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Growing up in my community of Kewa Pueblo, NM, I was directly immersed in the intangible aspects of Indigenous Sovereignty. From speaking our language to participating in cultural events to eating our traditional foods, I practiced and lived #IndigenousSovereignty at a local level. But after traveling through the beautiful countries of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala for three weeks, I learned what Indigenous Sovereignty means at the International level. It’s about family, culture, and connection to the land but more importantly, it meant the right for communities to govern their lands and resources. These are the stories I listened to while eating baleadas, drinking coffee and hiking majestic volcanoes, with the people who live this practice every day.

Our film ‘Rooted’ just became available to watch at the link in our bio 🎬🎬

6. Advancing Environmental and Human Health. For 25 years, we have been working with our partners and local community members to design clean cookstoves that greatly reduce deadly indoor air pollution, deforestation, and high fuel costs.The Justa Stove helps protect the environment and improves people’s health and economy:

5. Doña Justa. Doña Justa Nuñez is one of the rare ones. Fed up with respiratory issues that plagued her and her friends in her community, she launched a women-led initiative to get smoke out of people’s kitchens. Driven by a vision of better health and a cleaner environment, she got the attention of nonprofit organizations working with her local church, who set out to design a better wood-burning cookstove in her village.

What a crew. What a beautiful community. What a blast it was to be with you all this Sunday. Thank you for helping us celebrate two and a half decades of our partnerships. We are so grateful and words can do no justice to how lucky we are to do this work 💚 Cheers to the next 25 years of helping people and the planet. 🥂

At the beginning of the year, in El Salvador, we had the privilege to visit a new community women’s group called: “Asociación de Desarrollo Comunal Integral de Mujeres Emprendedoras” - ADECIME, in Caserio Hacienda La Labor. This group of 50 #women are working as co-managers of the buffer zone of La Labor (40 hectares), where they are working on creating fire breaks, planted 200 trees for reforestation, and are protecting their water basin that supplies 3 surrounding communities.

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Photo of the Week: Expanding the Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center

S959564A0 — The new training annex at the Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center (RCREC) will add much needed space to the RCREC campus, including larger dorms, a commercial kitchen, classroom space, and a demo room.

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Posted on October 28, 2011Author treeswaterpeopleCategories Photo of the Week, Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center, Tribal Renewable Energy ProgramTags green job training, Lakota, Native Americans, Photo of the Week, Pine Ridge

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