Tribal Environmental Organizations
National Tribal Environmental Council
NTEC is involved in a variety of projects geared toward the proper management of air, land and water resources. NTEC's current efforts include an Air Quality Programs and Superfund/Hazardous Substances Project. The Air Quality Program is designed to provide assistance to tribes participating in regional visibility planning in the West. The Program includes participation in intergovernmental long-term strategic planning, intervention in litigation to defend visibility regulations against industry challenges, and coordinating tribal input on various proposed EPA regulations. Superfund/Hazardous Substances Project conducts research, analyzes and prepares reports on hazardous waste issues that impact tribal governments. A team, the "Superfund Working Group," meets with tribal representatives dealing with Superfund sites on and near their reservations.
Tribal Association on Solid Waste and Emergency Response
TASWER provides an index-orientated site for grant funding, conferences, and career opportunities. The website provides a link to Emergency Response (First Responder Awareness) Training Course which gives people the ability to recognize a Hazardous Material (HazMat) incident and safely respond within their capabilities. The site contains an Open Dumps Forum which allows individuals/organizations the opportunity to provide opinions on how to clean up open dumps in Indian Country and Alaskan Native Villages.
National Tribal Environmental Research Institute - Federal Tribal Environmental Programs
The index of the NTERI site offers links to Water Quality, Air Quality, Pesticide Programs, Radon, Hazardous waste, Solid Waste and Emergency Response, and Underground Storage Tanks sites.
Mni Sose Intertribal Water Rights Coalition
This is the webpage of the Mni Sose Intertribal Water Rights Coalition, a consortium of tribes working to protect their rights to use the Missouri River. This site has many links including resolutions, and an environmental resource guidebook.
Inter-Tribal Environmental Council - Clean Air
This program is conducting air monitoring at eight tribal sites throughout Oklahoma. At three of the sites, the OES is monitoring for criteria pollutants and meteorological parameters. These pollutants are carbon monoxide, ozone, sulfur dioxides, nitrogen oxides and particular matter. The site provides the components, initiatives and results of the organization's program.
ESRI Native American First Nations Program
Native Geography is the annual magazine of the ESRI Native American/First Nations Program. This website is the on-line publication of the 2000 magazine which provides some background information about tribal environmental policy and application of GIS.
Indigenous Mining Campaign Project
An information clearinghouse which shares knowledge, documents and help to understand all of the ways that Indigenous Peoples are impacted by mining and oil extraction.
Native Americans and the Environment
An annotated directory of environmentally related Web sites that includes links to documents deposited at the Native Americans and the Environment Web Site. The documents are arranged by region or by subject.
Council of Energy Resource Tribes
CERT supports member Tribes as they develop their management capabilities and use their energy resources as the foundation for building stable, balanced self-governing economies. Services available are: strategic planning, public policy and advocacy, energy marketing and communications and publications.
Native American Fish and Wildlife Society
The Native American Fish & Wildlife Society (NAFWS) is a national tribal organization established informally during the early 1980's. NAFWS was incorporated in 1983 to develop a national communications network for the exchange of information and management techniques related to self-determined tribal fish and wildlife management.
Native American Rights Fund - Environmental page
The Environmental page contains updates on the cases NARF is currently working on. The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is a non-profit organization that provides legal representation and technical assistance to Indian tribes, organizations and individuals nationwide. The mission of NARF is to: preserve tribal existence; protect tribal natural resources; promote human rights; ensure accountability of governments; develop Indian law and educate the public about Indian rights, laws, and issues.
National Environmental Coalition of Native Americans
NECONA's goals are to educate Indians and non-Indians about health dangers of radioactivity and the transportation of nuclear waste on America's rails and roads; to network with Indian and non-Indian environmentalists to develop grassroots counter-movement to the well-funded efforts of the nuclear industry; to declare Tribal NUCLEAR FREE zones across the nation. In response to efforts to place Nuclear Waste on Indian lands, NECONA has been successful. Of the 17 tribes originally considering MRS sites, all but 3 have withdrawn.
Honor the Earth - Environmental Justice
A national native grant-making and political advocacy group. One of the main projects of the environmental justice program is nuclear waste on native lands.
Model Tribal Environmental Codes
EnviroText
Most comprehensive site devoted specifically to model environmental codes and laws for tribes. Contains 100 links to various tribes' codes and laws.
Tribal Association on Solid Waste and Emergency Response
This site contains 25 links to various tribal laws and codes, mostly relating to solid waste, but also contains a few random codes and acts.
Wisconsin Judicare's Indian Law Office
Contains many links to numerous examples of codes and constitutions (entire codes, not just environmental). Separated by tribes in Wisconsin, tribes outside of Wisconsin
University of Oklahoma Law Center
This site contains links to entire codes of seven different tribes; Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Colville Confederated Tribe, The Confederated Tribes Of The Grand Ronde Community Of Oregon, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewas, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, San Ildefonso Pueblo Tribe and the White Mountain Apache Tribe.
Environmental Protection Agency
This site contains model ordinances on aquatic buffers, open space development, stormwater control operation and maintenance, illicit discharges, post construction controls, drinking water protection and a category for miscellaneous ordinances. Also contains a link for model ordinances regarding erosion and sediment control which is not currently active. Site is not designed for use by tribes specifically.
