Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$458,005

Total expenses

$396,506

Contributions and grants received

$457,377

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$628

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$68,778

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$68,778

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$396,506

Management and general expenses

$0

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$396,506

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• THE ORGANIZATION'S PROGRAMS ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1.INDIGENOUS FOOD SOVERNIGHTY - FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IS THE ABILITY OF AN INDIGENOUS NATION OR COMMUNITY TO CONTROL ITS OWN FOOD SYSTEM AND FOOD- PRODUCING RESOURCES FREE OF CONTROL OR LIMITATIONS PUT ON IT BY AN OUTSIDE POWER. WE HAVE TWO INITIATIVES, YESA INDIGENOUS GARDENS AND A ELDER FOOD PROGRAM. 2.RIGHTS OF NATURE - RIGHTS OF WATER. OUR ORGANIZATION, WHICH IS COMMITTED TO ALIGNING HUMAN LAW WITH THE LAWS OF THE NATURAL WORLD THROUGH OUR WORK WITH INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES. OUR TRADITIONAL ACTIVITIES DEPEND ON WATER FOR TRANSPORTATION, DRINKING, CLEANING, PURIFICATION, AND PROVIDE HABITAT FOR THE PLANTS AND ANIMALS WE GATHER AS MEDICINES AND FOODS. 3.RE-EDUCATION FOR INDIGENOUS HISTORY - OUR PROGRAM ENSURES THAT COLLEGES/GRADE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS LEARN THE HISTORY OF ABUSE AT THOSE BOARDING SCHOOLS THAT ONCE TRIED TO ERASE INDIGENOUS CULTURE. WE ALSO FOCUS LOCALLY ON VIRGINIA AND NC, WHICH THEY ALSO LEARN ABOUT: 1 FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBE IN NC, 7 STATE RECOGNIZED AND SEVERAL UNRECOGNIZED TRIBES IN NC, TRIBAL GOVERNANCE, ECONOMIES OF EARLY CIVILIZATIONS, THE TRAIL OF TEARS, CAUSES OF THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR, AND MORE. OUR INITIATIVES INCLUDE TRUTHSGIVING, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY, SOUTHEASTERN WORKSHOP TEACH INS AND A JULY 3 DECOLONIAL BBQ. 4.CULTURAL EDUCATION - THIS PROGRAM EDUCATES TRIBAL COMMUNITIES TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE MOCCASINS, RIBBON SKIRTS, BEADED JEWELRY AND MUCH MORE. WE TEACH AT COMMUNITY CENTERS AND LIBRARIES. OUR TWO INITIATIVES ARE CULTURE CLASSES AND TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE TO ENGAGE TRIBAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS. 5.FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE - WE ARE EDUCATING PEOPLE IN BIPOC AND ECONOMICALLY CHALLENGED COMMUNITIES TO MOVE TO CLEANER ENERGY. PIPELINES AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES ARE COMING THROUGH RURAL COMMUNITIES. OUR INITIATIVES INCLUDE SACRED PLACES REMAINING OF WATER AND SACRED SITES IN NORTH CAROLINA, EDUCATING THE COMMUNITY AROUND PROPERTY RIGHTS AND PIPELINE RESISTANCE. 6.YOUTH ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS - INDIGENOUS YOUTH IN PARTICULAR CONTINUE TO FACE RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION AND ARE MARGINALIZED IN SOCIETY. WHEN THEY HAVE A SENSE OF BELONGING AND STRONG CULTURAL IDENTITY, THEY BECOME RESILIENT, POWERFUL INDIVIDUALS. THEY HAVE IMMERSED ROOTS THROUGH THEIR ANCESTRAL LINEAGE, WISDOM, AND INTELLIGENCE. THEY ARE THE FUTURE LEADERS FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES. IT IS CRITICAL TO RESTORE LEADERSHIP FROM THE EROSION OF THEIR TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE PRACTICES AND HABITAT, SO THAT THEY CAN BEGIN TO CREATE A MORE SUSTAINABLE INTERDEPENDENT SYSTEM FOR THE COMING GENERATIONS.

  Expenses $396,506

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

2 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202333079349300238

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