Description

With this core support from the Luce Foundation, Co-Lead Noe will be able to continue to work, in close collaboration with Project Co-Lead Professor Kristen Carpenter of the University of Colorado Law School, to develop the Project vision, lead team members, conduct outreach, continue developing relationships with Indigenous Peoples and other partners, build coalitions, formulate strategy, supervise and engage in research, draft workshop materials and other documents and publications, facilitate and participate in in-person and webinar workshops, engage in advocacy in relevant international forums such as the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (“UNPFII”) and the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (“EMRIP”), organize and facilitate educational side events at various national meetings (e.g., meetings of the National Congress of American Indians) and international forums (e.g., UNPFII, EMRIP, and the World Intellectual Property Organization), facilitate and support Tribal leader participation in international forums, and engage in fundraising for additional/ongoing funding of the Project’s work. Having sufficient, focused team member hours devoted to the Project is critical to build on the momentum of the work completed thus far and to expand the Project’s impact and reach.
 
This $100,000 grant will provide bridge support to the project which is focused on educating, training and providing tools and resources to tribal leaders and attorneys on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Overall, the focus of this grant is to support Tribes as they work to implement the UNDRIP in their Nations and in the US political system. This is important work and directly relates to IKI goal 1b: To ensure that knowledge makers and keepers have access to and are supported by a robust infrastructure of organizations, programs, projects, and resources.
Over the next year, the project team will host in-person and virtual trainings for tribal leaders, complete publications, resources and tools for tribal leaders including the following: Toolkit for Utilizing the UN Declaration in Native Hawaiian Advocacy; Tribal Guide to the United Nations; Law Students’ Guide to the UN Declaration; and Operationalizing Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in the Context of Conservation and Development: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Land, Water, and Territories.