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As a PhD student in the department of anthropology at New York University, Angelo has research interests in indigenous international repatriation, indigenous food sovereignty, and sacred lands protection. He promotes a local participatory research methodology and empowering traditional knowledge keepers. He has taught a variety of Native American and Indigenous course topics from college to Ivy league university settings. As a documentary film-maker, Angelo has developed digital storytelling projects in close collaboration with indigenous communities. His latest film is Shash Jaa': Bears Ears. He is the co-president of the Native American and Indigenous Students Group at NYU, assisting in facilitating an Indigenous Studies Program minor at the institution and he is on the selection committee for the Chief Diversity Officer at NYU.

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Honor the Earth requests proposals for an Information Technology Coordinator to manage our websites, supporter database, file sharing, and communication tools.  We seek a disciplined, experienced individual with a commitment to long-term movement-building.  

This is a part-time position (~20 hours per week) with competitive compensation relative to experience and ability, but no benefits.  The IT Coordinator will be an independent contractor, not an employee of Honor the Earth.  Location is flexible, but we prefer someone able and willing to work in one of our 3 Minnesota offices: Callaway (White Earth Reservation), Duluth, and Minneapolis.  There is also a possibility for a short-term web development contract in addition to the long-term coordination position.  To submit a proposal, please send a resume and cover letter to [email protected] on or before February 15, 2018.  

Honor the Earth is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on identity.  Indigenous people, people of color, Two-Spirit or LGBTQA+ people, and members of other marginalized groups are strongly encouraged to submit proposals.

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The Wild Rice Sulfate Standard was adopted in Minnesota rules in 1973 to protect our water and our cultural resources. Manoomin no longer grows in many waters, as a result of sulfate pollution and other development. The Standard has not been enforced, and making it more complicated now will have a detrimental impact.

The MPCA is proposing to eliminate and replace the Wild Rice Sulfate Standard. Up until now, the standard has maintained that sulfate should not enter wild rice waters in higher quantities than 10 parts per million. The new proposed rule would make a different standard for every lake and wetland with wild rice – an unbelievably complicated and costly rule to implement.

Come to Protect Our Manoomin!

Attend one of these meetings to make your voice heard:

St. Paul: October 23, 2017 (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
Harold E. Stassen Building (Skjestadt Room): 600 North Robert St., St. Paul, MN 55101 

Virginia: October 24, 2017 (4 p.m. to 9 p.m.)
Mesabi Range Community College (Theater F100): 1001 Chestnut St., Virginia, MN 55792

Bemidji: October 25, 2017 (4 p.m. to 9 p.m.)
Bemidji State University (Beaux Arts Ballroom): 1500 Birchmont Dr. NE, Bemidji, MN 56601

For Immediate Release: BNP Paribas Bank stops funding tar sands, fracking -- Enbridge to lose $1.24B in corporate lending 

On October 11, BNP Paribas, the 2nd largest bank in France and 4th largest corporate lender to Enbridge LLC, announced it will cease all funding of companies whose primary business is tar sands, fracking, or Arctic drilling. The news comes on the tail of several other banks divesting from the project level financing of Energy Transfer Partnership, the company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.

Five Ojibwe bands in Minnesota announced their own environmental review process for Line 3, largely in response to the profound shortcomings in the State of Minnesota’s review.  Tribal governments are standing up to assert their rights of self-determination and to protect the lands, waters, and resources critical to the survival of the Anishinaabeg.  

The Anishinaabeg Cumulative Impact Assessment (ACIA) is a working model for environmental review utilizing Indigenous Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. The document is being reviewed and refined by the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, the White Earth Nation, the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. These Bands are also intervening in the State of Minnesota's regulatory process for the Line 3 project and will continue to oppose this project.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 21, 2017

Contact:
Tara Houska, Honor the Earth (612) 226-9404
Ruth Breech, Rainforest Action Network (415) 238-1766

Indigenous Groups Lead Movement to Call on Banks to Drop
Enbridge’s Controversial Line 3 Pipeline
Tribal Nations based in Minnesota oppose the project and the Minnesota Department of Commerce has condemned it

Minneapolis, MN -- Today, a coalition of Indigenous, national and international groups join a growing movement placing pressure on financial institutions to drop financially and socially risky projects, delivering a group letter to the 36 banks providing corporate finance to fossil fuel infrastructure giant Enbridge. The groups are calling on the banks to cut business ties with Enbridge Inc. until it stops expanding tar sands operations, one of the most destructive fossil fuels on the planet. Enbridge is the company behind the Line 3 “Replacement” Pipeline project, a controversial project that would cause Indigenous rights abuses and continued contributions towards climate change.

Last week, the Minnesota Department of Commerce shocked us all with its formal testimony in opposition to Line 3:  

“Oil market analysis indicates that Enbridge has not established a need for the proposed project; the pipeline would primarily benefit areas outside Minnesota; and serious environmental and socioeconomic risks and effects outweigh limited benefits.”

“Minnesota would be better off if Enbridge proposed to cease operations of the existing Line 3, without any new pipeline being built.”

We are excited to share this the "Sacred" music video featuring Porangui and Kayt Pearl written by conscious Hip Hop artist J Brave dropped on Thursday, Sept. 21st with a some help from Unify!! The artists will be giving away 100% of the Bandcamp single proceeds to Honor The Earth supporting the preservation of sacred sites, Native environmental issues, and the protection of indigenous culture. 

This Sunday morning, a great one moved on.  Bob Gough served as an Honor the Earth board member for many years, and we miss him already.  Bob was a leader in the development and advancement of renewable energy on tribal lands. 

Bob was a brilliant and generous man, relentless in his advocacy for sustainability and his efforts to apply "indigenuity" as a solution to some of the world’s most wicked problems.  We are very grateful for his service, his wisdom, his leadership, and his friendship.  

Winona LaDuke, Honor the Earth Executive Director, was very close to Gough.  “Bob was a true mentor to me, and he encouraged all of my thinking.  He was my climate change, resilience, and adaptation guru, and he prodded us all along with a great humbleness.  In all of his work he was a beacon, a star of navigation in unknown territory.”

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