Moccasins on the ground
NOA Fellowship program
Building a Native grassroots movement to get out the Native vote
The Native Organizers Alliance (NOA) Fellowship program focuses on Native and Tribal grassroots organizing for national initiatives and events to build a durable, organized, and powerful Native grassroots movement. The goal of the NOA Fellows program is to support the development of Native leaders and organizers who will play a role in their state and communities in deepening a traditional values-driven strategy for achieving structural reforms that will lead to an end to systemic racism and the fulfillment of treaty rights and sovereignty.
This year our Fellowship program is focused on a critical mission – getting out the Native vote!
Together, we can shape the future.
NOA provides hands-on training with the opportunity to build skills, relationships, and resources at the local and national levels. Fellows have the opportunity to work and network with Native communities from across Turtle Island while learning about the Indigenous framework for grassroots organizers as a whole. At the center of our theory of social change is an understanding of relationality, our relationship to all things, in the natural world, political, and economic. And how we carry out our ancestral responsibilities for our descendants.
This September, we made a big impact—training 112 Fellows in Chicago and Detroit as part of our Natives Vote campaign. We're working with 20 Native organizations and 11 Tribal Nations across 10 states to register voters, raise awareness, and drive Native voter turnout. But we’re just getting started. Our goal? 200 moccasins on the ground in 12 key states!
