Indigenous Peoples Organizations

The Arctic Athabaskan Council was founded in 2000. At that time it represented approximately 32,000 indigenous peoples of Athabaskan descent. Today there are council members in Alaska (including fifteen traditional villages)...

Coastal First Nations is a unique alliance of nine Nations living on British Columbia’s North and Central Coast and Haida Gwaii. Each Nation has its own distinct culture, governance and territory.

Green Africa Foundation was founded in Kenya in 2000 with a focus of implementing practical hands-on community driven projects aimed at greening the African continent.

Gwich’in Council International (GCI) represents 9,000 Gwich’in in the Northwest Territories (NWT), Yukon, and Alaska as a Permanent Participant in the Arctic Council; the only international organization where Indigenous...

Indigenous Information Network (IIN) is a non-profit, volunteer-run non-governmental organization (NGO) registered in the Republic of Kenya. The organization was founded in 1996 by a group of professionals in response to...

Founded in 1977 by the late Eben Hopson of Barrow, Alaska, the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) has flourished and grown into a major international non-government organization representing approximately 180,000 Inuit of Alaska...

Kenya Forest Service is a state corporation that was created through the Forest Act, 2005 (now repealed). The Service derives her mandate from the Forest Conservation and Management Act (FCMA), 2016. Their mission relies on...

MPIDO envisions a just and equitable society that recognize and upholds human rights and the fundamental freedom of indigenous peoples’. As indigenous people in Africa undergo political, economic and social challenges, MPIDO...

Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Kenya is the Kenyan country chapter of the PELUM Association and has a membership of 57 Member Organizations. PELUM Kenya network promotes agroecological principles and...

The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) provides natural resource management expertise, conservation enforcement, legal and policy analysis, and public information services in support of the exercise of...

The Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health (TICAH) believes holistic health and culture are connected. They believe that culture shapes everything and that it is a marker of a healthy community. They believe we experience...