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We are in unity here, the elders with the young ones, and all around us and above us and under us, we're breathing unity right now. I pray that this unity continues to happen in circles everywhere, that people all over become one again. — Margaret Behan,
Red Spider Woman, Arapaho-Cheyenne 
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We support projects initiated or substantially managed from within Native communities that protect, strengthen and encourage the flourishing of Indigenous Peoples, their culture and worldview. Through our Re-grants programs with several Native American organizations, we support projects that focus on the revitalization and preservation of indigenous languages, as well as the protection of sacred traditions, ways of living and sacred sites.
Our programming also includes direct grants for work that bridges the teachings and wisdom of indigenous cultures with the challenges we are facing in our current planetary crisis.
Please see Representative Grants for examples of our funding in this area.
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International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
The Grandmothers Alliance Statement: We are the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. We have united as one. Ours is an alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children and for the next seven generations to come. We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking and healing are vitally needed today. We come together to nurture, educate and train our children. We come together to uphold the practice of our ceremonies and affirm the right to use our plant medicines free of legal restriction. We come together to protect the lands where our peoples live and upon which our cultures depend, to safeguard the collective heritage of traditional medicines, and to defend the earth Herself. We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future. We join with all those who honor the Creator, and to all who work and pray for our children, for world peace, and for the healing of our Mother Earth. |
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