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Today is National Nonprofit Day! ❤️✨ Allow us to use this opportunity to introduce ourselves for anyone that is curious what we do here at Native Organizers Alliance:

🪶 NOA is driven to impact change and empower Indigenous leaders, people, and communities.

✨ Our mission manifests in our focus areas: sacred site protection, Tribal sovereignty, power building, and our community organizer trainings.

Want to learn more and support our work? Head over to nativeorganizing.org.

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🪶 The American Indian Religious Freedom Act was passed on this day in 1978. Prior to this vital legislation, our ceremonies and beliefs were prohibited within the United States. Despite the passage of this law, Tribes continue to struggle for the right to practice our beliefs.

Oak Flat is a deeply important sacred place for the Western Apache people. It is where many medicines grow and the location for ceremony. But Oak Flat, known as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, has been threatened with greed and extraction for over a decade. A coalition called Apache Stronghold sued the U.S. government in federal court and now are preparing to take their rights to the Supreme Court.

We must remain vigilant and continue to support efforts that protect our sacred places and our right to practice our traditional beliefs.

Tap the link in our bio to contact your Congressional Representative on this 46th anniversary of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act and tell them to sign on to the Save Oak Flat from Foreign Mining Act, which would repeal the legislation that is threatening this sacred place.

All around the world, Indigenous communities are keeping culture and traditions alive while continuing to fight for our sovereignty and the Earth.

On this #InternationalDayoftheWorldsIndigenousPeoples, we want acknowledge the tenacity of our fellow kin all around the world.

Today is World Nature Conservation Day 🌎 which is dedicated to protecting our planet’s natural resources and ecosystems that support all life.

🍃 Here at Native Organizers Alliance, we work in partnership with Tribes and Native leaders who are demanding permanent protections for sacred places under threat from toxic mining and fossil fuel extraction. Here’s 3 Native-led efforts you should be aware of:

✨In partnership with the San Carlos Apache Tribe and the Apache Stronghold Coalition, we have sent thousands of messages to President Biden, federal agencies, and Congress demanding permanent protection of Oak Flat in Arizona. As the Tribe appeals their case to the Supreme Court, we’re pushing for urgent action.

🏜️ The Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe have been caretakers of their homelands since time immemorial, and restoring their right to co-stewardship would rectify past federal management inadequacies that have harmed the landscapes and the health of our non-human relatives. We urge the Biden administration to designate national monument protections for the Kw’tsán National Monument, echoing the Tribe’s demands.

🌊 Earlier this year, thousands of public comments were recorded opposing the Magellan Pipeline’s destructive re-route through sacred Native lands and waters around Pipestone National Monument in Minnesota. We lifted up official comments from the Yankton Sioux Tribe, whose members continue the ancient practice of quarrying sacred red pipestone by hand to carve pipes and use the area for sacred ceremonies, prayers, sweat lodges, and sun dances.

Last week, members of the NOA team traveled to Cincinnati for The Praxis Project`s Roots & Remedies Convening! ❤🌾 We connected with social justice activists from all different backgrounds and progressive networks to connect, plot, and build.

Here`s to building that grassroots power! ✨