This event is for Indigenous People in the area. We will talk specifically about working within our tribal governments (federal, state, non-recognized) on tribal resolutions our councils can take, and steps to get the community involved).

7 Directions of Service has been working on the Rights of Nature for the last year, holding workshops, meetings and educational forums. We are moving forward with legislation, and working with several Organizations, Lawyers and NC General Assembly, as well as towns and communities surrounded by the Haw River.

In the last few years, two Indigenous-led movements have boldly led a way forward for tribal communities and climate justice by reclaiming sovereignty rooted in ancestral knowledge. Both movements radically shift the colonial system embedded in the DNA of the United States (and Canada), and how we relate to the land, water and spirit of Turtle Island. With this meeting, we will share the power of the Rights of Nature and LandBack movements from those leading the way, and explore the potential for collaboration or connection between them.

Learning from Casey Camp and how the Ponca For the Indigenous people of Turtle Island and around the world, the Rights of Nature has been a way to reclaim our sovereignty and exercise our traditional responsibilities to our Mother, the Earth. In passing Rights of Nature into tribal law, the Ponca also reclaimed our original treaty boundaries, which the US government has whittled away with every broken promise and treaty they’ve ever signed with tribal nations.”

I am starting this awareness here with the Haw River. We have a team already dedicated to the Haw River. I believe his movement should be indigenous led, especially here in NC. Following the guidance of Penny Opal Plant and Casey Camp and all the people at Movement Rights, we are inviting like-minded indigenous people to attend this event to discuss what is happening to bring back to their community to bridge this conversation in their communities.  

In 2022, the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma will again make Rights of Nature history by adopting a law recognizing the legal rights of two rivers in their territory: Ní'skà, (the Arkansas River) and Ni'ží'dè, (the Salt Fork River).