U.S (NATIVE ORGANIZERS ALLIANCE) : Sign the petition to demand CONGRESS PROTECT NATIVE SACRED PLACES now.

 

 

 

 

 

Friend, 

 

Across the country, Indigenous sacred places have been threatened and desecrated by the climate crisis and by harmful development projects like pipelines, mining activities, and resource extraction. All in violation of federal treaties, without the consent of Tribal communities who have traditional and spiritual connections to the land.

We build Native power during elections and year-round to remedy these injustices. At the very least, Native people must have a seat at the decision-making table when it comes to managing and protecting our sacred places.

This Native American Heritage Month, we’re honoring and uplifting the inherent and legal right of Tribal Nations to govern themselves. We’re calling on Congress to pass two landmark pieces of legislation that would protect places of Indigenous foods, medicines, ceremony, burial sites, and creation stories : the Advancing Tribal Parity on Public Land Act and the Tribal Cultural Areas Protection Act. 

 

 

Please sign the petition to demand Congress protect Native sacred places now.

 

 

SIGN NOW

 

 

In September 2022, Native Organizers Alliance delivered petition signatures to the House Committee of Natural Resources as the Committee held hearings on this legislation. Now we’re calling on Congress more broadly to advance and pass these important bills.

Advancing Tribal Parity on Public Lands Act :
Prohibits the sale of public land containing a tribal cultural site, where a tribal nation retains treaty or other reserved rights, or that contains a former reservation. Also requires federal land management agencies to provide tribal governments with meaningful public involvement opportunities in land use planning, and requires that public land advisory boards include at least one tribal representative.

Tribal Cultural Areas Protection Act :
Establishes a national system of culturally significant sites on public lands, prohibits mining and other forms of development that would impair Tribal cultural areas’ cultural values, and ensures that tribal nations have the ability to protect, co-manage, and use the cultural sites they have used for generations.

From our creation stories to fighting to uphold our inherent and legal rights, we have always understood the power of organizing. This ancestral knowledge guides our present-day grassroots work of building a movement for self-determination and sovereignty. We must continue preserving our culture, language, land, and sacred sites. 

 

 

Please add your name to tell Congress to pass the Advancing Tribal Parity on Public Lands Act and the Tribal Cultural Areas Protection Act now.

 

 

Hawwih (thank you), 

 

 

 

 

Judith Le Blanc (Caddo)
Executive Director.

 

 

 

 

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