A stunning account of the Sacred Stone Camp’s first day, where Indigenous activist LaDonna BraveBull Allard gathered water protectors to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline!
Students resented their cramped quarters. “The buildings were so overcrowded and there was so little room for employees, many of the larger rooms in the main dormitory were used by one employee, leaving the pupils cramped in even smaller rooms.”
This article has taught me one truth. Our youth are amazing. The Indigenous youth I have spoken to are resilient, they are the definition of strength, and they have become the beacon of hope in our fight to protect our finite resources here on Mother Earth.
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MAZASKA TALKS: SELECTED BY THE DECOLONIZING WEALTH PROJECT AND LIBERATED CAPITAL AS A RECIPIENT OF THIS YEAR’S INDIGENOUS EARTH FUND GRANT
Decolonizing Wealth Project and Liberated Capital Award $1 Million To Indigenous-Led Climate and Conservation Initiatives
27 organizations will help uplift Indigenous efforts across the U.S. to combat the climate crisis
SEATTLE - November 25, 2024 - Today, the Decolonizing Wealth Project and their funding mechanism, Liberated Capital, announced the distribution of $1 million in grants to 27 Indigenous-led organizations and tribes across the US through their Indigenous Earth Fund (IEF). Mazaska Talks was announced as one of 27 grantee partners to receive funding through the Indigenous Earth Fund funding initiative.
The funding will support grantees’ efforts to tackle climate change and conservation through traditional Indigenous cultural practices and innovations. Grantees include local organizations working toward ancestral land return, land stewardship and conservation, advocacy, and youth engagement and education.
Since its inception in 2021, IEF has distributed over $4 million in capital to 38 Native-led organizations, and, as a result, has engaged over 200 tribes across the U.S. These grant-making initiatives reflect the Decolonizing Wealth Project's mission to redirect resources to historically overlooked or marginalized communities, with a focus on supporting traditional Indigenous cultural practices as effective solutions to the climate crisis. Highlights of past grantees who have made significant strides through their climate work as a result of IEF funding include SAGE Development Authority creating the first Indigenous-owned utility-scale wind farm in the U.S; the creation of an Indigenous Storytelling Hub featuring digital shorts and a podcast series set to launch in 2025 by Indigenous Led; dam removal and flow restoration campaigns led by Save California Salmon, and more.
"Indigenous peoples safeguard much of Earth's biodiversity, yet philanthropy has chronically underfunded their work," said Edgar Villanueva, CEO of Decolonizing Wealth Project. "Our Indigenous Earth Fund addresses this critical gap by channeling resources to Indigenous climate and conservation leaders who have maintained vital ecological knowledge and practices across generations. This fund reinforces our steadfast commitment to Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination."
The Indigenous Earth Fund is rooted in the belief that Indigenous peoples must lead the charge for climate action and land conservation. Despite their longstanding history in protecting our planet and helping to mitigate climate change, Indigenous-led organizations receive a disproportionately small share of philanthropic climate funding. Through the Indigenous Earth Fund (IEF), Decolonizing Wealth is challenging philanthropy to prioritize investments into Indigenous communities in their efforts to save the planet.
“We are honored to be among the recipients of the Indigenous Earth Fund grant. The Decolonizing Wealth Project is helping to lead the way in changing helping change what supporting the frontlines looks like. We’re grateful for the support,” said Mazaska Talks co-founder Matt Remle
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The Quinault people are the very definition of resilience, demonstrating adaptability, and stewardship of their lands with dedication, love, and devotion.
Banks, and now insurers, drop project plagued with risk from community, cultural, and climate issues.
“The birth of the white buffalo calf in Yellowstone has captivated the world,” reflects James Holt, Sr., Executive Director of BFC. “I hope this sacred occurrence will aid the plight of the wild buffalo, for their existence is needed by all beings, especially here in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.”
Released today, the 15th annual Banking on Climate Chaos (BOCC) report employs a new, expanded data set that credits each bank making financial contributions to a deal instead of only crediting banks in leading roles. It cuts through greenwash, covering the world’s top 60 banks’ lending and underwriting to over 4,200 fossil fuel companies and the financing of companies causing the degradation of the Amazon and Arctic.
The Chief Seattle Club, CSC, has long since tended to and nurtured the seeds for growth, sowing opportunities, and holding space for healing. It is an important center we need for our Indigenous communities to survive and hopefully thrive in this urban Coast Salish territory of Seattle Washington
Formed in 2016 during the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, Mazaska Talks seeks to leverage economic power to fight repression of Indigenous rights and the desecration of Mother Earth.
These films will highlight indigenous leaders, activist, and community members who are working towards our collective future
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Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report follows the money and details massive bank support for the world’s worst climate-destroying corporations
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Chubb joins 17 international insurers and every major U.S. bank as the first American insurance company with a policy that precludes underwriting new oil and gas development in the Arctic Refuge.
The Yakama Nation is fighting a pumped hydro storage development near Goldendale, Washington – but it’s just one of many.
It can be difficult to understand the true impacts of climate change when you are not directly facing its harsh effects. We see that communities in different regions and terrains around the world are experiencing different rates of global warming with different consequences.
My people don’t need to be saved, we want to be respected! Respect our culture, our people, our ways, Creator and Mother Earth.
The investigation by the Public Accountability Initiative, a nonprofit corporate and government accountability research institute, and its research database project LittleSis, details how police foundations in cities such as Seattle, Chicago, Washington, New Orleans and Salt Lake City are partially funded by household names such as Chevron, Shell and Wells Fargo
We simply cannot allow ourselves to trade the welfare of the places we live, the water we drink, the future of all of our children for the crumbs these banks and corporations throw at us, period.
Divest from Wall Street, pull your money out of these banks financing and profiting from the loss of life, save the planet.