U.S (NATIVE ORGANIZERS ALLIANCE ACTION FUND): protecting Greater Chaco Canyon.

 

 

 

 

 

Friend, 

 

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland recently announced a step forward for Indigenous sacred places : The Biden administration will *prohibit* new federal oil and gas leasing and mining claims within 10 miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

We’ve worked to support the Greater Chaco Coalition in their calls for the Biden administration to protect Greater Chaco Canyon. This victory is due to decades of Tribal initiatives and Native activism, and it’s a compromise leaving Indigenous communities living outside the 10-mile buffer still under threat from ongoing oil and gas pollution.

Unfortunately, Republican members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources are now trying to punish Secretary Deb Haaland for responding to input from grassroots advocates -- in an attempt to demonize community engagement in policy decisions.

MAGA Republicans want to paint this victory as a scandal to investigate, when the real scandal is how corporate polluters regularly influence our government, dismantle our democracy, and exploit our sacred places for profit. We need to fight against the misinformation campaign by Big Oil and their MAGA allies in Congress that are trying to divide us. This decision reaffirms allotment rights and strengthens sovereignty.

Please donate $5 or more today to help us build on recent momentum to protect sacred places, while standing strong against right-wing attempts to weaponize our victories against us.

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With your support, we can continue to stand with Tribal and Native communities against corporate polluters and continue to hold the Biden administration accountable to its promises of honoring Tribal sovereignty, including by ending all new federal fossil fuel leasing and drilling on public lands.

We’re advocating not only for Tribal consultation in projects that affect our ancestral and sacred places, but a more stringent standard of prior and informed consent from our Tribes and Native communities.

Together, we can transition to a more sustainable future for all.

Hawwih (thank you in Caddo), 

 

Judith LeBlanc (Caddo)
Executive Director.

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