We need to imagine new frameworks for law and policy that articulate with specificity what Native people envision as a more just system, one that acc… - Dina Gilio-Whitaker

wherever, whatever kind of project that youʼre talking about, you must include Native voices and governments when appropriate. If we start there, then we create patterns of un-erasure and take meaningful steps in accordance with respect to Native people.

for us as Native people, “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is not what we are working towards. It has to be anti-colonial. Any diversity and equity or anti-racist work that doesn’t include an anti-colonial commitment just perpetuates further erasure. We need to have the language for that.

Climate change’s growing urgency demands nothing less than our seat at the table — for the sake of our children and the seven generations to come.