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Diné CARE (Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment)

Diné C.A.R.E., a Navajo Nation grassroots organization founded in 1988, defends Diné communities and lands against environmental threats such as waste dumps and logging.

Kind
Nonprofit (existence only)
Native-led
unverified
Works with
Diné (Navajo Nation)
Region
Window Rock, AZ
Registry
EIN 86-0670809 (ProPublica listing only)
Vetting notes
Only existence checked. No dedicated Diné or Pueblo land-return nonprofit was verified; see F2 gaps.

What happened

Diné Citizens Against Ruining our Environment (Diné C.A.R.E.) says it is a nonprofit on the Navajo Nation that works with Navajo communities affected by energy and environmental issues. ProPublica lists it in Window Rock, Arizona, under EIN 86-0670809, with tax exemption issued in May 1995. Its site names Robyn Jackson as executive director.

The group's own history says it began in 1988 as a small community organization to stop a medical waste incinerator and dump in Dilkon, Arizona. It says the tribal government had approved the plan, and the group organized the community and defeated it. Its listed later work includes co-founding the Indigenous Environmental Network in 1990, opposing a proposed asbestos dump in 1991, and stopping what it calls reckless timber cutting in the Chuska Mountains in 1994.

Its mission statement says it advocates for traditional teachings by protecting life within the Four Sacred Mountains and promotes sustainable use of natural resources. The group says it is a membership organization by and for the Diné, and that its work is mostly paid for by foundation grants.

Diné C.A.R.E. defends land from harm. It is not a land-return group, and its pages describe no land it has bought or returned.

Good to know. This group defends land from environmental harm; it does not buy or return land. Its accomplishments are its own account.

Summarized with AI assistance from 4 sources and checked against their words; not yet reviewed by historians or by the nations. Report an error

What the sources say, and how this was checked

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  1. We started as a small, community-based organization in 1988 to prevent the location of a medical waste incinerator and dumpDiné C.A.R.E. - About
  2. In 1990, we co-founded the Indigenous Environmental Network.Diné C.A.R.E. - About
  3. Robyn JacksonDiné C.A.R.E. - Home
  4. Tax exemption issued: May 1995ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer - Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment

Research notes. Accomplishments are the organization's own account; none were independently verified. Not a land-return organization. The donation button goes to PayPal; the payee was not checked. The record's website field was empty; the site is dine-care.org.

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Corrections to this record

  • The website was listed as “”; corrected from dine-care.orgWelcome to Diné C.A.R.E.

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Sources

  1. dine-care.org/unclassified
    Welcome to Diné C.A.R.E.
The record’s fields
Focus
Environmental advocacy; not verified as a land-return organization
Kind
Organization
Confidence
Low

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