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Black Elk wins Catholic leadership award from FADICA

Black Elk wins Catholic leadership award from FADICA

Statement on Vice President Kamala Harris's Meeting with Tribal leaders and Leaders from American Indian and Alaska Native

Date Time Share Statement on Vice President Kamala Harris’s Meeting with Tribal leaders and Leaders from American Indian and Alaska Native The White House Today Vice President Kamala Harris hosted a discussion in her ceremonial office to engage with Tribal leaders and leaders from American Indian and Alaska Native communities about voting rights. She was joined by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. The Vice President thanked the participants for their work to protect voting rights, and they discussed ways to make voting more accessible. During the meeting, the leaders shared how Native Americans have long faced challenges to exercise their fundamental right to vote–from the long distance voters must travel to reach their polling places to anti-voter laws that directly impact Tribal communities. The leaders also shared how they are engaging voters–and in particular young voters–in their communities, by connecting the issues they care about to their vote.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary Deb Haaland: Native American Voting Rights

Our home, our story

In September 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, WWF worked with Indigenous leaders and photographer Jason Houston to gather stories from Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Here, four members of the Oglala Lakota Nation share, through their own words and images, stories from their lives. Monica Terkildsen WWF Native Nations liaison and a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Monica facilitates Indigenous conservation efforts and works to bring the will of her people to the management of their land. I am of the grass, plants, and trees, the root nation that sways in the winds of the prairie of the Northern Great Plains, storing carbon and returning oxygen to the world above. I am of the soil, that holds the very footprints and knowledge of my ancestors and provides life and vision for me. I am Oglala Lakota, Indigenous to this land, to this space, and I want to share with you the story of this place.