HONOR THE EARTH ANNUAL REPORT 2013-14

Art generously donated to Honor the Earth by Michael Horse “How long are you going to let other people decide the future for our children? Are you not warriors? It’s time to stop talking and start doing. A long time ago when our ancestors rode into battle they didn’t know what the outcome was going to be but they did it because knew was in the best interest of the children, and people ’ didn t operate from a place of fear. Operate from a place of hope. Anything is possible but you need to take action. The movement is here, the time is now.

-­‐ Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation

Honor the rth Ea changed terrain this For year. twenty years we have worked in our communities, partnering with Indigenous peoples on the ground, and the grassroots, to protect sacred sites, languages, water, land and future generations from both the fossil fuel and nuclear industry, and to tainable create a sus and beautiful future. We continue.

This year, however, as a major energy corporation (the Enbridge Company) came to the homeland of the Anishinaabeg people, we were summoned to a larger and more courageous call – one of regional ional and nat organizing on fossil fuel issues, while deepening our work enewable on r energy. We are proud of our moment in history and for changing the terrain in northern Minnesota.

Michael Dahl and Lew Murray, of White Earth. The original In August of last year, the Enbridge 'protectors, not protesters'. Corporation announced a new pipeline proposal, which would push through the heartland of wild rice country in Anishinaabeg territory, moving up to 700, 000 barrels per day of Bakken fracked oil to a port in , Superior Wisconsin. We held a set of meetings, wrote articles, and launched what is now the Sandpiper Alliance, joining non-­‐Indian lakeshore owners conce and rned Minnesota citizens with the Anishinaabeg people of northern Minnesota. We have strengthened our grassroots partnerships while also allying ourselves with national environmental organizations such as 350.org and the Sierra Club, with new alliances forming with the Center for Biological Diversity, Fractivist, One Billion Rising, and others to challenge the oil expansions. Our work has changed terrain, and our work has changed us.

Nationally, we were called to a higher level of engagement. We presented, wrote and moved into community partnerships in Crow, Northern Cheyenne, Lummi, Cree, and other people of the Athabasca River system, Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara people and stronger elationships r in Dine Bii This Kaya. work was paralleled with stronger relationships with funding allies -­‐ the Santa Fe Tobacco Company, Frances Fund and Kalleopeia, as well as the Women’s Donor Network, all of whom we are incredibly

Lorna Haynes at Reject and Protect. 2 grateful to, because their support has enabled us to grow our regranting program. n I the upcoming years we hope that we will continue to expand this work. We know that resources are needed to make the change in our communities, changes which will protect our children and all future generations.

The Path which is not scorched.

We find that we must oppose the destruction of Mother Earth, and we know that we are doing the right thing We also know that the answers as to where we are going are very clear and, as an organization, we intend to work in this arena: restoration of traditional foods, renewable energy, protection of sacred sites, hemp, and restorative So economics. it is that we have been called into economics. This is to say, that we are strong in the field, particularly in the arena of Full cost Accounting, and the building of a field of Indigenous Economics. We began this work in the past year, both providing critical testimony and analysis on fossil fuels and extreme mining projects, as well as developing the basis for an Indigenous Economics Workbook, intended for Indigenous Studies Departments nationally and internationally.

We also began two new renewable energy projects on the White Earth reservation in partnership with Trees Water and People, and Lakota Solar Enterprises. We also have expanded this work on the Crow reservation olar in s and wind energy. We will continue and deepen this work.

In the upcoming year we will deepen our resistance to to fossil fuels expansion, work defeat a pipeline proposal (the Sandpiper), resistance support to fracking Mandan, in Hidatsa and Arikara territories (Bakken fields), and at Standing -­‐ Rock where the Hunkpapa are also faced with fracking expansions. We will write tribal policies on , fracking water protection and integrated agricultural economics. We will support the grassroots organizations and community leaders working toward a good future We for their people. will create curriculum

Winona and her grandson Giiwedin Buckanaga at a on renewable energy and economics. And we will nurture the next generations. Please join us. post Love Water Not Oil tour in front of the Enbridge offices in Bemidji, MN. Miigwech,

Winona LaDuke – Executive Director

3 Let us tell you some stories of the people, the land, the water and their courage:

Lummi and Crow

“The Tide is out and the table is set…” Justin Finkbonner gestures to the straights on the edge of the Lummi reservation. This is the place where the Lummi people have gathered their food for a It millennium. is a rich land of shellfish and food for a people. This is a fragile and very bountiful ecosystem, part of the Salish Sea, newly corrected in it’s naming by cartographers. When the tide goes out, the Lummi fishing people go to their boats -­‐ one of the largest fishing fleets in any Indigenous community, they feed their families, and they fish for their economy.

This is also the place where corporations fill their tankers or ships to travel into the Pacific and beyond. It is one of only a few deep water ports in the region, and a coal terminal is proposed. That new terminal is being pushed by a few big corporations, and one Indian nation-­‐ the Crow Nation, which needs someplace to sell coal it would like to mine, in a new deal with Cloud Peak Energy. The deal is a big one: l.4 billion tons of coal. And that coal is to be sold overseas, because it turns out, there have been no new coal plants in the US for, well thirty years, and so Cloud Peak and the Crow hope to find their fortunes in China. The mine is called Big Metal, named after a Crow legendary hero.

The place they want to put a port, which could accommodate huge oil tankers and coal barges is called Cherry Point, or Xwe’chi’eXen. And, this is sacred to the Lummi. There is a 3500 year old village site here. The Hereditary Chief of the Lummi Nation, tsilixw (Bill James), describes it as the “home of the Ancient Ones.”

Coal interests, including Cloud Peak, Arch Coal, Peabody and Westmoreland hope to construct North America's largest coal export terminal on the "home of the Ancient Ones." Once there, coal would be loaded onto some of the largest bulk carriers in the world to China. In response to this, Jewel James, with the Lummi ‘House of Tears Carvers’ carved a 19ft totem pole to bring healing and protection to Lummi lands. The lummi have created this totem pole tradition to bring these healing symbols to areas in need of hope, healing and those places struck – by disaster this time they are carrying this to their home territories. The Lummi nation is saying “Kwel hoy’: “We draw the line.” The sacred must

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Three times in 2013-­‐14, we were requested to go to the Lummi reservation, to support their protection of Xwe’chi’eXen, the home of the ancient ones. We came at their request, and we spoke with and for the people and shared their stories. And, then in February of 2014, we were asked to present the story of fossil fuel economics to the Northwest -­‐ Tribal Leadership Summit the tribal leaders of 50 First nations. The Crow nation had been implicated in this story, because the Crow nation has coal which they are proposing to get the market. We have challenged these economics, allied ourselves with grassroots organizations and most recently the Crow Landowners association to create a wind energy project on their lands. We will return, and work to create the full project in 2014-­‐l5.

Navajo-­‐ Dine Bii Kaya

We provided granting support for a number of grassroots organizations in the southwest, working on permaculture, restorative no eco mics, protection of their sacred sites and opposition to uranium n mi ing and fossil As fuels. of 2005, following sickness among the Navajo from uranium mining, the tribal council enacted the Dine Natural Resources , Protection Act which bans uranium mining and processing on tribal land. On July 22, 2014, the Department of Justice’s subcommittee, established to negotiate with Uranium Resources Inc. – who required permission from the council to conduct in situ recovery of uranium was dissolved, a great victory for the Navajo nation. We continue our partnership with grassroots organizers on the Navajo reservation, particularly in opposition to coal strip mining. Our partners include Black Mesa Water Coalition, Dine CARE, and I am Art.

“….In the far back times of the Dine people, Monsters roamed the lands. And in those times, there were great beings who were called upon to slay the monsters. We need some modern era monster slayers….” Anna Rondon – Dine

It is perhaps those in. times aga A battle is raging, between major forces -­‐ traditional Dine people who seek to maintain a way of life between Sisnajini, six sacred mountains Tsoodzil, Dook'o'oosliid, Dibe Nitsaa, Dzil Na'oodilii, Dzil Ch'ool'i'i and the economics of fossil fuels. All of these are the challenges of a tribal government in a difficult position.

So here is the What question: would you do if you were BHP Billiton, the largest mining company in the world and industry analysts told you that “small coal is not financially viable”? And as you looked out at the US coal market you found that your team of major coal companies had seen their profits and share prices drop 20-­‐30%, including Patriot Coal’s bankruptcy with $3.6 billion in assets? Meanwhile in your boardroom, de insi

5 analysts suggested that one mine in particular wouldn’t be making the cut on portfolio? If you were really smart you might start talking to the Navajo nation about a plan, and maybe a buy out of your thirty year old coal strip mine.

This scenario is playing out in the Navajo nation; high pressure negotiations, and higher stakes. Over 60% of the Navajo general budget comes from fossil fuels royalties, and there are thousands of Navajos employed by the -­‐ industry it is the largest employer after all. Consultants for the Nation reported that up to $80 million in annual revenues were projected to result from the Navajo Mine and associated coal fired power plants, including Four Corners Generating Station, and Navajo Generating Station, both of which are scheduled for closure within the next decade due to the need for costly environmental upgrades, and declining coal markets. We intend to support the opposition to the continuation of a fossil fuel economy at Navajo.

Cheyenne and Spirit Mountain

Arch Coal is trying to strip mine the Northern Cheyenne homeland, and we are interested in stopping them. We are interested because, the coal would destroy the Cheyenne people, add billions of pounds of carbon to the atmosphere, inefficient and fuel some very coal plants in Anishinaabe territory -­‐ Minnesota Power, which in turn hopes to use that coal to create a huge mining complex for copper in the heart of the Great Lakes basin, destroying water and life. The company is the second largest supplier of coal in the US, and the proposed Otter Creek Mine would be the largest proposed coal mine in the lower 48 states -­‐ 1.3 billion tons of At coal. hearings, l70 Cheyenne came out to oppose the mine and the railroad.

“We believe our community will bear the brunt of the negative impacts from the Otter Creek mine. Sacrificing the land, water, animal and plant life for mining and money is not worth what our ancestors fought and gave their life.” Tom Mexican Cheyenne explained in the testimony. We are “…worried about the crime, accidents, drugs and other social issues that come along with boomtowns that our Tribe is not equipped to handle. We are being asked to deal with this so that a transnational corporation can make billions of dollars shipping coal ” to Asia. A local alliance between the Cheyennes and local ranchers has so far been successful at preventing Arch Coal from receiving a permit to actually build the line from the state of Montana.

“This destruction you companies call opportunity will devastate my homelands that my ancestors fought and died for,” Vanessa Braided Hair explained. “I will not stand by and let you Army Corps of Engineers further destroy and pollute the water, air, land, and future of Cheyenne people….These coal mines will be built on my family’s original homestead. I do not want our country to be the sacrificial lamb for China. Consider alternative energies. Let’s go beyond coal, and stop the destruction of Mother Earth.” 6

Here we are working with allies at the o Sierra Club and Ec Cheyenne as well as many traditional leaders in the community.

Athabasca River Basin

Then we traveled to the North, strengthening our relationship with the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. These livelihoods, way of life and land are being devastated by the destructive extractive processes enforced on the people and land of Athabasca. The place was Ft. McMurray Canada, a city about the size of Fargo, but lacking in infrastructure. That’s because it is the boom town for the Alberta Tar Sands, rent is $4, 600 a month for a house, men are bussed out for their l2 hour shifts, or live in Man camps. It is perhaps the most international small city in Canada, and it is a very challenging place.

It is also the home of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. The conference, “As Long as the River Flows”, took place in the only Leeds gold certified building in Alberta, a center owned by the Athabasca Chipewyan, (complete with solar panels) and brought together a former director of Syncrude, Canada, former Premier of Alberta, leaders, doctors, scientists and Honor the Earth. The keynote speaker was Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who said,

“The urgency of our responsibility to take action has never been clearer. Every day hundreds of millions of lives and livelihoods are effected by global warming. The struggle of individuals against the pipelines and oil sands put them at the front of the most important struggle today...Oil sands not only devastates our shared climates, and is also stripping away the rights of first nations to protect their land from being poisoned. The oil companies have benefited from everything…they have taken the food out of our plates, and water from our cups. Who can stop this? We can stop this ...we can... you, and I can stop this, and it is not just that we can stop it. We have a responsibility to do so.“

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Fossil fuels in the Northern plains and Great Lakes

We understand fully the implications of extreme extraction. Our Great Lakes, 20% of the world’s freshwater – a finite resource, demanding protection, is the homeland of the Anishinaabe people. Thousands of years and generations of tradition rely upon this resource, in a clean, productive state. A hundred and fifty years ago, prior to industrialization, the land provided well for those who -­‐ lived here abundant maple stands, producing hundreds of thousands of pounds of maple sugar, one of the strongest and most abundant fisheries in the world and hundreds of thousands of acres of natural wild rice beds. There still remains significant natural wealth, which can continue to support many people – and our communities an indigenous economy.

Fracking has expanded to the majority of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara nations, (Ft. Berthold) and if unchecked will lay to waste that land, water and people. There are l000 wells there now, and there basically is, no regulation. It is egregious. We traveled there this fall, after a 200 mile ride along a proposed fracked oil , pipeline the Sandpiper route which would begin there.

Our Executive Director Winona LaDuke was asked to respond on a panel of oil proponents at the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association -­‐ a leadership conference. That is where we launched our organizing campaign -­‐ there is no way we could step away, as not only is the pipeline headed towards our homeland, but the Mandan, Arikara and Hidatsa people deserve to live the life their ancestors left them. The fact is that a new pipeline for the Bakken fracked oil is proposed to go from North Dakota into Minnesota, on a new line which would cross through our sacred wild rice beds. The Enbridge company is also seeking to expand the Alberta Clipper pipeline from 440,000 barrels to 800,000 barrels per day of dilbit, or tar sands oil, along with expansions proposed for Line 3 (to 800,000 barrels per d ay).

This is in addition to the proposed and highly contentious Keystone XL line, which, if it comes on line will add 880,000 barrels per day into the North American fossil fuel pipelines. A third pipeline, called the Sandpiper, will move fracked oil through the north country, crossing pristine watersheds, the headwaters of the Mississippi and then poured into a set of newly proposed refinery expansions, pipelines and possibly tankers in the Great Lakes region. All of this puts our water and our future generations at risk. Our White Earth Community Organizer Michael Dahl was responsible for a massive community education campaign to mobilize protectors of our lakes and sacred ways of life. This organizing, along with the dedicated work of 8 Alyssa Hoppe, our Community Organizer in the Duluth area, lead us to seeing a growing community opposition and leadership on Sandpiper opposition.

We have had an aggressive an active presence in the opposition to the Sandpiper pipeline at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, and after many, many days of work, we are seeing some progress, as the Minnesota PUC has determined that new routes need to be considered and made things a bit more complicated for the Enbridge Corporation. Our work has been to inform northern residents, work with tribal governments and attorneys to protect the legal rights of the Anishinaabeg to our territories in the north, and continue to oppose the PUC’s determinations, particularly since we do not believe that a state agency should have sole regulatory authority over treaty guaranteed rights and resources. We are particularly proud of our new and emerging leadership in this work, including Charlie Thayer now ( a Bush Foundation Fellow and a recent graduate of Hamline University) as well as Michael Dahl.

Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides

Emerging from a dream was a vision to ride our horses against the proposed Alberta-­‐Clipper pipeline and its proposed expansion of dilbit, or tar sands oil. This is not what an organization does, but it is what we did, and it opened a space that we feel is spiritual, and about social We change. rode this line, here in northern Minnesota in late September, where we met with hundreds of the native and non-­‐native peoples of the communities d affected an a good deal of press. We also rode near our own billboards-­‐ billboards to challenge the Enbridge tar sands oil expansion. We continued our ride with the Lakota nation against the proposed route of Keystone pipeline which will add 880,000 barrels day per , a pipeline which would destroy their water – the Ogallala Aquifer.

Then we rode our horses along the proposed route of the Sandpiper fracked oil pipeline, as a final ride for 2013 -­‐ drawing major attention in the regional media. This pipeline is proposed to move 375,000 barrels per day of fracked oil from the Bakken Oil fields in North Dakota to Superior, through our 1867 treaty areas. This has all been proposed by Enbridge without consultation with the native people of this region. Following these rides we produced our YouTube video: Honor the Earth: Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides. 9

Reject and Protect: Washington DC

Following our Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides, we were invited to join our Lakota neighbors and the Cowboy and Indian Alliance to ride our horses in Washington DC, in April for Earth week. We set up camp on the National Mall calling on President Obama to reject the Keystone XL proposed pipeline, which would destroy these lands along with the largest freshwater aquifer in the USA -­‐ the Ogllala aquifer -­‐ and the way of life for many native and non-­‐natives living along this route. A circle of 9 tipi’s was erected around a sacred fire which burned for the week. Thousands gathered as we rode our horses to Capitol Hill, on the 26th April, both native and non-­‐native calling for an end to foolish choices which compromise our Mother Earth.

Our Media

Our media program expanded exponentially. Historically, Honor the Earth has been in a strong position in relationship to the print media. This year, we were able to grow into what will be in late 2014, a national radio program to be offered on PRX international, and on Native Voice One to Indigenous Radio how stations ( many across the country and how many in Canada, and now in our deo, vi youtube and other media territory. We also were able to write and submit major articles to regional and national publications including articles on the KXL pipeline and the Lakota, the Northern Cheyenne and the Mines in northern Minnesota, the Lummi and the Crow, and many pipeline projects. Our Executive Director began writing for Forum Communications, spanning 44 papers in the northern plains.

Restorative Indigenous Economics

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Anishinaabe Akiing: a world of water, land, islands, copper, medicines, food which grows on the water, sugar which comes from trees, and millions of beings-­‐ beings who have two legs, four legs, wings, fins and roots. These beings are a part of this land and a decision making. These beings have standing, just as as Mother Earth h standing as a living being. I have heard it said that “if you are not an environmentalist, you likely do not plan on staying on this planet”. -­‐ Or perhaps in Anishinaabemowin what is good for the land is good for the people….

9,500 years is a long time to live in a region. And, to -­‐ sustain life there communities, songs, dances, ceremonies -­‐ all means that resilience, adaptation and good thinking are essential. The mapping of a region is based on a paradigm. ed Land based peoples understand a land by sacr places, portages, maple sugaring areas, historic areas, wild rice beds, sturgeon spawning waters, and where the deer winter, bears hibernate, and medicines grow. Those places remain in Anishinaabe Akiing, the land to which we belong, although many of them are eclipsed and cordoned into smaller areas, not unlike our own reservations or reserves in Canada. In our history, we’ve done well, we have indeed lived mino-­‐bimaatiziiwin, the good life, in our region. And then we’ve had about a two hundred year hiatus, buttressed by an export economy based on over-­‐extraction, which has damaged our territories. We can restore much and are working towards that.

The Great Lakes region represents one fifth of the worlds’ freshwater and that freshwater is increasingly scarce. Historic exploitation of water resources, creation of wastewater and contamination has placed us in a very precarious position in terms of water for future generations. That is water, which is not just for humans, but for all of the relatives, whether they have wings, fins, roots, or paws.

Minnesota, historically, has focused on iron-­‐ore mining, however, tying in with the current economic unsustainable paradigm, there is high demand for copper and nickel to maintain the industrial approach. Polymet mining, involving sulfide, is an extreme extractive approach to mining, which releases sulfuric acid when water comes into contact with tailings and other mining materials, and is being proposed at this time. ”In places where this type of mining is common, acid mine drainage has a long and tragic history of contaminating, rivers, lakes, and groundwater” (Halley, S., undated). If such mining is approved, this would set a precedent for sulfide mining in Minnesota, contributing to irreversible, detrimental effects on our economy, environment and society as a whole.

Despite the promises of the Polymet/Glencore Corporations, there is only clear evidence that the water quality of our region will be diminished significantly. This has been discussed extensively in the Fond du Lac and Grand Portage band’s responses to the Environmental Impact Statements forwarded by the industry. We stand with them calling on a more comprehensive Environmental Impact Statement, taking into account cumulative impacts of

11 these proposals. We work to protect our indigenous economy and to further restore that, limiting our dependency on fossil fuels, introducing renewable energy, restoring traditional agriculture.

Renewable Energy Work

This past winter, Minnesotans saw residential propane prices triple during the coldest winter since 1979, peaking at $4.610 per gallon. With the 40% of its propane supply lost with the reversal of the Kinder Morgan operated Cochin line up to the Tar Sands, it would seem Minnesota would have to get used to what was an already steadily increasing propane price that is still at an all time high. Broadening the picture, Federal LIHEAP is now only reaching -­‐ 20% of low income households, and will no doubt reach even fewer after deeper cuts continue in the 2014 Fiscal Year. With economic factors such as these, in addition to the looming threats of climate change, the outlook for heating tribes in the north is expensive and dangerous. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe declared a state of emergency this winter due to a propane shortage, during which one woman froze to death in her home. The need for sustainable, dependable, and resilient energy sources is increasingly important. This makes an overdependence on unreliable propane market an increasingly small part of the energy and heating solution. Instead, Honor the Earth is focusing on the solar thermal option. The White Earth Solar Thermal Install and Training was a collaborative project, involving local and national organizations to provide the foundation for a renewable energy program with the potential to serve a local community with much needed heating assistance and employment opportunities. Honor the Earth was a core player in coordinating this project with the White Earth Land Recovery Project, and Ojibwe Wind LLC. With funding from Honor the Earth, Trees, Water, & People, and Clean Energy Resource Teams, the White Earth Land Recovery Project was able to host a solar thermal air heater training taught by Henry Red Cloud of Lakota Solar Enterprises, give away 10 solar air heaters, and contract 6 tribal members to install each heater.

During the spring of 2014, we started a solar drive on the White Earth Reservation through the radio station KKWE Niijii Radio, and local newspapers. All tribal members interested in installing solar air heaters, or in need of heating assistance, were encouraged to apply. 6 trainees and 10 homes were selected.

12 Henry drove to the WELRP th Office May 29 to spend the next 5 days instructing the 6 White Earth tribal members how to install solar air heaters on tribal homes. With him, he brought the 10 solar air heaters, manufactured by Lakota Solar Enterprises at the Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center in Pine Ridge South Dakota. This is our transitioning economy and we continue with this work, currently planning a large-­‐scale wind/solar

Photovoltaic installation.

Music, Friends and Supporters

Honor the Earth has always been about music and the power of the arts for our people. We have been blessed with a twenty tory year his with the Indigo Girls. And, the music that makes for our hearts, souls and communities. We have been blessed with Nahko and Medicine for the People, as well as Jennifer Kreisberg and Pura Fe from Ulali joining us. We are grateful. This year, we were able to do after show events with Bonnie Raitt in Moorhead, Minnesota, and meet new supporters and friends in Fargo, who joined us. We were also able to do an after show reception with our friends in Denver, at Red Rocks with the indigo Girls. They also joined us on Earth Day in Washington DC, with the Cowboys and Indians Alliance. We are very grateful to our musician allies.

Then, we are eternally grateful to the musicians who came out for our tours -­‐ joining us on horseback and on the front lines. Pura Fe played concerts for us in Washington DC, joined us on horseback and on our

Love Water Not Oil Tour. We also met new friends: Rising Appalachia, and were grateful to them, as well as Janet Thomas, Allison Alookchuk Warden, Frank Waln, Sonny Johnson, Charlie Parr, Annie Humphrey and many others who performed for us on the road, as we brought music to small towns across northern Minnesota, with our hearts, our horses, and our common need to protect our water.

And, there are artists. We are tremendously grateful to Michael Horse who donated our cover art, and many other contributing artists, including Margaret Campbell, Michael Dahl and Alyssa Hoppe who have been working to design, along with Nicole Wells, who designed our “protectors” t shirt art. It is with great pleasure that we are able to share their art.

Our Staff

With increasing demands on our work team we have seen our grow and evolve in this past year. 13

Executive Director: Winona LaDuke Founder and Executive Director, Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) works with the Board, comprised of three national music groups: the Indigo Girls, Medicine for the People and Ulali, as well as organizing/media allies, News from Indian Country, Indian Country Today, Niijii Radio and policy allies, Intertribal Council on Utility Policy. She is a rural development economist. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities with advanced degrees in rural economic development.

Daryl Frazier-­‐ Chief Financial Officer

Coreen Roy -­‐ White Earth Anishinaabe -­‐ Assistant and support staff.

Media:

Suze Leon – Hopi/Comanche fornia Cali Suze, a native activist and protector, joined our team in September 2013, in the lead in to our Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides. Her creativity, passion for de-­‐colonization, and leadership has made her a key asset to our media team with her producing YouTube videos such as the Honor the Earth: Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides.

Annie Banks – Victoria, British Colombia Annie, with a background of coordinating opposition to Tar Sands and protecting human rights, joined our media team February 2014. She oversees quality delivery of our Aabitoose show, highlighting environmental, native concerns via our community radio station – KKWE Niijii Radio.

Margaret Campbell – St. Paul, Minnesota Margaret has been part of Honor the Earth for five years now. She works extensively in our media, youth development, and educational materials . development

Jill Ninham-­‐ Oneida Nation Jill has worked with us as a volunteer and supporter for the past two years, and we are Community Organizer Michael Dahl with Honor very grateful for her experience in Indian country and immense grace in her organizing supporter, musician Bonnie Raitt at her concert in Fargo, where she talked to the audience about Honor's abilities. campaign for renewable energy. 14

Organizing:

Michael Dahl – White Earth Annishinaabe Our lead community organizer, Michael Dahl, a White Earth tribal member and spiritual leader works extensively highlighting the issues our community. He is at the forefront for mobilizing Indigenous people in opposition to pipeline proposals, meeting with tribal members and organizing.

Alyssa Hoppe – Duluth, Minnesota With a strong background in organizing, Alyssa started in Honor the Earth at the onset of our pipeline opposition work. She has been a vital and solid part of our team, conducting vast research on the PUC processes, timetable and ensuring we have been on point at every step in the process. She works closely alongside our attorney, Frank Bibeau.

Renewable Energy:

Thomas Ferrarell – Chicago, Illinois

A graduate from University of Illinois in Earth, Environment and Society which included coursework in Environmental Economics and renewable energy. He came on with an interest in applying an indigenous approach in actualizing the renewable energy potential in native communities. His leadership capabilities make him an ideal person to coordinate organizing against per the Sandpiper and Alberta Clip pipelines and the mining.

Legal Team:

Frank Bibeau, Esquire. White Earth Anishinaabe As our opposition to the proposed Sandpiper pipeline has shifted up a gear, we are now in the process of legally challenging Enbridge corporation. Frank, a tribal attorney, with expert knowledge on our treaty rights, has joined our team is representing Honor the Earth in this legal challenge. He is as well joined by Peter Erlinder, renowned human rights attorney, from Minneapolis.

Development:

Michelle McQuaid – Ireland Following her graduation with a Masters in Development Studies, Michelle joined Honor the Earth this past year. As a core part of the development team, Michelle is our -­‐ primary grant writer. She is also working on the development of our Indigenous Economics Program.

15 Regranting Program

In this past year we have regranted $167, 000 in partnership with our communities and our financial partners: the Kalleopeia Foundation, Frances Fund, and the Indigo We Girls. are in a very unique position, in that we are partnered with communities who are working to defend their most sacred places. Whether Mt. Taylor, one of the four sacred mountains of the Dine, or the Black Hills, the heart of everything that is.

Summary of Grantees 2013=2014

Alliance for a Just Society-­‐ Seattle, Washington The Alliance for a Just Society’s mission is to execute regional and national campaigns and build strong state affiliate organizations and partnerships that address economic, racial, and social inequities.

Cheyenne River Youth Project – Eagle Butte, SD Winyan Toka Win (Leading Lady) Garden The Cheyenne River Youth Project focuses on helping their youth reconnect with the land, their native values and sacred traditions along with promoting the health ty of the communi and is currently further expanding its Wiyan Toka Win Garden project to manifest broader and deeper impacts in the community.

Cultural Conservancy Sacred Land Project – San Francisco, CA The Cultural Conservancy organization is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of indigenous cultures and their ancestral lands. CC has a fifteen year history of working with indigenous communities locally in California, nationally throughout North America, and internationally, on environmental research and land protection, sacred site preservation, cultural revitalization, public education, and community empowerment. Their mission statement is: “to preserve the traditional cultures of native peoples, empowering them in the direct application of their traditional beliefs and practices on their ancestral lands.”

Dakota Resource Council – North Dakota This is Mandaree The Dakota Resource Council is currently seeking to continue supporting This is Mandaree, in their great work against the proposed oil refinery and the pollution and devastation it will cause on their land if this proposal becomes a reality. This is of core importance as they seek to protect their sacred lands and sites, creating an environment built on traditional spiritual and cultural values which supports their indigenous economy.

Documentary Educational Resources-­‐ Watertown, Massachusetts

16 The Documentary Educational Resources mission is to promote thought-­‐provoking documentary film and media for learning about the people and cultures of world; the they represent films with enduring values that record diverse cultural practices and beliefs, and films that reflect deep cultural knowledge.

Earth Lodge Movement – North Dakota The Earth Lodge Movement, which as a pioneering initiative in the native community, will serve as a model for building natural homes and a community that will reconnect people to their families, traditional values and the sacredness of the land and traditional building practices.

EcoCheyenne-­‐ Montana Cheyenne community members and allies located in the homelands southeastern of Montana are fighting to protect the Northern Cheyenne sacred homeland from the proposed Otter Creek coal strip mining and Tongue River Rail Road, while promoting renewable and sustainable energy which will allow protection of the communities traditional and cultural values.

Fort Berthold Community College-­‐ New Town, ND Honoring the Bottomlands Fort Berthold is documenting the Bottomlands era to help those who lived through the flooding of Garrison Dam and to strengthen the cultural identity and future resilience of the younger generations of the Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nations, and to revive the peoples’ cultural spiritual connection to Mother Earth.

Indian Peoples Action-­‐Montana Mocassins on the Ground Training Mocassins on the Ground is a nonviolent direct action training for indigenous peoples and allies. Their core aim is to protect Mother Earth. Through discussing and learning about the threats from tar sands and the proposed KXL pipeline they are developing strategies to stand up for sacred water and Mother Earth.

Indigenous Consultants, LLC Ensuring public discussions on important work to protect land, sacred sites, and cultural integrity of Native Hawaiians, giving them voice and driving change from within the community.

17 Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign of the Polaris Institute Having worked, extensively, nationally and internationally and lobbying UN bodies in relation to climate change, the Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign continue in their determined protection of sacred and native lands through seeking a moratorium on further tar sands expansion.

Ingrid Wahinawatoka El-­‐Issa Fund – New York In honor of Ingrid's memory and to continue the integrity for and spirit of Ingrid's work indigenous peoples, The Ingrid Washinawatok -­‐ El Issa Flying Eagle Woman Fund for Peace, Justice and Sovereignty, was established. The Flying Eagle Woman Fund commemorates, documents and remembers the life and works of Ingrid -­‐ Washinawatok El Issa through the publication of books, videos and other educational activities. In addition, the Fund will develop an infrastructure that promotes the betterment of indigenous peoples throughout the world through grant-­‐ making and scholarship efforts. The Fund will use the beliefs, actions and principles from the Draft Declaration of the Rights Indigenous Peoples that Ingrid advocated for in her international work to help guide its important work.

Inter-­‐Tribal Maple Syrup Producers Cooperative Working to protect the maple stands of the Anishinaabeg, a central part of the Anishinaabeg traditions, culture and economy by supporting a gathering of Anishinaabe maple syrup producers and creating a tribal maple syrup producers cooperative.

Lummi Totem Pole Project The Lummi people have created a tradition of carving and delivering totem poles as healing symbols to areas struck by disaster or otherwise in need of hope and healing. Now it is Lummi Nation’s own sacred landscape, Xwe’chi’eXen, that needs hope, healing and protection. The most imminent threat to the burial grounds and treaty rights associated with Xwe’chi’eXen comes from a proposal to build North America’s largest coal port on this sacred landscape.

The Medicine Wheel Model/Yellow Bird Natural Horsemanship Training & Spiritual Health Training The Medicine Wheel Model offers workshops and seminars covering topics such as Respect for Mother Earth, Respect for Diversity, Drug & Alcohol Prevention and Working with Adolescents-­‐ Rights of Passage. Yellow Bird, an Affiliate of Seventh Generation Fund is a grass roots organization founded by Phillip Whiteman Jr. and Lynette Two Bulls with the goal of providing programming to create social change by empowering our tribal youth, families and community.

18 Metis Horticulture & Heritage Society – Winnipeg, MB Foundations for a Regional Seed Library MHHS is working to lay the foundation for a regional seed library with the aim of pioneering an indigenous-­‐led regional seed library. The Indigenous economy is of core e importanc as this is built working from cultural and traditional knowledge based on integrity, respecting Mother Earth and her nurture. This seed bank builds a future and a system of sustainability for the indigenous community. This project is currently networking, collaborating and preparing for the 2014 growing season.

Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment-­‐New Mexico MASE is a coalition of grassroots communities that have been adversely impacted by the past contamination rn of uranium mining in northweste New Mexico and is currently working to stop the proposed Roca Honda uranium mine on Tsoodził (Mt. Taylor). Native American Educational Technologies – Hayward, WI Harvest Educational Learning Project HELP works to affect local decision servation. making and pre They work to oppose and reject any mining proposal as they strive to protect their sacred lands and environment. They endeavor to preserve the maple trees, the pure waters of the rivers and streams to support their local organic food based economy. Currently they are witnessing and supporting the whole local community as they turn into one large group of local food supporters and mining resistors.

Native American Land Conservancy-­‐ Indio, California The NALC works to protect sacred lands and strengthen Native American cultural identity while promoting cross-­‐cultural understanding. Their work focuses on protecting sacred landscapes and facilitating cross-­‐cultural communication about indigenous territories.

Nez Perce Tribe Water Resources Division – Lapwai, ID Nez Perce Tribe Water Division will keep up with their ongoing work on building resilience through energy efficiency, conservation, and educational outreach, with a particular focus on the youth, and connecting them to traditional ys lifewa and their land.

Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition – Huntington, WV The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition’s mission is to organize and maintain a diverse grassroots organization dedicated to the improvement and preservation of the environment through education, grassroots organizing and coalition building, leadership development and media outreach. Our work encompasses much of West Virginia. They stand in opposition to mountain-­‐top removal and the environmental pollutants created from misguided industrial practices.

Owe Aku – Manderson, SD Moccasins on the Ground Tour of Resistance Owe Aku’s history includes work to protect sacred sites, Treaty Rights, Human Rights, and various activities to revitalize the Lakota Way of Life. Owe Aku is working to provide information about the impacts of uranium mining and the KXL Tar sands pipeline along with a three day NVDA training program and to print a newspaper. 19

Painted Desert Demonstration Projects Inc. -­‐ Arizona The Star School located in Arizona on the Navajo Nation is developing a “Farm-­‐to-­‐School,” model for other Native American communities. They are collaborating to research and document state and federal requirements, certify the farm to supply public school meals, strengthen gardens, prepare and disseminate a farm-­‐to-­‐school procedure manual.

Peta Wakan Tipi – Dream of Wild Health, MN Dream of Wild Health (DWH) -­‐ is a 10 acre, organic farm in Hugo, Minnesota. DWH began in 1998 as a program of Peta Wakan Tipi, a St. Paul based non-­‐profit that des provi transitional housing for American Indian people in recovery. At the heart of Dream of Wild Health is a collection of more than 300 rare heirloom seeds that have been donated by tribes and families from around the country. In addition to growing out a select number of heirloom seeds each year, they raise organic vegetables for sale at Farmers Markets in the Twin Cities, and provide educational programs for Native youth and families. They partner with urban organizations on programs that work to restore the mental, physical, and emotional health of our community are and expanding this.

Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma – Ponca City, OK Ponca Youth Mentorship & Garden Project The Ponca Youth Mentorship & Garden Project engages the youth-­‐at-­‐risk between the ages 5-­‐17 in projects in the garden. As a result of living with a disconnect from their traditional values, culture and lifeways, the overall focus is building resilience of the youth. This includes instructions on home gardening and food preparation from the foods the gardens produce.

Pooenadu Organic Farms – Oakland, CA Pooenadu Organic Farms is working towards building food security and sovereignty. Using sustainable methods that care for Mother Earth, longevity of the economy and environment is created for the community.

Praire Dust Films, LLC. Crying Earth Rise Up Crying Earth Rise Up is a broadcast-­‐length documentary film that tells the story of two women's parallel search for answers to the question: Why are there high levels of radiation in our drinking water and how can we protect our families and against community this threat.

Protecting the Penokees-­‐ Wisconsin A proposed GTAC mine stands to threaten the health of the water and

20 communities including the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe. The Penokees are nd at the headwaters of Bad River a the surrounding lakes, streams and wetlands throughout this ecosystem, all of which flows down into Lake Superior, highlighting the importance and urgency to protect this area from mining.

Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa – Bayfield, WI Mino Bimaadiziwin Farm Expansion Mino Bimaadiziwin Farm is building food security and sovereignty and will acquire an additional 21 acres to actively farm, providing cash crops leading to -­‐ self sustainability and improving the availability of locally produced food.

Rio Grande Community Development Corporation – New Mexico The Rio Grande Community Development Corporation goal is to prevent and stop the proposed uranium mine, located on Tsoodził (Mt. Taylor), a sacred site for the Navajo people, the center of religious practices, pilgrimage trails, traditional medicines and oral history. Mining on Tsoodzil jeopardizes the spiritual harmony and balance of their communities and will devastate the water supply that is already suffering from a drought.

Ron Plains -­‐ Sarnia blockades spokesperson Ron Plains works tirelessly in his efforts to expose and prevent the pollution of his people from the toxins released on to their sacred lands resulting from the industrial polluters surrounding Sarnia, ON also known as “Chemical Valley”. His work has led to his arrest following the organization of a blockade in Aamjiwnaag. He continues to protect his community.

Allies this past year:

Honor the Treaties An organization dedicated to amplifying the voices of indigenous communities through art and advocacy. They fund collaborations between Native artists and Native advocacy groups so that their messages can reach a wider audience. Honor the Treaties printed two large posters for us, the Coal poster and No KXL poster.

Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous – Peoples Arcata, CA Dedicated to promoting and maintaining the uniqueness of Native peoples and the sovereignty of tribal Nations. This organization has long recognized the critical need at the Native grassroots community level for access to resources, technical assistance and training to address an overall need for healthy and sustainable environments. Their work throughout the Americas has consistently been based on traditional Native concepts of holistic ecological stewardship. Seventh Generation Fund and the communities served have

21 long understood the direct relationships between a healthy environment, social -­‐ justice and community well being. They remain focused on supporting grassroots development through Native community empowerment and action.

Sikniktuk Mi’kmaq Rights Coalition-­‐ Esipogtog First Nation, New Brunswick The Sikniktuk Mi’kmaq Rights Coalition is leading opposition to Shale Gas (Southwestern Energy Inc.) exploration in New American Brunswick. This Native led organization is working on their ongoing opposition to proposed fracking pipelines which, if they go ahead, shall destroy their sacred lands and ecosystems upon which their economy, way of life and traditions depends.

Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum First Annual Uranium Film Festival Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum (SIUF) and Dineh Bidziil (DB) are a united grassroots organization that seeks a nonprofit organization status. Its mission is to work directly with Indigenous communities affected by uranium mining legacy in the Four Corners Region; to identify alternative economic opportunities that respect and incorporate traditional culture, foster responsible stewardship of the land and enhance selfreliance of -­‐ communities. SIUF DB are established to allow creative ideas to evolve into projects in an effort for Native communities to address their economic, environmental, social and cultural needs.

Southwest Uranium Working Group Working to stop the Roca Honda mine project from operating. In order to do that, many steps need take place to prepare a team of organizers to work together to coordinate an 18-­‐24 month campaign which brings together a coalition of community Uranium Working Group stakeholders to stop Energy Fuels & Sumitomo’s Roca Honda project through blocking its permitting processes, funding sources and local support networks.

Taos County Economic Development Corporation (TCEDC) TCEDC is a grassroots, community-­‐based non-­‐profit organization serving the culturally se diver population of Northern New Mexico. TCEDC has increased the financial and human health of the community, increased consumption of healthy foods, provided nutrition and environmental education, as well the transfer of intergenerational traditional knowledge, subsidized production costs for startup food manufacturers, stimulated local and regional trade, built social capital, and increased revenues for small business owners, employment and tax revenues. In the process of creating development, TCEDC has played the role of government, making capital investments but without the ability to fund these investments by raising taxes or printing money.

Tioyosaye Crisis Center– Pine Ridge Reservation, ND

22 Since 2009, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka has been doing field research and -­‐ fact finding on the Pine Ridge Reservation in order determine the feasibility of building earthen dome homes for those without shelter. A single dome prototype was built that summer. The integrity of the earthen shelter remains strong after three years and thus, encouraged TWM to move forward with the vision of building homes with” the earth beneath the feet” of the Lakota.

T’Sou-­‐ke First Nation – Sooke, BC Wui Cist Cen Tol The Wui Cist Cen Tol project works in youth engagement through gathering of native and medicinal plants, gathering for native fruits and berries and traditional seafood gatherings. This will have long-­‐term environmental, social, and economic impacts as the resilience of the triabl youth is built with the knowledge and wisdom of their traditions.

To Lani Enterprises, Inc. – Winslow, AZ Revitalizing Local Navajo Corn Production Markets and Traditions To Lani Enterprises project works with relocalizing Traditional Food Economics. This project builds the capacity of traditional farmers to grow, process and sell or trade Navajo corn at local markets. It engages youth, increases community knowledge of and access to traditional strains of Navajo corn.

Unistoten Sovereignty Camp The Unistoten Sovereignty Camp was established to protect their lands against pipelines. They require support for the on-­‐going maintenance of the camp, active blockade against the pipelines, the completion and maintenance of the permaculture garden, bunkhouse and pit house, as well as to add to a pool of funds for needed equipment, food and supplies.

United Houma Nation – Louisiana

This tribe have had many battles over the years. They've fought for educational opportunities, recognition by the Federal government, protection of their homelands al from coast erosion and hurricanes, and are now preparing for the impact of the massive oil spill. The BP Deepwater Disaster threatens the health -­‐ and long term survival of the United Houma Nation communities. Spread throughout six parishes of Southeastern Louisiana, their history, culture, and livelihoods are deeply tied to water. They are a resilient people and will do everything they can to preserve their way of life.

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Waikiki Hawaiian Civic Club & Ahahui Siwila Hawaii o Kapolei – Honolulu, HI Pupuhi Kukui-­‐Malino Ke Kai WHCC and/or the “Ahahui” is dedicated to the promotion and perpetuation of traditional native Hawaiian values and practices. The -­‐ Pupuhi Kukui Malino Ke Kai project goal is to create opportunities for the sharing and utilization of Indigenous wisdom between Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners and Native Hawaiian foster care and legal guardianship families.

Miigwech to our Foundation Donors and Individual Donors Aria Foundation Atlantic Trust Company Margaret A Cargill Foundation Carolyn Foundation Christensen Fund Headwaters Foundation ustice for J

Kalliopeia Foundation Bradshaw Knight Foundation Max and Anna Levinson Foundation Leonard Trust Special thanks to Keri Pickett, Honor the Lush Cosmetics LLC Earth’s long-­‐tie photographer friend Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe (pictured here on horse), who donated National Philanthropic Trust much of her time and photography to us Janet Wallace this year. Thanks to all of our friends and US Climate Action Network volunteers on Madeline Island in Lake th Women’s Donor Network Superior for helping us with out 4 of July 350.org ‘Protect Lake Superior’ parade presence, and to the Nelson family and Tom’s Burned Down Café for their continuous support. And a VERY special Chi-­‐Miigwech to Kenn Mitchell aka ‘Grandpa Crabby’ of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe for his support, and leading his community in the protection of the water.

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Individual Donors

Ann Anderson Lynne Harrington

Nasiren Ah-Raashidiin Julie Hill

Vivian Barry Peggy Hitchcock

Carole Barth Kathleen Hollander

Big Sandy Lake Association Brooke Hopkins

David Bilides Megan Huycke

Therese Ann Brennan Donald Irish Jan Ron Brock Thomas P Jalkut William Calkins Sally Johnson Thomas Callaway Kristi Kinney Special thanks to Mawinzo Asiginigaazo (The White Earth Berry Pickers Group), who've come to the PUC meetings and brought us berries Cathy Carlson Carol Kohls harvested from White Earth, met us at our stops on the ride and are strong Jim Carlstedt Betty LaDuke community organizers on White Earth, standing up against the pipeline. Berkley Carmine James P. Lenfestey Charlie Cocuard Karen Leu Peggy Crandall Max and Anna Levinson Kim Crawford Henry Llop Gerry Curtis Mary Luddington Mortimer Cushman Raymond & Kristin Susan Daggett Majkrzac Joan Dible Mawinzo Asiginigaazo Martha Easter-Wells & Kriss Wells (The White Earth Sandy Eastoak Berry Pickers Group) Robert H Franke Joshua Mailman Janet Fredell Judith Magann Margaret Gair Maureen McGue Lydia Garvey Kay Mehl Adelaid Gomer Denis Moynihan (Left) Karen Stoker, Bonnie Raitt and Winona at Bonnie's show in Fargo. Aj Grant Matthew Miller Karen is a huge Honor supporter and we thank her...(Right) Lisa Ringer Susan Green-River Diane Moskal with her impressive team of horses. Mary Luddington and Lisa were huge supporters of our work, and we thank them. Debra Hansen Tom McSteen 25 Robin Mower John Murphy Katherine Nielsen Michel O’Keefe Sandra & Douglas Olson-Loy Lois Payne-Myers Katherine Petersen Ellen Poss Local horseman Kevin Doorman, who Bonnie Raitt volunteered his horses and expertise. Our devoted friend, Amber Shaide, our Lisa Ringer supporter, and horsewoman and good Molly Ross horsewoman Mary friend who lent her horses, Ludington. time, and trailer driving Margaret Schink skills. Mona Schonbrun Doninick Sekich Charlene Ned Small John Snodgrass An Spraygren Janet Spring Robyn Stockton John Taylor Kenneth Tilsen Charlie and Mima Tipper Joann Thomas Carol Thompson Lane Walsh Ann & Dale Warner Medora Woods Honor staff with Davont Hart, a young man who donated his birthday money to Honor the Earth, and who took donations in his paper mache Earth for Honor at the Project Earth concert in Harmony Park, MN. He raised over $490. Miigwech to his entire family.

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Chi-­‐Miigwech to the Honor the Earth Board

Ourdedicated board has helped us on numerous occasions in 2013-­‐14 by donating their time and energy in hosting events, promoting Honor through their work, and through providing us with invaluable direction and support. We are grateful for their continuing dedication to helping Honor reach its potential as an organization.

• Co Chair Shannon Martin: Anishinaabe activist and Director of Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways. Saginaw Chippewa Reservation, Michigan. • Co Chair Paul Demain: Senior Editor at News For Indian Country and CEO of IndianCountryTV.com. LacCourte Orielles Reservation, Wisconsin. • Secretary-­‐Treasurer Kimberly Smith: Diné activist and community organizer, Chinle, Az. • Officer Jennifer Kreisberg: Tuscarora activist, and vocalist in Native The Indigo Girls rocking a show at Reject and Protect against women’s a cappella trio Ulali. the KXL Pipeline in Washington, DC with Honor. • Officer Hope Medford: Percussionist of the band Nahko and Medicine for the People, midwife, and holistic women’s health practitioner. Portland, Oregon. • Officer Cynthia Perez: Board member and activist for Indigenous Women’s Network. Austin, TX. • Officer Amy Ray: Activist, and 1⁄2 of women’s folk duo the Indigo Girls. Dahlonega, Georgia. • Officer Emily Saliers: Activist, and 1⁄2 of women’s folk duo the Indigo Girls. Atlanta, Georgia. • Robert Gough: Secretary Intertribal Council on Utility Policy Rosebud South Dakota Hope Medford at Shangri La with Margaret Nahko Bear: Vocalist, guitarist, flutist, and percussionist of the band Nahko and Campbell, Gloria Hanks and Michael Dahl of • Honor. Medicine for the People.

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HONOR THE EARTH INCOME STATEMENT Year End Financials 2013 12/31/13 *In addition to our operating budget over $150, 000 is regranted each year from our regranting account. Revenues

Grant Income $ 230,480.00 Contributions 116,796.49 Sales 2,228.44

Total Revenues 349,504.93

Expenses Salaries 48,935.81

Employer Share Taxes 3,507.40

Benefits 10,448.00

Contract Services 111,909.12

Professional Fees 38,150.85

Supplies 20,225.77 Telecommunications 3,906.83 Postage 5,102.28 Equipment 2,696.89 Printing 3,712.18 Advertising/Promo/PR 9,571.17 Travel 53,446.09 Vehicle Expense 1,697.73

Rent 24,000.00 Utilities 5,949.41 Insurance 2,094.95 Bank Charges 1,453.18

Total Expenses 346,807.66

Net Income $ 2,697.27 28 Rest in Peace Charlie Hill (July 6, 1951 – December 30, 2013) Charlie is a prolific Oneida-­‐Mohawk-­‐Cree stand-­‐up comedian, actor, writer and friend. Charlie passed after a long battle with Lymphoma. He touched the lives of many, and will be deeply missed. His gifts to the world, and his comedic spirit live on…laughter is one of our best medicines, and he gave us so much. Our deepest appreciation and respect goes with him as he walks on…

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