Indigenous Peoples Organizations

Onaway envision a world where Indigenous tribes can live their traditional lifestyles, preserving their knowledge, skills, and traditions to ensure a sustainable future for their people. We work alongside Indigenous people...

In the 1960s, the indigenous peoples joined the struggles for land led by the peasant sectors. Subsequently, in the 1970s, the creation of the Cauca Regional Indigenous Council (CRIC) led to the creation of different regional...

The Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC) represents the collective interests of 29 Friendship Centres in cities and towns across the province. Friendship Centres improve the lives of urban Indigenous...

The Native Amazon Operation (OPAN) is the first indigenous organization founded in Brazil, in 1969. For 52 years, OPAN has been working to strengthen indigenous leadership in the regional scenario, valuing their culture and...

The General Organization of Mayuruna has the objective of fighting for development and for cultural valorization, in addition to the defense of the Matsés right and territory.

We are an indigenous organization that works in 15 basins (Putumayo, Napo, Tigre, Corrientes, Marañón, Yaquerana, Bajo Amazonas, Ucayali) and has the wisdom of 15 indigenous peoples and 21 base federations whom it represents...

The ORPIA Regional Indigenous Organization is an association created in 1993, which brings together representatives of the 20 indigenous peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon.

PACOS Trust is a community-based organization dedicated to supporting indigenous communities in Sabah. Although registered under the Trustees Ordinance (Sabah) only in 1997, we have been actively involved with communities...

We at Papatūānuku Kōkiri marae continue to honour and nurture the kakano the collective of Kaumatua and Kuia from the different tribal affiliations that supported the vision of whaea Mere. To foster and grow our whānau...

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...

POINT (Promotion of Indigenous and Nature Together) was established in March 2012. It is started as a response to the lack of organization led by “Indigenous Peoples” working for Indigenous Peoples’ issues in Myanmar. In the...

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...