Allies of the Lakota
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
Allies of the Lakota is a joint campaign of two grassroots organizations: Porcupine Clinic Health Board and KILI Radio and the vehicle by which both organizations raise needed funds to carry out their missions. KILI and Porcupine Clinic are grassroots, community controlled highly successful organizations on the Pine Ridge Reservation that serve the communication and health needs of the Lakota Nation.

Anishinaabe Niijii
Red Cliff and Lac Courte O'reilles Reservations, Wisconsin
For the Walk for the Seventh Generation
The Walk for the Seventh Generation is a 3 month, 1,4000 walk around Lake Superior envisioned to raise awareness and build community and movement to protect the Great Lakes ecosystem for the coming generations. The Walk will be coordinated by Anishinaabe Niiji, a regional Native, non-Native environmental alliance with support from a host of community based groups. Funding will support efforts to promote the walk and help seed this undertaking.

Bison Land Resource Center
Flandreau, South Dakota
The Bison Land Resource Center is a community-based, Native controlled environmental information and networking organization whose efforts are focused on the northern plains region, particularly South Dakota, its nine contiguous reservations and the Black Hills ecosystem. The prairie ecosystems that once covered this region, part of the Buffalo Commons, are the most threatened ecosystems in the United States, covering only one percent of their former range.

Brave Heart Society
Yankton Sioux Reservation, South Dakota
Cante Ohitika Okodakiciye works to restore a feeling of holiness in each member of the Yankton Community thus restoring them to a place of "ikce wicasa/winyan," or a sacred human being who can honor the earth. The program includes a multipurpose center, Brave Heart Lodge, which provides a camp circle that teaches traditional ways, the Dakota language, and respect for the role of women and their families. The Society also works to promote leadership among Native women and girls.

Buffalo Nations/Tatanka Oyate
Rapid City, South Dakota
Buffalo Nations has been actively working to stop the slaughter of buffalo in Yellowstone National Park for three years. The group is playing a lead role in organizing tribal governments to demand more meaningful and effective consultation between the tribes and the U.S. government on the issue. The federal government, in conjunction with Montana state agencies, issued a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the future management of the Yellowstone herd in August of 1998. When finalized, the plan will set bison policy for 15 years.

Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining, Concerned Citizens of T'iists'ooz Ndeeshgizh
Navajo Reservation, New Mexico
There is a fierce battle going on between a courageous and determined group of Navajo people joined together as the Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM) and Hydro Resources, Inc. (HRI), the New Mexico subsidiary of Texas based Uranium Resources, Inc. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted HRI a license to mine uranium in the area around Crownpoint and Church Rock, New Mexico without adequate input from the people whose lives and traditions are threatened. The uranium mining will destroy the sole source of drinking water for more than 15,000 Navajo people in and around the Crownpoint and Church Rock communities.

Environmental Justice Foundation
Skull Valley Reservation, Utah
The Environmental Justice Foundation was organized in 1999 in response to the nuclear industry's increasing efforts to secure an 'interim' high level nuclear waste dump on Skull Valley Reservation as a private alternative to Yucca Mountain. A brave group of Skull Valley resisters are standing up to a coalition of 12 utilities, including Xcel Corporation, incorporated as Private Fuel Storage (PFS) to stop this dump.

Heart of the Earth Survival School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
For the Mide Millennium Conference and Gathering
The Mide' Millennium Conference and Gathering will be held February 7-13 at Four Winds School in Minneapolis. The week long cultural immersion activities are geared to meet the needs of the urban Native community with a particular emphasis on students and family from Heart of the Earth and partnering schools. The Survival School provides a culturally-based education while preparing Native students for higher education and self-sufficiency. Established in 1972, Heart of the Earth was the first culturally based educational institution in the country and continues to offer a model in strengthening youth identity, community building and Native student retention.

Native Action
Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Montana
For the Get out the Indian Vote Campaign
More than 70% of Montana's eligible reservation based voters are registered to vote. The problem is not so much registration as turn-out. Honor the Earth wants to help Native Action and the Get Out the Indian Vote Coalition to achieve its goal of registering 8,000 new voters in the state -PLUS-increase and swing voter turn out.

Pimicikamak Cree Nation
Cross Lake, Manitoba, Canada
The Pimicikamak are working to educate the public and consumers about the social and environmental costs of hydroelectric power. Manitoba Hydro's mega-hydropower project, a series of dams on the Nelson River, has devastated over 3.3 million acres of northern Manitoba, creating a legacy of flooded lands, poverty, and the diminishing of traditional cultures. Manitoba Hydro sells about 40% of its power supply to the United States, the majority of which goes to Xcel Energy, further distancing energy consumers from the ecological and human costs of electricity production.

Ohngo Gaudadeh Devia
Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, Utah
Ohngo Guadedah Devia (OGD) is a grassroots group of Skull Valley members who are building opposition to the nuclear industry's increasing efforts to secure an 'interim' high level nuclear waste dump on the Reservation through alliances with other Native communities. OGD is recognized as an official intervenor in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's licensing process.

Slim Butte Lane Use Association
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
The Slim Butte Land Association is building a house using hemp materials on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The project is an effort to promote the use of hemp products for food, clothing, shelter and other needs of the tribe. It is a response to the Oglala Tribal Council's decision to allow the growing of hemp on the reservation. This project is emerging as a critical initiative in reservation based sustainable community development options.

Weaving for Freedom
Navajo Reservation, Arizona
Approximately 1000 Dine people reside on what is now Hopi Partition Land (HPL) and are resisting relocation from their homeland. Weaving for Freedom, formerly the Weaving Project, is a collective of Dine women weavers from the HPL communities who are utilizing a traditional art form to raise funds and awareness to continue their traditional way of life.