Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope

Who is doing the work

This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:

• NANA Regional Corporation shareholders (Inupiat)
• Inupiat
• Alaska Native peoples

Working with these nations

• NANA Regional Corporation Nation government Nearly 28,000 acres transferred under ANCSA (HCN)
• United Tribes of Bristol Bay (UTBB) Nation government Long-term guardianship of lands, air and waters, Tribal self-determination Give on their site Website
• Native Conservancy (Cordova, Alaska) Native-led LandBack, OceanBack and PeopleBack programs: Native-led conservation trusts, regenerative mariculture, return of… Give on their site Website
• Native Movement (Alaska) Native-led Indigenous rights, environmental justice, food sovereignty and grassroots organizing (not a land buyer) Give on their site Website
• Spruce Root (Seacoast Trust / Sustainable Southeast Partnership) Native-led Indigenous-led conservation funding: Indigenous Guardians, community forest partnerships, food sovereignty in… Give on their site Website

Native legal and land defense, nationally

• Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
• NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
• Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
• Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website

Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.