Honor the Earth

Honor the Earth is a non-profit organization founded to raise awareness and financial support for Indigenous environmental justice.[1] The organization was founded by Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers after meeting Winona LaDuke, and after consultation with members of the Indigenous Environmental Network, Indigenous Women's Network and Seventh Generation Fund. Since 2016, Winona LaDuke and other members of Honor the Earth have been active in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.[2]

Honor the Earth
TypeNon-profit
IndustryIndigenous Environmentalism
Founded1993
HeadquartersCallaway, Minnesota
Key people
Krystal Two Bulls
Winona LaDuke
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers
Productsgrant making, sustainable technology.
Websitewww.honorearth.net

Honor the Earth's mission is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard.[3]

On March 30, 2023, Honor the Earth was ordered to pay, by the Becker County, Minnesota District Court, a former contract employee $750,000 in damages in a lawsuit stemming from an accusation of sexual harassment in 2015.[4]


Notable supporters

Musicians who have held benefit concerts for the organization include Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, and David Crosby.[5]

See also

Notes
  1. 'Honor The Earth' tour brings political and artistic unity Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine by Melissa Schorr, Las Vegas Sun, September 30, 2000.
  2. Winona LaDuke (August 25, 2016). "What Would Sitting Bull Do?". Retrieved November 17, 2016.
  3. "About Us". Honor The Earth. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
  4. Bowe, Nathan. Honor the Earth ordered to pay $750,000 in civil suit, Forum Communications Company: Detroit Lakes Tribune, April 3, 2023.
  5. Musicians sound off on Yucca Mountain perils Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine by Benjamin Grove, May 30, 2002.
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