Indigenous Peoples Organizations

The Ashaninka do Rio Amônia Association – Apiwtxa (a term that means union) was created in 1991 as a strategy to strengthen our community. It works as an operational arm of the community so that we can manage our projects and...

Founded in 1987, FOIRN represents 23 indigenous peoples from the Rio Negro, in an area that encompasses the municipalities of Barcelos, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro and São Gabriel da Cachoeira, in Amazonas.

The Indigenous Heartland Organization (IHO) was formulated and registered in Tanzania as a nonprofit making organization, to facilitate the empowerment and development of indigenous people living in or adjacent to protected...

We Mẽbêngôkre (or Kayapó) communities created, in 2001, the Raoni Institute to defend the interests of our people. IR is a non-profit, non-partisan Civil Society Organization of Public Interest located in the city of Peixoto...