered in Indigenous communities around Turtle Island. The training hub allows us to train the next generations of Indigenous leaders, who will ultimately carry on Native struggles for sovereignty and Land Back. In the future, the training hub will also include public resources to educate Indigenous communities on skills like digital security, food harvesting, CPR and more.

Honor the Earth provides resources to Indigenous communities and organizers across Turtle Island. This is currently by referral only.

Indigenous Sovereignty is the foundation of Honor the Earth’s politics. Treaties signed between Indigenous Nations and colonial governments are one of our strongest tools to uphold the remaining rights we have. 

At the same time, we recognize that not all Indigenous Nations signed or ratified treaties. We also recognize that there are Indigenous Nations that have never entered into agreements with any  colonial government to retain their inherent rights and remain resolute in that stance. Lastly, there are Indigenous Nations who have signed treaties with each other. Our goal is to educate a new generation of Indigenous organizers about the power, nuances, and concerns around treaties. 

In the past year, we have supported several Palestine Solidarity resolutions in treaty organizing spaces. On December 14, 2023, the Oceti Sakowin Treaty Council unanimously passed a sweeping measure in support of the Palestinian people of Gaza and called for an immediate ceasefire. In the Resolution, the Treaty Council, representing all of the approximately 49 Tribes within the Oceti Sakowin territory, cited their peoples’ own historical genocidal experience at the hands of occupying U.S. forces, and recognized the Israeli government as engaging in genocide and ethnic cleansing in a similar fashion, in real time. Honor the Earth staff provided on the ground and narrative support to organizers advocating for this resolution and others.

We know that the UN will not set us free, which is why our focus at the UN is on changing the battlefield and simultaneously utilizing every possible avenue available to change the material conditions of our people. 

Our work at the UN is not done in isolation as we know our efforts are futile without concurrently supporting Indigenous communities on Turtle Island and across Unci Maka to access their basic needs. This year, Honor the Earth has attended UN assemblies in New York, Kenya, and Ottawa. 

At the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Honor supported Global Indigenous Youth in calling on the Permanent Forum to convene an Expert Working Group that explicitly connects the impacts of ethnic cleansing and forced removal of Indigenous Youth and Peoples from their ancestral homelands to the worsening climate crisis. 

A secondary goal of our UN work is educating and teaching Indigenous communities about the realm of international law and translating international policy and politics to our communities on the ground.