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Indigenous Peoples sustain much of the world’s remaining biodiversity, including ecosystems essential to our global climate, fresh water, and food security.

Nia Tero works in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples who sustain thriving territories and cultures to strengthen guardianship of Earth and all beings.

Nia Tero fully supports the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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REGIONS

Nia Tero is committed to working alongside Indigenous Peoples in biodiverse regions central to the well-being of all humanity, from Amazonia to Pasifika to the North America and beyond.

Our Work

Sharing Commitments. Safeguarding Our Home.

We all benefit when Indigenous Peoples have the means to protect their lands and seas. Nia Tero forges transparent and just agreements with Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ensure they can successfully defend and govern their territories, manage and protect their natural resources, and pursue their livelihoods.

latest STORIES

Delve into inspiring stories of ingenuity and action by and about Indigenous Peoples around the world.

Learn about Indigenous Peoples, guardianship, and the work of Nia Tero and our partners through film, podcast stories, journalism, photography, and art campaigns.

All Stories

Indigenous Peoples participate in a caucus session at COP28 in Dubai with the environmental minister of Colombia.

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Free Trainings: Strengthening Indigenous Peoples’ Capacity to Engage in Global Policy Forums

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Demonstrations and festivities during the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in Suriname. Photo by Surinjama Photograph (Kaliña Peoples).

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Part II: How the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples Turned into a Date to Fight for Human Rights in Suriname

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Suriname remains the only country in South America that has not recognized collective land rights for its Indigenous Peoples.

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Part I: Indigenous Peoples in Suriname Join Forces to Demand Access to their Fundamental Human Rights

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Fellowships

Uplifting Indigenous Peoples leading the way and shifting the narrative.

Nia Tero offers multiple fellowships to support Indigenous Peoples’ creative endeavors, community leadership, policy-making, and cultural continuity.

A herd of buffalo newly released on the Blackfeet Nation beneath the Chief Mountain wilderness. In a monumental move for the Blackfeet, this is the first herd to be release dinto the wild since colonization. By Whitney Snow (Blackfeet)

Wayfinders Circle

The Wayfinders Circle was launched as a network dedicated to unleashing the transformative potential of Indigenous lifeways, inspiring all people to reimagine development, conservation, and the way they relate to each other and to Mother Earth.

ABOUT US

Working in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and movements worldwide.

We are a US-based non-profit working in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and movements worldwide. Our governing bodies, leadership, and staff are of diverse non-Indigenous and Indigenous identities and life experiences. We view this diversity as a source of our strength as a bridging organization committed to Indigenous guardianship, self-determination, and an inclusive culture guided by Indigenous wisdom, practices, worldviews, and protocols. Our North Star is the foundational principle of reciprocity, which is the interdependency and relationship between the Earth, humanity and all other species.

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