We invite you to bring this orientation into your work and your lives. This tool is for anyone who wants to create life-affirming and transformative policy changes.

It articulates the necessary questions to ask and steps to take– in 14 policy planks and 80+ policy ideas - to achieve a world that values and sustains our lives and relationships.

Over the next six months, IEN, along with other United Frontline Table members, will engage in organizing work around the 14 policy planks. The planks will also be featured on our social media platforms and websites. With your help amplifying these planks, we can build momentum together for vetted policy priorities we demand from decision makers, our community members, and each other.

Justice for Indigenous nations and communities, one of 14 planks in the tool, must be a central policy priority in any regenerative economy in this country. This tool lays out how to begin with a series of concrete recommendations for lawmakers that can be advanced right away:

• Strengthen and Protect the Inherent Rights and Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples.
• Strengthen U.S. policies of consultation with Indigenous nations with a more rigorous standard of obtaining the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent of Indigenous nations for all decisions that affect Indigenous peoples and their traditional lands and territories.
• Demand the US government initiate an independent review and determination of all effects of its broken treaties and other agreements with Indigenous nations.
• The US government fulfills its trust responsibilities and duties to Indigenous nations and its peoples to invest in economic Just Transition.
• Improve and Expand Healthcare Systems and Housing for All Indigenous nations, including urban Indigenous communities.
• Eliminate Subsidies and Tax Breaks to the Fossil Fuel Industry.
• Divest from Extraction & Invest in Indigenous nations and community.

You and your communities are welcome to join the Regenerative Economy. The Protect, Repair, Invest and Transform framework puts us on a trajectory toward collective justice, rooted in a living Regenerative Economy that is intersectional—anti-racist and feminist.

Please circulate widely. Over the fall and winter, our policy and organizing teams will continue to outreach and invite our allies.

In defense of our rights as Indigenous peoples, we must and will continue to fight for racial and social justice. The building of a just and safe society cannot be achieved without centering the most oppressed. We must continue to fight for an economic system that doesn’t fail us and Mother Earth.

Consistent with the Indigenous prophecies, a reawakening to our true human nature is sweeping through both Indigenous and non-Indigenous societies. For millennia, the wisdom keepers of our many Indigenous nations kept alive the deep wisdom of our Indigenous knowledge, passed down by our understanding of the Original Instructions, from generation to generation.

I urge all of you, all humanity, to join with us in transforming the economic and social structures, institutions and power relations that underpin conditions of oppression and exploitation.

Tom BK Goldtooth
Executive Director
Indigenous Environmental Network

A People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy:
This launch of A People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy: Protect, Repair, Invest and Transform guides us collectively into a sustainable future, wherein Indigenous sovereignty and values are front and center.
https://www.ienearth.org/regenerativeeconomy/