INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY
In recognition of U.S. Indigenous Peoples Day, we're sharing links to two organizations that are doing good work.
Native Seeds / SEARCH
Native Seeds/SEARCH (NS/S) is a nonprofit seed conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona. Our mission is to conserve and promote the arid-adapted crop diversity of the Southwest in support of sustainable farming and food security. Native Seeds/SEARCH seeks to find, protect and preserve the seeds of the people of the Greater Southwest so that these arid adapted crops may benefit all peoples and nourish a changing world. Learn More
Navaho & Hopi Families Relief Fund
The Relief Fund was established March 15, 2020 when Ethel Branch, the former Navajo Nation Attorney General, started a GoFundMe Campaign to raise money to purchase food for a few remote Navajo and Hopi families with elders, immuno-compromised, or children. She was concerned that these high-risk families living in extreme food desert conditions on Navajo or Hopi (traveling an average of two hours to off-reservation grocery stores) would find nothing to purchase, have to search from store to store for essential items (and thus increase risk of exposure), and eventually leave empty-handed. . . . Our goal is to make our communities pandemic proof and climate change resilient. We never want to be this vulnerable again. Thus we have reserved some unrestricted funding to invest in a stronger future for our communities in the areas of food security, entrepreneurship, youth leadership, and housing. Learn More
About Indigenous Peoples Day
Indigenous Peoples Day celebrates and honors Native American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures. On October 8, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a presidential proclamation declaring October 11 to be a national holiday. [WikiPedia]
