NOA welcomes two new organizers to the team!

Native Organizers Alliance is providing support for a growing network of tribal leaders and Native community organizers leading the movements for self-governance, human rights and dignity across Turtle Island. We are also intensifying our training program to work closely with Native leaders to organize local and regional training sessions.

Our goal is to accelerate the growth of an ecosystem of grassroots leaders and organizers who are preparing for all of our descendants for seven generations ahead.

We will learn from those in Minneapolis who moved, guided by their hearts, to act bravely, with discipline and love of humanity and Mother Earth.

In 2026 our training opportunities will give leaders and organizers a time and place to reflect on what community care and safety looks like in these uncertain times.

We defend sacred places by partnering with Tribes and grassroots communities to protect sacred places threatened by federal government policies and by corporate exploitation of the land and water.

We also work with multiracial coalitions to build a movement for an inclusive democracy that would fulfill our long-denied treaty rights and civil and human rights for all.

And now, at Native Organizers Alliance, we are taking the work of building a movement across Indian Country for sovereignty and justice to the next level with the addition of two young organizers:

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Iko’tsimiskimaki “Ekoo” Beck – Organizing Fellowship Manager

Ekoo’s work will focus on elevating and equipping Native leaders throughout Indian Country. A Blackfeet, Red River Metis, and an enrolled member of the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe of Montana, they are also German American. Ekoo grew up in western Montana on the Blackfeet Reservation.

Ekoo has focused on community organizing and historic preservation. Ekoo worked for The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, Montana Native Vote, and Western Native Voice. A graduate of Harvard with a focus on Indigenous Oppression and American Indian Culture, they wrote their senior thesis on the impact of Holy Family Mission Boarding School on gender roles in Blackfeet cosmology and society.

Sidney Kabotie – Training Manager

Sidney understands the necessity of developing curriculum which begins with the collective knowledge of the participants and the collective learnings of our ancestors. He has experience in public, partner, and staff education utilizing Indigenous frameworks and worldview to enable the awareness that our communities have a deep capacity for problem-solving. A descendant of the Crow Nation, Hopi Nation, and Santa Clara Pueblo, he currently lives in Albuquerque, NM on the traditional lands of the Sandia and Isleta Pueblos.

Sidney’s work has focused on facilitating consensus-based group process throughout Indian Country, responding to issues in urban houselessness, Indian child welfare, Tribal economic development, natural resource management, teen suicide prevention, food sovereignty, resilient energy development, and beyond. He holds a master’s degree in Indigenous Leadership and Sustainable Community Building from the University of New Mexico, a master’s degree in Diversity and Inclusion Leadership from Tufts University, and a bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from Fort Lewis College.

It’s hard to express just how much it means to our entire staff circle to expand impact with these two spiritually grounded, experienced young organizers. We’re excited about the work ahead!

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