Our Mission
Indian Country Grassroots Support is a 501(c)(3) non-profit formed on March 18, 2016 by retired Navajo Nation judges, law professors, and advocates.
We are lawyers, advocates, teachers, ranchers and farmers who are personally, and through our families, generationally invested in our communities on the Navajo Nation. We are community members – tribal members of the Navajo Nation who raise our families in reservation communities, most of us with lengthy careers in tribal government and community service; and non-tribal members who have immersed in our Diné communities, through kinship or service, for a generation. All acknowledge that the emphasis of our work is on indigenous knowledge systems and values, involving decolonizing approaches to all knowledge and structures. This means that how we proceed is as important as what is sought.
We are impact-focused. Diné communities are in critical need of access to knowledge of intertwined spheres of geography, history, law and culture in order to take charge of our community life on the reservation. Community access and understanding of federal, state and tribal laws that impact us is especially urgent. Our primary role is to gather and enable needed knowledge to be presented, translated and explained on an ongoing basis for communities to know knowledge, and to navigate and use knowledge with clarity.
Our ultimate goal is for Diné communities to be well-informed, and to therefore be well and thrive on their own terms.