Native American Indian Heritage Month: Governance & Advocacy

Serves the broad interests of tribal governments and communities.

A division of NCAI, their mission is to lead, conduct, and translate high quality policy research and data to improve outcomes for Indian Country.

An interdisciplinary, international membership-based organization comprised of scholars working in the fields of Native American and Indigenous Studies broadly defined. They produce the NAIS Journal.

Serves and empowers Native journalists through programs and actions designed to enrich journalism and promote Native cultures.

A community of international, interdisciplinary, and intersectional scholar-activists who are committed to cultivating knowledge and information across borders. Our community’s vision is to develop knowledge justice tools for dismantling white supremacy and oppressive hierarchies as they manifest in spaces of work, education and society.

Part of the US Department of the Interior, their mission is to enhance the quality of life, to promote economic opportunity, and to carry out the responsibility to protect and improve the trust assets of American Indians, Indian tribes and Alaska Natives.

The California State Government established the Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC) as the primary government agency responsible for identifying and cataloging Native American cultural resources.

The primary purpose of the Commission is to increase the acquisition and application of funding resources to the socioeconomic problems of American Indians in Los Angeles City and County.

A federal health program for American Indians and Alaska Natives. Includes some data under the menu item Community Health - Data Visualization.

Fosters collaborative research and community service relationships between the faculty, staff, and students of CSU San Marcos and members of Tribal communities, for the purpose of developing and conducting research projects that support the maintenance of sovereignty and culture within those communities.

The core objectives of AISC are to: facilitate and disseminate research about indigenous peoples; strengthen graduate and undergraduate education; seek extramural funds to support student and faculty research; and carry out university and public service programs related to the Center’s mission.

Their mission is to lead the grassroots fight to protect Native American Cultural Sovereignty.

Provides legal assistance to indigenous peoples of the Americas to combat racism and oppression, to protect their lands and environment, to protect their cultures and ways of life, to achieve sustainable economic development and genuine self-government, and to realize their other human rights.

An Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power. They create sustainable solutions on Indigenous terms through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grantmaking, capacity-building and narrative change.

CWIS is an organization of activist advancing indigenous rights and knowledge in areas such as environment, medicine, education, government, law, and economic development.

Legal and research resources related to federal Indian and tribal law.

Reclaiming Native Truth is a national effort to foster cultural, social and policy change by empowering Native Americans to counter discrimination, invisibility and the dominant narratives that limit Native opportunity, access to justice, health and self-determination. Reclaiming Native Truth’s goal is to move hearts and minds toward greater respect, inclusion and social justice for Native Americans.

ILTF is a national, community-based organization serving American Indian nations and people in the recovery and control of their rightful homelands. They work to promote education, increase cultural awareness, create economic opportunity, and reform the legal and administrative systems that prevent Indian people from owning and controlling reservation lands.