What Can We Do?

• We must respect our traditions and responsibility to protect the sacredness of our Mother Earth.
  
  
• Get your Tribal government as a sovereign nation to get involved in the climate issues both with the U.S. Congress and with the U.S. State Department and its international deliberations within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Indigenous community-based and non-governmental organizations also have a role in these issues.
  
  
• Tell your Tribal government to carefully consider the environmental and cultural consequences when looking at, or continuing any fossil fuel energy development (oil, gas, coal mining, coal-fired power plants, coal bed methane) on, or near Indigenous lands.
  
  
• This country must immediately start phasing out its national dependence on a fossil fuel economy, support policies to immediately reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse gases and seek legislative remedy for a just transition of workers, Tribes, and communities that are impacted from a phase-out and reduction of carbon emissions and greenhouse gases. We must tell the fossil fuel industries to take responsibility for their polluting ways.
  
  
• Conserve our own dependence on fossil fuels and support our Tribes to pursue clean renewable energy projects.

INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK - PO Box 485 - Bemidji, MN 56619
Ph: (218) 751-4967 Fax: (218) 751-0561 Email: ien@igc.org Web: www.ienearth.org