Movement Rights

Movement Rights Movement Rights—aligning human laws with the laws of the Natural World since 2014.

Movement Rights mission is to work with Indigenous tribes and communities to align human laws and culture with the laws of the natural world in the time of climate chaos. We work to elevate the voice of Indigenous people at the UN, community meetings, regulatory hearings, and more. We work with national and global climate allies, sovereign Indigenous Nations and communities. We are in the streets,

in the news and in the courts, providing research and reports, convening strategic gatherings, and providing practical support to Indigenous communities working to recognize Indigenous Rights and the Rights of Nature. We have helped thousands of people connect the dots between the critical time we find ourselves in and the solutions that Indigenous people have always known: human activity must take place within the natural system of laws that govern life on Earth. Globally RON (or other words recognizing legal standing for ecosystems) is law in over a dozen countries. It is no coincidence that these efforts mostly led by Indigenous peoples because this is the work of undoing colonial notions of nature as property—as separate from human beings. Mainstream law and culture nearly everywhere says humans are owners of nature and as such we can destroy it for profit—colonialism is the story of separation. Indigenous wisdom understands humans are just one part of nature, not above it. And even in modern culture with our cell phones and supermarkets, Indigenous cosmology and Rights of Nature are not about living in the past—it is about living into the future, living in balance with the Earth’s offerings.

05/29/2026

LAND BACK. 🌎

The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa celebrated the return of 3,400 acres of ancestral homeland in what leaders are calling a historic transfer.

“This is not only the return of land. It is the return of even more responsibility. It is the return of a relative.”

This moment reflects the power of Indigenous leadership, long-term advocacy, and the ongoing movement for land rematriation and sovereignty.

As Native News Online reported, the transfer is being recognized as “a significant affirmation of Tribal sovereignty and treaty rights.”

Land Back | Chippewa | Indigenous sovereignty |

https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/land-back-fond-du-lac-band-celebrates-return-of-3400-acres-in-historic-transfer/

05/21/2026

🌎 Calling all Indigenous Emerging Leaders across Turtle Island

Movement Rights is inviting Indigenous youth and young adults (ages 17–30) to join a one-of-a-kind 8-week online course exploring how climate justice advocacy advances the Indigenous-led Rights of Nature movement.

📅 Course Dates: Bi-Weekly June 17 - September 17
📝 Applications close: June 10, 2026 https://forms.gle/ysXfLkwNBLpTFx9z6
📧 Questions or more information: [email protected]

✨ What to expect:�• Weekly online sessions�• Inspiring guest speakers�• Articles + short films curated specifically for this course�• Connection with Indigenous leaders and changemakers across Turtle Island

We will be announcing more information soon! Stay-tuned :)

05/15/2026

What is it that we are truly here for?

Are we going to see things from a different lens and follow that vision? Truly shift the paradigm about how human kind lives.

Think about this as another species that is part of nature not separate from, because that is who we really are. We are not separate from nature.

We understood we lived downstream from everything, we all are in this together.

Now is the time to remember, and move forward with that world view.

Indigenous wisdom | Fossil fuels | Ponca tribe | Casey camp Horinek | rights of nature | just transition | indigenous cosmology

05/14/2026

Across Turtle Island, Indigenous youth are rising up to protect the Rights of Nature and defend the future for the next seven generations.

From Mashpee Wampanoag youth protecting the herring, to the NAIWA Daughters of the Eastern Band of Cherokee advancing Rights of Rivers resolutions, to young leaders like Yulevis Morales Blanco standing against fossil fuel extraction. Isabella Z**i NAIWA Daughters Cherokee

Movement Rights is honored to support Indigenous Emerging Leaders through trainings, intergenerational gatherings, advocacy support, media training, and national and international organizing opportunities.

Read the blog 👉🏼👉🏼👉🏼 https://movementrights.org/emerging-leaders-in-the-rights-of-nature-movement/

Please consider making a donation to support Indigenous Emerging Leaders and Movement Rights as this work continues to grow. 🌎 LINK IN BIO

05/07/2026

We return from the historic 1st Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia...where Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and nations gathered to advance a Just Transition beyond fossil fuels.

A powerful reminder of what this moment requires:

“To make a transition with justice, we can’t replace fossil fuels with the mining of rare earth minerals. We must move from the commodification of nature to respect for the sacred systems of life.”
— Julia Horinek, Indigenous Programs Director, Movement Rights

Read more at https://movementrights.org/phase-out-fossil-fuels-conference-indigenous-led/

04/29/2026

We are here at the 1st Conference Transitioning away from Fossil Fuels because we believe a new world is about to begin.

We are part of it, and so are you.

Indigenous-led rights of nature is a climate solution and a path away from fossil fuels.

04/28/2026

Over 60 governments are meeting in Santa Marta Colombia for a historic conference addressing the phase-out of fossil fuels from April 28 - 29th.

The 1st Conference Transitioning away from Fossil Fuels opened the week with a march where hundreds gathered in the streets of Santa Marta to unify demands to build collective power from the ground up.

Movement Rights is happy to be part of the hundreds marching on the ground and uplifting Rights of Nature as one of the many Indigenous-led climate solutions to move us forward and beyond the phase out of fossil fuels.

04/22/2026

Every day is Earth Day.

We are here in the heart of the beast in New York City for the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), confronting the many challenges that come from disconnection from our Mother Earth.
Every day is a chance to honor the Earth.
Do something today to honor her:
🌱 Plant a bush or tend a garden
🙏 Offer gratitude to the land, water, and all living beings
🤝 Support Indigenous-led organizations and communities
🌿 Spend time in nature and listen

You can also support our Rights of Nature efforts (LINK IN BIO)

💬We’d love to hear from you in the comments! Let us know how you are honoring Mother Earth today.

“We are not just protecting nature, we are nature protecting itself.” — Casey Camp-Horinek

Rights of nature | Indigenous issues | protecting Mother Earth | land defender | water protector | Indigenous women led | Ponca nation of Oklahoma |

04/20/2026

YUVELIS MORALES BLANCO�2026 Goldman Environmental Prize Laureate

From the banks of the Magdalena River in Colombia, Yuvelis Morales Blanco helped lead a grassroots movement to stop commercial fracking before it could take hold in her community.

Working with Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities in Puerto Wilches, she co-founded youth-led organizing efforts to defend water, territory, and life itself, challenging powerful fossil fuel interests and elevating the right of communities to free, prior, and informed consent.

Her work is part of a broader struggle for environmental justice and the recognition that rivers, lands, and communities are not sacrifice zones.

This recognition honors what frontline communities already know:
defending water is defending life.

04/14/2026

A love letter to Mother Earth. Spoken by our Indigenous Community Organizer Isabella Z**i .

Every action we take today is a love letter, a prayer to our Mother Earth.

Recognizing Rights of Nature,
Defending the Water,
Protecting the Land.
These are all ways we show our love every day.

Indigenous sovereignty | landback | reciprocal relationship with the land | indigenous cosmology | indigenous wisdom | love our Mother Earth.

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