In our social and border justice campaigns, cultural preservation and sacred site protection, we have ongoing partnerships and coalitions with those working against border militarization, Indigenous language rights, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous People and Children.

Our layered strategy factors the sovereignty of tribal nations, building relations with tribal leaders, and on-the-ground advocates. In our earlier projects to provide “Know Your Rights” workshops and information to Indigenous communities, we highlighted the rights of mobility and passage. Today, we have expanded our work to include  Indigenous migrants, working to provide  direct services through the Indigenous Language Office and developing an Indigenous anatomy manual in 16 Indigenous languages of peoples in diaspora. 

For the past 25 years, we have organized gatherings with hundreds of Indigenous peoples, elders, leaders, activists, organizers and people on the front-lines of change, building coalitions and developing resources that strengthen Indigenous peoples’ abilities to take action and protect sacred sites/Indigenous cultural knowledge.  We have asserted our presence in interconnected human and civil rights work, raising awareness about Indigenous experiences within these spaces. Our plant medicine project recognizes the sovereignty of the Natural World and respects the Natural Laws that our Peoples have honored to establish our lifeways, philosophies and human survival. We have organized transnational delegations related to the Yaqui water rights struggle; campaigns to focus on Indigenous language rights and intergenerational Indigenous knowledge gatherings with students, youth and elders from dozens of nations; completed/disseminated a manual for tribal members and tribal leaders to understand laws and policies that protect the rights of mobility and passage of tribal members divided by the U.S.-Mexico.