Honor the Earth

Honor The Earth is a non-profit organization founded to raise awareness and financial support for Indigenous environmental justice.[1] The organization was founded by Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers after meeting Winona LaDuke, and after consultation with members of the Indigenous Environmental Network, Indigenous Women's Network and Seventh Generation Fund. Since 2016, Winona LaDuke and other members of Honor the Earth have been active in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.[2]

Honor The Earth
Non-profit
IndustryIndigenous Environmentalism
Founded1993
HeadquartersCallaway, Minnesota
Key people
Winona LaDuke
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers
Tara Houska
Productsgrant making, sustainable technology.
Websitehttp://www.honorearth.org

Honor the Earth's mission is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard.[3]

Goals and priorities

The campaign priorities of Honor the Earth are:

  • energy justice/creating a new energy economy[4]
  • sacred site protection[5]
  • environmental justice
  • promoting leadership amongst Native youth in Native communities
  • renewable energy[6]
  • buffalo restoration
  • nuclear waste policy[7]
  • Impacted Nations, a travelling art show of over 50 works from over 40 Indigenous artists[8]
  • getting out the Native vote
  • encouraging tribal commitment to the Kyoto protocol

Notable supporters

Musicians who have held benefit concerts for the organization include Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, and David Crosby.[9]

gollark: I do find it *really* ridiculous that the law *allows* for such things, but whatever.
gollark: TJ09 works there.
gollark: Facebook or something.
gollark: We could always move to the DC subreddit.
gollark: Probably not. Either it's an actual job requirement or some sort of TJ09 excuse.

See also

Notes

  1. 'Honor The Earth' tour brings political and artistic unity Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine by Melissa Schorr, Las Vegas Sun, September 30, 2000.
  2. Winona LaDuke (August 25, 2016). "What Would Sitting Bull Do?". Retrieved November 17, 2016.
  3. "About Us". Honor The Earth. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
  4. Solar energy comes to Western Shoshone territory Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, News From Indian Country, May 2, 2005.
  5. Solar energy comes to Western Shoshone territory Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, News From Indian Country, May 2, 2005.
  6. LaDuke and Indigo Girls talk up renewable energy by Amy Kingsley, Yes Weekly. September 2005.
  7. Ani DiFranco Invites PDA Activists to Ally With Her on the Hill Archived 2006-09-30 at the Wayback Machine by David Swanson, Board Member of Progressive Democrats of America.
  8. Honor The Earth supports traveling art exhibit, indianz.com, March 3, 2006.
  9. Musicians sound off on Yucca Mountain perils Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine by Benjamin Grove, May 30, 2002.
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