POLICY & VOTING
ORGANIZING
POLICY & VOTING
At NDN Collective, we approach building Indigenous power through a multifaceted approach. We organize from the grassroots level, supporting Indigenous movement-building projects across Turtle Island that are determined by and for Indigenous Peoples.
We also recognize the value of being at the table and asserting ourselves unapologetically as Indigenous people on matters of state, federal, and international policy, where decisions are made that impact our communities, lands and lifeways.
To that end, NDN actively engages in policy and political work, advocating for climate justice and equity-oriented policy through lobbying and informing federal agencies, elected officials and policymakers at the state and national levels to advance Indigenous rights, Tribal Sovereignty, and environmental and climate protections.
INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY
CLIMATE JUSTICE IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM
NDN Collective supports Tribes and Indigenous Peoples in building a justice based transition by creating engagement strategies and pathways for Tribes and Indigenous communities to engage with the opportunities available to them in the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
VOTER ENGAGEMENT
Our voter engagement and electoral work focuses heavily on voter engagement and election protection through education, outreach, coalition building, and voting rights advocacy. NDN Collective believes that the right to fair voting access is one necessary tool to ensure American Indian, Alaska Native and Indigenous Peoples living in this country are able to adequately use their voice to: Exercise treaty rights, hold the U.S. government accountable to its trust obligations, protect land and sacred places, water, natural resources, and species, advocate for inclusion in K-12 curriculum, elect representatives with shared values and goals, advocate for community needs such as adequate healthcare, education, housing and infrastructure, racial equity, and much more.
Learn more about our vote work here.
Voter Resources
Know Your Rights Voter Guide
The Know Your Rights Voter Guide is a tool to help individuals develop a strategy to ensure their votes are included in upcoming elections. We are seeing many efforts to suppress and intimidate voters in working class Black and Brown communities. These efforts are driven by forces that would like to see our communities silenced and we have to be vigilant to ensure those efforts are not successful. This means that we cannot take our ability to vote for granted. This tool outlines the steps you need to take in order to make a plan, observe any potential threats and how to report any voter suppression or intimidation tactics you see or experience.
Our voices and votes matter and we must be strategic when participating.
Vote Like a Radical
Know Your Candidate Guide
The Know Your Candidate Guide is a tool to assist individuals and communities in assessing candidates who are seeking their votes. It is very important that voters think about what is most important to them when they decide who to vote for. Elections are not just popularity contests; people in elected office make critical decisions that impact our lives on a daily basis. The Know Your Candidate Guide offers guidance on what we should be looking for in candidates as it relates to issues that are important to Indigenous communities that are part of the NDN Collective network.
The guide lists a handful of important issues that were identified as priorities by NDN Collective partners and the LandBack Action Network. The guide highlights things we should be looking for in candidates in order to determine if those candidates are aligned on those issues. The tool also highlights that this is also part of the process that we should employ when holding officials accountable once they are in office. The guide is a tool that should help develop and sharpen the political analysis for every Radical Voter while helping to influence how good public policy is shaped.
