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"If world citizens continue to ignore the signs of the time, it will seal the fate of all our relations and the generations to come."
- Robby Romero, NCS
The BP deep-sea crude oil drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is the worst oil spill in US history. This is not the first catastrophic spill and, should we fail to respond, it will not be the last. This disaster should serve as a clear wake-up call to action.
The path of destruction does not begin or end with this. Remember the Exxon Valdez spill, the worst crude oil spill until now? With one of the worst safety and maintenance records in the industry, BP plans to drill again in Alaska just miles away from a delicate wildlife reserve. BP has also entered into the tar sands in northern Alberta, Canada. The tar sands continue to be the site of human rights violations to Indigenous Peoples, environmental health problems, and water contamination. Tar sands mining emits three times more greenhouse gas pollution than traditional oil.
The 'Fossil Foolish' Industry is an old idea — the time has come for the oil cartel to become caretakers rather than predators. Demand accountability from natural resource-extracting corporations and your government to recognize the Rights of Mother Earth and all her relations.
Yokoke! (Thank you in Choctaw), NCS
RED THUNDER - NATIVE CHILDREN'S SURVIVAL
If not now, when? If not you, who? is an essential CD/DVD collection of music, music videos, rockumentary films and public service announcement campaigns about the critical need to permanently protect our last remaining wild places and bridge the gap between Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and the Environment. [ More Details & Ordering ]
ABOUT NATIVE CHILDREN'S SURVIVAL
Native Children's Survival (NCS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about critical issues facing Mother Earth, her children, and the seventh generation to come. Our mission is achieved through the international language of music and film, and sustainable product development.
Founded by Robby Romero in 1989, our first music video project, "Is It Too Late" was broadcast around the world from the Kremlin following President Gorbachev's historical environmental speech at the 1990 Global Forum in Moscow. Since then, NCS has created award winning music, music videos, public service announcements, and rockumentary films, that have reached millions of people from all walks of life through broadcasts on MTV, VH1, Sundance Channel, CNN, SABC Africa, and many other networks around the world. NCS has also created and developed internationally successful products that have supported the customs and sustainable practices of Indigenous Peoples around the world.
In addition to raising awareness, NCS is dedicated to supporting children's programs, and grassroots Indigenous organizations that are working on the front lines to protect and support Indigenous Peoples and the environment. Through our projects, we have successfully raised millions of dollars to aid these organizations.
Support NATIVE CHILDREN'S SURVIVAL by joining our education and awareness campaign.
HONORARY BOARD OF ADVISORS
Adelard Blackman, Special Emissary, Buffalo River Dene Nation; Richard Moves Camp, Oglala Lakota Spiritual Leader; Rhoda Concha, Taos Pueblo; Ole Cassadore-Davis, Apache Survival Coalition; Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environment Network; Tonya Gonnella Frichner, Esq., American Indian Law Alliance; Sarah James, Gwich'in Steering Committee; Chairman Floyd "BucK" Jourdain, Red Lake Nation; Dune Lankard, Eyak Preservation Council; Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe of the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Sioux Nation; Chief Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper, Onondaga Nation; Audrey Shenandoah, Clan Mother, Onondaga Nation; Reuben A. Snake, Winnebago Nation, (1937-1993); Ernest Stevens, Jr., Chairman/Spokesperson NIGA
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Robby Romero, Stacey Thunder, Dakota René
CURRENT PROJECTS
• THUNDERSTORM -
A thirteen part film series bridging the gap between Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and the Environment. View the Brochure
• NCS r u 2 cool 2 care... Public Service Announcement Campaign View our films page to view all our PSA campaigns.
ORGANIZATIONS NCS SUPPORTS
• AMERICAN INDIAN INSTITUTE "Traditional Circle of Indian Elders and Youth"
The Traditional Circle of Indian Elders and Youth is composed of grassroots spiritual leaders from Indian nations throughout North America. Structured in the ancestral way, the Circle is open to all traditional Indian people. It serves as a living repository of indigenous wisdom and values. Its focus is exclusively on perpetuating traditional cultural and spiritual values.
Contact: AMERICAN INDIAN INSTITUTE
• AMERICAN INDIAN LAW ALLIANCE"Let us put our minds together and see what kind of life we can make for our children."
Founded by Tonya Gonnella Frichner (Onondaga Nation, Snipe Clan) the American Indian Law Alliance is an indigenous, non-profit organization that works with Indigenous nations, communities and organizations in our struggle for sovereignty, human rights, and social justice for our peoples. We support our elders and leaders and are accountable to the communities we serve. We welcome our allies, while remaining committed to our original instructions handed down through generations of ancestors in order to preserve Indigenous traditions for our descendants.
The American Indian Law Alliance, is a Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The American Indian Law Alliance has earned the respect and support of Indigenous peoples worldwide in their over 20 years of experience working within the United Nations in defense of the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Contact:
American Indian Law Alliance
121 West 27th Street Suite 201, New York, NY 10001
1.212.477.9100 phone |
1.212.477.0004 fax
aila@ailan |
ailanyc.org
• AMERICA'S LAST FRONTIER"We have peoples power. We're going to stand united with one voice."
Winds of drastic and potentially catastrophic change are blowing through Alaska. Blind consumption is placing our wild ecosystems under attack as global warming threatens the breath of life.
A visionary comprehensive energy policy must be brought forward. Permanent Protection is our birthright and will prevent a continued assault on mother earth.
Contact: AmericasLastFrontier.org
• APACHE SURVIVAL COALITION"Protect Endagered Sacred Sites"
Native religious and cultural rights, such as 'DZIL NCHAA SI' AN' ? the Apache holy land known as Mount Graham.
Contact:
Apache Survival Coalition
P.O. Box 1237
San Carlos, AZ 85550
520-475-2543 |
Ole Cassadore-Davis, Chairperson
• BLACKFEET BEAR ROOTS ASSOCIATION"As Indigenous People we must preserve and protect our traditional medicines and our way of life from extinction."
The Blackfeet Bear Roots Association (BBRA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Glacier County, Montana. The BBRA mission is to preserve traditional wisdom, values and culture and to improve the health and environment on the reservation.
The BBRA training program for Native Americans focuses on the skills, methods and sensitive cultural issues involved in Native plant horticulture and ecosystem restoration. Utilizing modern organic horticulture technology in conjunction with traditional Blackfeet horticulture, the BBRA works with spiritual leaders, elders and youth to grow and produce alternative food sources, medicinal herbs, plants and roots to help improve the quality of their community now and for the generations to come.
Contact:
Blackfeet Bear Roots Association
P.O. Box 1677
Browning, MT 59417
• BUFFALO RIVER DENE NATION NGO"Human Rights violations come in many different forms and today's governments and corporations have refined ways to violate the basic Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples."
This website is dedicated to raising awareness of the Buffalo River Dene Nation's current legal battle over traditional land rights with the government of Canada.
The Buffalo River Dene Nation is in danger of losing access to their traditional territories and needs the support of people interested in indigenous issues, human rights, and international law.
Contact:
BUFFALO RIVER DENE NATION NGO
sylvestredene@yahoo.com
• EYAK PRESERVATION COUNCIL"Protect and Preserve Our Wild Places"
The Eyak Preservation Council's mission is to protect the inherent rights of culture, heritage, language and ancestral lands needed to preserve and restore the Eyak tribe's continued existence as an independently recognized Alaska tribal nation. An intact ecosystem is a living monument of proof, that we, as a human race, can coexist in harmony with the planet into the 21st century and beyond.
Contact:
Eyak Preservation Council
P.O. 460, Cordova, Alaska 99574
907.424.5890 (v) 907.424.5891 (f)
www.redzone.org/
• FREE NATIVE AMERICAN POLITICAL PRISONER LEONARD PELTIER
Contact:
The New Peltier Justice Campaign
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
PO Box 583
Lawrence, KS 66044
785-842-5774
www.whoisleonardpeltier.info
Amnesty International | www.amnesty.org
• GWICH'IN STEERING COMMITTEE"Permanent Protection Of The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain Is Our Birthright"
The Gwich'in Steering Committee was established in1988 by consensus resolution of the leaders of the Gwich'in Nation. Gwich'in spokespeople from Alaska and Canada were selected to achieve the goal of permanent protection of the Sacred Place Where Life Begins, Iizhik Gwats'an Gwandaii Goodlit the Porcupine Caribou Herd's calving and nursery grounds. For over 20,000 years the Porcupine Caribou Herd has been the basis of the culture for the Gwich'in comparable to the Plains Tribes and the buffalo. 100 tribes and inter-tribal organizations have passed resolutions of support including the National Congress of American Indians, the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council, Tanana Chiefs Conference and the Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments."
GWICH'IN NATION CALLS ON ALL SUPPORTERS TO TAKE URGENT ACTION NOW TO PROTECT ARCTIC REFUGE
The fate of the Arctic Refuge is the fate of the people of the Gwich'in Nation. The Arctic Refuge must not be sacrificed to meet the high energy consumption lifestyle of the U.S. The Gwich'in must not sacrifice our ancestral way of life it is our birthright and that of the future generations as we have had since time immemorial. www.gwichinsteeringcommittee.org
The Gwich'in Steering Committee
122 First Avenue, Box 2
Fairbanks, AK. 99701
Tel (907) 458-8264
Fax (907) 457-8265
Web: www.gwichinsteeringcommittee.org
• LAKOTA LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM "Revitalizing Lakota, one child at a time."
LLC is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation, revitalization, and promotion of the Lakota Sioux language. We feel strongly that the Lakota language is a unique and valuable living expression of the culture - a linguistic legacy certainly worth preserving.
To achieve this mission, LLC develops educational materials and sponsors programs which encourage the use of the language among the 20,000 Lakota children in need of instructional materials for their language. Our goal is to prepare a new generation of Lakota speakers by providing pedagogical and technical support to help schools and communities save the language.
Contact:
LAKOTA LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM
P.O. Box 5034
Bloomington, IN 47407-5034 USA
Tel. 812.340.3517 |
Fax. 812.857.4482
Email: help@lakhota.org |
www.lakhota.org
• LAKOTA LANGUAGE SCHOOL"Providing culture, language, history, and spiritual knowledge"
This school is the endeavor of the descendant's of Chief Big Foot, and John Little Finger in honoring their ancestry and legacy of 11 generations of the Teton Lakota or Sioux Nation. In this long lineage of traditional heritage there were 5 Chiefs. They included: (1) Crippled Warbonnet; (2) Red Fish, who had his camp on Rapid Creek, which is present day Rapid City, SD.; (3) One Horn I, who greeted the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803 on the Missouri River; (4) One Horn II, who was one of the signers of the Treaty of 1868 at Ft. Laramie, along with his son Big Foot, also known as Spotted Elk. One Horn II was also one of 4 leaders chosen by other Chiefs (Leaders) to preside over the Sioux Nation Grand Council. The last one being Chief Big Foot, who was massacred at the Wounded Knee Creek Massacre on December 29, 1890, along with his Band of 290 Mniconjou Lakota. His grandson, John Little Finger escaped with gunshot wounds, which carried forward the lineage and heritage who firmly believed in the following: "They may have killed our relatives (people), but they can never take away our way of life".
Today, the children of the Lakota are the products of 150 years of attempts to exterminate and/or assimilate our people into mainstream society by taking away our language, culture, and spiritual beliefs. Today, and more crucial, is that the time is rapidly approaching when the elders are leaving for their final journey in multitudes back to the spirit world. They are the speakers and the language-speaking base needed to retain the language for the younger parents and children. Therefore, time is of essence to keep the language from disappearing. This is the basis for this plan.
Contact:
LEONARD LITTLE FINGER
P.O. BOX 47,
OGLALA, S. D.
605-867-5374
Email: sitankatakoja@hotmail.com|
Website: www.lakotacirclevillage.org
• SAVE OUR ANCIENT FORESTS"Everything New Is Hidden In The Past"
Protect and save the remaining 4% of America's original forests. More than 90% of plants & flowers in the virgin forests have never been studied for their spiritual, medicinal, nutritional and cleansing powers. Contact your local representatives, and get involved.
Contact:
To find your representative's phone number, call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Senator's and/or Representative's office.
Remember that telephone calls are often taken by a staff member, not the member of Congress. Ask to speak with the aide who handles the issue to which you wish to comment.
• SEVENTH GENERATION FUND"In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation."
The Seventh Generation Fund is an Indigenous non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and maintaining the uniqueness of Native peoples throughout the Americas. We offer an integrated program of advocacy, small grants, training and technical assistance, media experience and fiscal management, lending our support and extensive expertise to Indigenous grassroots communities.
Our organization derives its name from a precept of the Great Law of Peace of the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy) which mandates that chiefs consider the impact of their decisions on the seventh generation yet to come. Learn about us, the programs and services we provide, our grantmaking guidelines and giving philosophies, upcoming events, on line publications and so much more!
Contact:
Seventh Generation Fund
P.O. Box 4569,
Arcata, CA 95518
or
Seventh Generation Fund
1062 G Street, Suite D,
Arcata, CA 95521
Phone: (707) 825-7640 |
Fax: (707) 825-7639
Email: of7gen@pacbell.net |
Website: www.7genfund.org
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