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Indigenous Resistance Is Climate & Social Justice.
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Empowering Indigenous Communities
We Train
We provide Nonviolent Direct Action training to Indigenous communities and organizations that request support for their own unique direct action campaigns.
We Organize
We develop Indigenous Centered Curriculum and organize trainings, Action Camps, and other events that build capacity and empower Indigenous Communties.
We Support
We support all Indigenous communities, organizations, and Tribal Governments preserving their traditional way of life through the protection of their homelands.
We Build
We work collaboratively on the ground to build capacity, community, and connections in Indian Country, to sustain our traditional way of life for all future generations.
We Have the Power to Impact Our Future, and We’re Doing Something About It
The Indigenous Peoples Power Project (IP3) is a non-profit 501c3, nonviolent direct action training and support network advancing Indigenous communities ability to exercise their inherent right to environmental justice, cultural livelihood, and self determination. Formed in 2004 as a project of the Ruckus Society, IP3 graduated from NDN Collective’s fiscal sponsorship cohort and became a non-profit in June 2020. We continue to work across Turtle Island with communities that are most vulnerable to threats of ecological devastation and resource exploitation, and most poised to lead solution-oriented action.
Our mission is to provide nonviolent direct action training, campaign support, and community organizing tools to support Indigenous communities taking action in defense of their homelands.
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Build Indigenous Power with IP3
This Giving Tuesday, get in the spirit of Building Indigenous Power with IP3! As Indigenous Peoples Power Project moves into the new year, we are raising funds to support IP3 training programs, the IP3 Landback Project, and capacity building to support our mission of...
News From IP3
Karuk Tribes Return to Center of the World
On January 6th of this year, Congress signed into law Bill S.4439, the Katimiîn and Ameekyáaraam Sacred Lands Act which takes approximately 1,031 acres of specified lands in Siskiyou and Humboldt Counties, so-called California, into trust for the benefit of the Karuk...
Cobalt Refinery to Break Ground On Kiowa, Comanche, Apache Homelands
On February 27th, 2024, Land Defenders in Lawton, Oklahoma and members of Westwin Resistance sat in on a bi-weekly city council meeting to oppose the construction of a new cobalt, nickel, and manganese refinery by Westwin Elements, a company that have used deceitful...
2023 : A Year In Community
What's good relatives? We hope you all had a restful Winter Solstice, peaceful holidays with family, and a great start to the new year. As IP3 approaches its fourth year as a nonprofit (501c3), we remain grateful for and committed to the communities we serve, and for...
We Are Indigenous
And Mother Earth Is What Guides Us Forward
Our Top Priorities
We value the knowledge and experience that exists in Indigenous communities since time immemorial. As such, we don’t believe in parachute activism (when an individual or organization pops into a community). Parachute activisim can be harmful and dismissive of the knowledge and leadership that exists within that community. While it can be well intentioned , it often is a band aid that can be helpful in the short term, but in the long term may not build the capacity needed to address underlying issues. IP3 only goes where we are invited or our support is requested, and we work with local leadership to collectively determine how we can add value to, strengthen, and build capacity in their current work.
IP3 works to uplift our relatives protecting and defending our land, air, water, culture and sovereignty across Turtle Island. These are a just handful of ongoing challenges that Indigenous communities face here and internationally.
Environmental & Social Justice
For Indigenous communities, environmental and social justice are inherently connected. Our communities are among the first impacted by extractive industries, oil pipelines, mining, data centers, resource extraction, and are the most poised to lead solution oriented action.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (ITK) is the knowledge and practices passed from generation to generation informed by cultural memories, connection to land, sensitivity to change, and values that include reciprocity with the understanding that Mother Earth is a living being.
Kumeyaay
The sovereign homelands of the Kumeyaay, T’ohono O’odham and Hia Ced-O’odham Nations are currently being encroached by the construction of a border wall between Mexico and Turtle Island.
Mauna Kea
Native Hawaiians began the Mauna Kea movement to protect their sacred mountain from the construction of a Thirty Meter Telescope. Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain peak in Hawaii.
Tiny House Warriors
The Tiny House Warriros movement is a group of indigenous activists commited to protecting their homelands; Secwepamc unceded territory from the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline.
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