Indigenous Youth Voices at NYC Climate Week
Not Our Native Daughters’ Indigenous Youth Voices for Conservation program is rising to the stage at NYC Climate Week — bringing Indigenous youth leaders from across the country to lead with culture, ceremony, and vision.
This gathering is more than a conversation; it is an invitation. Come learn how to work with strong Native-led organizations and grassroots advocates, and see firsthand how collaboration, storytelling, and ancestral knowledge can transform the fight for climate justice.
Our youth are carrying forward the prayers of our ancestors — and showing the world that true leadership begins with integrity, unity, and Indigenous solutions.
Today We Raise Awareness
Tomorrow We Will Have Justice
For Every Statistic
There Is a Story Of Fear
Highest Rates of Violence
Native American women face some of the highest rates of violence in the United States. The Department of Justice reports that 84.3% of Native American women have experienced violence in their lifetime, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Between 86-96 percent of the sexual abuse of Native women is committed by non-Indigenous perpetrators who are rarely brought to justice. This violence has its roots in colonial history, starting with Columbus's 1492 expedition.
Colonial Roots of Violence
The crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) is severe. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that Native American women are more than twice as likely to be victims of homicide compared to non-Hispanic white women.
Murdered, Missing & Indigenous Women
These statistics underscore the urgent need for action and support for Native American women, highlighting the disparities and challenges we face in various aspects of life. Will you join us in supporting Native-led, women-led efforts that are working to change these statistics?
Recent Work
Not Our Native Daughters Receives Women of Impact Award from Focus on Women Magazine for Their Work on MMIWR
Not Our Native Daughters Participates in Environmental Justice/Climate Change Disrupt Fellowship Retreat with National EJ/CJ Leaders
Decolonizing Data Project in partnership with Urban Indian Health Institute
Not Our Native Daughters (NOND) was created for the education and awareness of the missing, exploited, murdered Indigenous Women & Children. May we continue to honor all victims, by continuing to stand for them! Fight with us!
NOND on President’s Biden Apology to Native Americans
"I never went into boarding school, but I have suffered the passed-down trauma, the associated trauma that has stemmed from the boarding school era," Lynnette Grey Bull of the Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming told Scripps News. Grey Bull's father, Myron, her aunt and several other family members were among those forcibly taken from their homes during that period.
"My father, my grandparents and my ancestors before them have passed away, they have journeyed on, but during their lifetime they were never able to say, 'I suffered a traumatic event such as the boarding school,'" she added. "It was never acknowledged, not only for themselves, but from the US government."
Dateline NBC special The Secrets of Spirit Lake
NOND founder, Lynnette Grey Bull, featured in Dateline NBC special The Secrets of Spirit Lake focused on the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). Premieres Friday, August 27, 2021 (10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT).
Lynnette Grey Bull | Credit: Dateline NBC