Buffalo Gap Land Rescue
Louisville, Colorado
Honor the Earth provided seed money to develop a set of educational events on the Yellowstone buffalo issue in the Denver area bringing together a host of Native, environmental, animal rights and faith-based groups around this issue, planned for mid-November 1999. The purpose of this grant was to restore buffalo knowledge and buffalo at a historic jump site in Wyoming, and organize a set of educational events regionally on the relationship between buffalo, Native peoples and Great Plains ecology.

California Indian Basketweavers Association (CIBA)
Nevada City, California
CIBA works to monitor pesticide use, public and private land use, and to encourage management practices that protect and conserve traditional Native resources while providing a healthy physical, social, spiritual and economic environment for basketweavers who will pass on their tradition to the next generation.

Columbia River Economic and Environmental Education Project
Celio, Oregon
Funding will assist in ongoing work to educate the community around radioactive contamination resulting from the Hanford facility, and develop a Northwest Nuclear Network of tribal peoples impacted by radioactive contamination.

Dawn Watch
Spokane Reservation, Washington
For grassroots organizing to build opposition to a stop the Dawn Mining Company from converting a defunct uranium mill site adjacent to the Spokane Reservation into a repository for radioactive waste. The project would set a dangerous precedent for many Native and non-Native uranium producing communities where clean up has not even begun.

Eagle Nest Development Corporation
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
Funding will assist in purchasing a 7,000 acre ranch for sale by non-Indian interests on the Pine Ridge Reservation, which the Project will restore to indigenous prairie. The Eagle Nest Project has woven together a collection of allotted and privately held land into a 2,400 acre pasture for their initial 50 head of buffalo.

Indigenous Environmental Network Great Lakes Regional
Bemidji, Minnesota
To gather, translate and publish information from Anishinaabe elders on the cultural, spiritual and ecological significance of the wolf in order to give the Anishinaabe a voice in protecting the wolf as an endangered species.

Knife Chief Buffalo Project
Pine Ridge Reservation South Dakota
Funding will be used to complete fencing of 1,280-acre range unit on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The Project, directed by a local committee of community people, envisions restoring the bond between the Lakota people and the Buffalo Nation.

Neyaashiinigmiing Kwe
Cape Croker Reserve, Ontario, Canada
To hold a gathering of Anishinaabe women from the Cape Croker Reserve to develop a position statement and strategize resistance to the Bruce Nuclear Power Plant and utility plans for nuclear waste storage.

Pribil of Islands Stewardship Program
Pribilof Islands, Alaska
Funding will support a Marine Messenger Program for Aleut youth participating in the Fur Seals Disentanglement Team, a group that disentangles fur seals along the coast. The project restores the relationship to seals in Aleut culture and encourages environmental responsibility for the Bering Sea ecosystem.

Seventh Generation Bison Coop
Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota
Funding will support Phase II of the Coop's development plan to build a corral system and then complete the remainder of the 1,400 acre range unit on the Standing Rock Lakota Reservation. This year's programming also includes a summer youth camp that will provide hands-on experience in bison management and the spiritual importance of the animal.

Shundahai Network
Las Vegas, Nevada
To support the annual "Yucca Mountain Spring Gathering", a convening of Native Nations to discuss the social, economic, health, political, and legal issues facing the Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute people today. Particular attention will be focused on the characterization of Yucca Mountain as the site for America's high level nuclear waste.The Shundahai Network is dedicated to breaking the nuclear chain by building alliances with indigenous communities and environmental, peace and human rights movements. They seek to abolish all nuclear weapons and an end to nuclear testing. They advocate phasing out nuclear energy and ending the transportation and dumping of nuclear waste and promote the principles of Environmental Justice and strive to insure that indigenous voices are heard in the movement to influence U.S. Nuclear and environmental policies.