Lowlander Center (allied)

What happened

The Lowlander Center describes itself as "a 501-c-3 non-profit organization supporting lowland people and places through education, research and advocacy," based in the bayous of Louisiana. ProPublica lists it in Many, Louisiana, under EIN 46-4993987, with tax exemption issued in October 2014.

Its mission page says it supports coastal and bayou lowlands, honoring residents, "Indigenous and all diverse historied groups." It says it uses traditional ecological and historied knowledge, creates a forum for participatory action research, and serves as a source of training and technical information. It says it works with the collaboration of activist volunteers.

Its staff and board page lists Theresa Dardar, a tribal member of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe, as board president. A team biography there says a staff member worked with the Lowlander Center on coastal community resettlement. The organization describes itself as supporting, rather than being, the tribal communities it works with; the vetting notes classify it as allied and not Native-led.

Its pages describe no completed land purchase or return, and name no specific resettlement project, tribe or acreage. Lowlander's role, as it describes it, is research, training and advocacy on resilience and resettlement.

Good to know. An allied group that supports bayou and coastal communities, including tribes; it is not described as Native-led and holds no returned land.

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