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.
Our work prioritizes the integration of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Jurisprudence into professional research frameworks. We employ a methodological restoration approach to ensure that legal and administrative structures remain authentically aligned with the historical and enacted laws of the Diné people. Within this framework, procedural transparency and methodological rigor are considered as vital to the mission as the research outcomes themselves.
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.
