What We Do
We organize. We gather. We build. Through strategic programs and campaigns, IJT uplifts Indigenous leadership in climate action, regenerative economic development, land and water restoration, and culture and endangered language revitalization.
Our Causes
Indigenous-Led Climate and Economic Justice
Our work is grounded in place, led by community, and made for generations to come.
We build trust-based partnerships in community and support our community of parterns to imagine new systems; and we help them design and build them.
Land Back & Water Back
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Supporting land rematriation, policy analysis & development, and co-governance
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Healing ecosystems through cultural stewardship and ecological restoration
Climate & Environmental Justice
Fighting for Our Right to Clean Air, Water, and Regenerative Futures
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Defending sacred places and fighting environmental racism
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Building local solutions rooted in Indigenous knowledge systems
Renewable Energy & Energy Sovereignty
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Installing solar microgrids and renewable systems in collaboration with Tribes
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Training in clean energy governance
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Advocating for policy changes that prioritize Indigenous-led regenerative energy projects
Food Sovereignty
Reconnecting Communities to First Foods & Traditional Ecological Practices
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Supporting Indigenous food sovereignty movements that revitalize traditional food systems
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Expanding land-based education programs to teach about regenerative harvesting and food preservation
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Creating pathways to feed our communities and futures
Regenerative Economies, Campuses, and Landscapes
Creating Regenerative Indigenous-Led Business and land use Models
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Strengthening Indigenous-owned businesses and co-ops
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Fiscal sponsorship and technical assistance for frontline projects
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Supporting the growth of Indigenous-owned enterprises in clean energy, conservation, and cultural industries
Our Initiatives & Programs
Here’s how we walk our path.
At Indigenous Just Transition (IJT), every program we build is a prayer for the land, a promise to our ancestors, and a door way for future generations.
Policy & Advocacy for Indigenous Rights
We know that sovereignty isn’t given. It’s practiced, protected, and lived everyday. Our advocacy honors that truth.
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Defending Treaty rights and ancestral lifeways against environmental harm and corporate overreach
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Fighting environmental racism with strength, clarity, and community power
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Co-creating policies with Indigenous leaders and communities, not on behalf of them, to ensure the laws of the land reflect the laws of the people
Community & Movement Building
We gather to remember who we are.
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Hosting summits, ceremonies, and teach-ins where wisdom, laughter, and strategy move hand-in-hand
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Strengthening the web of Indigenous Nations and allies, rooted in kinship, trust, and shared purpose
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Building platforms where Indigenous governance flourishes, co-governance models emerge, and collective dreams take root in real soil
We believe movements are living things, tended by many hands across generations. Every gathering we host is a seed.
Education, Training, & Technical Assistance
We teach what the water and land teaches us: resilience, renewal, regeneration, and reciprocity.
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Offering technical support for climate action, land rematriation, and regenerative community development
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Training Indigenous leaders in policy, restoration, and sovereign economic design; all grounded in our own cultural teachings and futures
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Developing public resources and curricula that center Indigenous Regenerative Design Ways, making them living knowledge passed heart-to-heart, not just written words
Our training is about designing and building the systems our ancestors dreamed we’d return to.
Strategic Goals
Over the next five years, we commit to:
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Develop The Wasa'tos Institute
A dedicated gathering and regenerative healing campus for Tribes, Indigenous scholars, artists, organizers, and designers to dream, envision solutions, tools, and experiences, and teach and heal.
Land Back & Water Back
Advocating for Indigenous sovereignty and ecological restoration.
AI Impacts Accountability
Resisting the unchecked expansion of energy and water intensive data centers on Tribal lands; advocating for free prior and informed consent, transparency, and protection of sacred ecosystems and cultural resources.
Ecological Restoration
Healing the land and water through Indigenous stewardship.
Capital Projects
Supporting communities with regenerative economic development.
Nuclear Justice
Addressing the long-term health, cultural, and environmental impacts of nuclear testing and contamination in Indigenous communities, including Hanford and the Marshall Islands.
Dam Removal
Advancing efforts to remove destructive dams that block fish migration, flood sacred sites, and alter Indigenous lifeways.
Anti-Trawling
Supporting Indigenous fisheries and marine protection by opposing destructive industrial bottom trawling practices.
