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Native Children’s Survival
Native Children’s Survival (NCS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about critical issues facing Mother Earth, her children, and the seventh generation to come. Our mission is achieved through the international language of music and film, and sustainable product development.
Founded by Robby Romero in 1989, our first music video project, “Is It Too Late” was broadcast around the world from the Kremlin following President Gorbachev’s historical environmental speech at the 1990 Global Forum in Moscow. Since then, NCS has created award winning music, music videos, public service announcements, and rockumentary films, that have reached millions of people from all walks of life through broadcasts on MTV, VH1, Sundance Channel, CNN, SABC Africa, and many other networks around the world. NCS has also created and developed internationally successful products that have supported the traditional values and sustainable practices of Indigenous Peoples around the world.
In addition to raising awareness, NCS is dedicated to supporting children’s programs, and grassroots Indigenous organizations that are working on the front lines to protect and support Indigenous Peoples and the environment. Through our projects, we have successfully raised millions of dollars to aid these organizations.
HONORARY BOARD OF ADVISORS
Adelard Blackman, Cold Lake, First Nations; Richard Moves Camp, Oglala Lakota Spiritual Leader; Rhoda Concha, Taos Pueblo; Ole Cassadore-Davis, Apache Survival Coalition; Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environment Network; Tonya Gonnella Frichner, Esq., American Indian Law Alliance; Sarah James, Gwich’in Steering Committee; Chairman Floyd “Buck” Jourdain, Red Lake Nation; Dune Lankard, Eyak Preservation Council; Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe of the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Sioux Nation; Chief Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper, Onondaga Nation; Audrey Shenandoah, Clan Mother, Onondaga Nation, (1926-2012); and Reuben A. Snake, Winnebago Nation, (1937-1993).
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Robby Romero, Stacey Thunder, Dakota Romero
RED THUNDER – NATIVE CHILDREN’S SURVIVAL
If not now, when? If not you, who? is an essential CD/DVD collection of music, music videos, rockumentary films and public service announcement campaigns about the critical need to permanently protect our last remaining wild places and bridge the gap between Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and the Environment.
CURRENT PROJECTS
PREMIERES WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY O5 JUNE 2012
PROJECT PROTECT is an awareness campaign fighting for the rights of Mother Earth and all her children with the power of music and film to motivate and inspire the Global community into action.
WHO’S GONNA SAVE YOU Directed and produced by Eagle Thunder Entertainment (ETE) recording artist, Robby Romero and executive produced by ETE artist and PBS Native news magazine series host, Stacey Thunder, is a combination of music video and motion picture presenting an Indigenous perspective to a global crisis and calling for the restoration of life in balance. From the front lines of climate change, a teenage Apache Peace Warrior journeys on his skateboard through New Orleans, Louisiana five years post-Katrina. As he travels through the aftermath in the Ninth Ward and the nightlife of the French Quarter, visions of natural and man-made disasters and their powerful warnings fill his mind.
With profound insights from Hopi elder Thomas Banyacya and Onondaga Faithkeeper Chief Oren Lyons, the music picture honors the rights of Mother Earth and all her relations, and commemorates the United Nations General Assembly’s historic move proclaiming Earth Day (April 22) as a day of international recognition called “International Mother Earth Day.” It stars Romero and Apache Skateboards’ Tracy Polk Jr.; and features New Orleans’ first music family member, Aaron Neville Jr., Thunder, and ETE recording artist, Dakota Romero. Street artists Jules Muck, Douglas Miles, and Banksy are also featured.
“Who’s Gonna Save You” was shot on location in New Orleans. “We chose ‘Crescent City’ because this musically historic treasure has become symbolic to natural and manmade disasters, like Haiti in 2010 and Japan in 2011, and because the aftermath of corporate greed, corruption, relocation, and poverty associated with these catastrophic events is a profound warning and should be a great concern to us all,” said Romero and Thunder.
The song was written and produced by Romero and Grammy Award producer, engineer, and musician, Steve Addabbo. The music picture was conceived by Romero and acclaimed actor, Clifton Collins Jr. Funding was provided by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, Coeur D’ Alene Tribe, Mille Lacs Band Of Ojibwe, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, Red Lake Ojibwe Nation, and Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska.
THUNDERSTORM – A thirteen part film series bridging the gap between Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and the Environment. View the Brochure (PDF).
Native Children’s Survival – PEOPLES POWER – Public Service Awareness Campaign.
Click here to view all our NCS Campaign Clips.
ORGANIZATIONS NCS SUPPORTS
AMERICAN INDIAN INSTITUTE
“Traditional Circle of Indian Elders and Youth”
The Traditional Circle of Indian Elders and Youth is composed of grassroots spiritual leaders from Indian nations throughout North America. Structured in the ancestral way, the Circle is open to all traditional Indian people. It serves as a living repository of indigenous wisdom and values. Its focus is exclusively on perpetuating traditional cultural and spiritual values.
Contact: AMERICAN INDIAN INSTITUTE
AMERICAN INDIAN LAW ALLIANCE
“Let us put our minds together and see what kind of life we can make for our children.”
Founded by Tonya Gonnella Frichner (Onondaga Nation, Snipe Clan) the American Indian Law Alliance is an indigenous, non-profit organization that works with Indigenous nations, communities and organizations in our struggle for sovereignty, human rights, and social justice for our peoples. We support our elders and leaders and are accountable to the communities we serve. We welcome our allies, while remaining committed to our original instructions handed down through generations of ancestors in order to preserve Indigenous traditions for our descendants.
The American Indian Law Alliance, is a Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The American Indian Law Alliance has earned the respect and support of Indigenous peoples worldwide in their over 20 years of experience working within the United Nations in defense of the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Contact:
American Indian Law Alliance
121 West 27th Street Suite 201, New York, NY 10001
1.212.477.9100 phone | 1.212.477.0004 fax
ailanyc.org
APACHE SURVIVAL COALITION
“Protect Endagered Sacred Sites”
Native religious and cultural rights, such as ‘DZIL NCHAA SI’ AN’ ? the Apache holy land known as Mount Graham.
Contact:
Apache Survival Coalition
P.O. Box 1237 San Carlos, AZ 85550
520-475-2543 | Ole Cassadore-Davis, Chairperson
BLACKFEET BEAR ROOTS ASSOCIATION
“As Indigenous People we must preserve and protect our traditional medicines and our way of life from extinction.”
The Blackfeet Bear Roots Association (BBRA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Glacier County, Montana. The BBRA mission is to preserve traditional wisdom, values and culture and to improve the health and environment on the reservation.
The BBRA training program for Native Americans focuses on the skills, methods and sensitive cultural issues involved in Native plant horticulture and ecosystem restoration. Utilizing modern organic horticulture technology in conjunction with traditional Blackfeet horticulture, the BBRA works with spiritual leaders, elders and youth to grow and produce alternative food sources, medicinal herbs, plants and roots to help improve the quality of their community now and for the generations to come.
Contact:
Blackfeet Bear Roots Association
P.O. Box 1677 Browning, MT 59417
EYAK PRESERVATION COUNCIL
“Protect and Preserve Our Wild Places”
The Eyak Preservation Council’s mission is to protect the inherent rights of culture, heritage, language and ancestral lands needed to preserve and restore the Eyak tribe’s continued existence as an independently recognized Alaska tribal nation. An intact ecosystem is a living monument of proof, that we, as a human race, can coexist in harmony with the planet into the 21st century and beyond.
Contact:
Eyak Preservation Council
P.O. 460, Cordova, Alaska 99574
907.424.5890 (v) 907.424.5891 (f)
www.redzone.org
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL – FREE NATIVE AMERICAN POLITICAL PRISONER LEONARD PELTIER
Contact:
The New Peltier Justice Campaign Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
PO Box 583 Lawrence, KS 66044
785-842-5774
www.whoisleonardpeltier.info
Amnesty International | www.amnesty.org
GWICH’IN STEERING COMMITTEE
“Permanent Protection Of The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain Is Our Birthright”
The Gwich’in Steering Committee was established in1988 by consensus resolution of the leaders of the Gwich’in Nation. Gwich’in spokespeople from Alaska and Canada were selected to achieve the goal of permanent protection of the Sacred Place Where Life Begins, Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit the Porcupine Caribou Herd’s calving and nursery grounds. For over 20,000 years the Porcupine Caribou Herd has been the basis of the culture for the Gwich’in comparable to the Plains Tribes and the buffalo. 100 tribes and inter-tribal organizations have passed resolutions of support including the National Congress of American Indians, the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council, Tanana Chiefs Conference and the Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments.”
GWICH’IN NATION CALLS ON ALL SUPPORTERS TO TAKE URGENT ACTION NOW TO PROTECT ARCTIC REFUGE
The fate of the Arctic Refuge is the fate of the people of the Gwich’in Nation. The Arctic Refuge must not be sacrificed to meet the high energy consumption lifestyle of the U.S. The Gwich’in must not sacrifice our ancestral way of life it is our birthright and that of the future generations as we have had since time immemorial.
The Gwich’in Steering Committee
122 First Avenue, Box 2
Fairbanks, AK. 99701
Tel (907) 458-8264
Fax (907) 457-8265
Web: www.gwichinsteeringcommittee.org
SEVENTH GENERATION FUND
“In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation.”
The Seventh Generation Fund is an Indigenous non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and maintaining the uniqueness of Native peoples throughout the Americas. We offer an integrated program of advocacy, small grants, training and technical assistance, media experience and fiscal management, lending our support and extensive expertise to Indigenous grassroots communities.
Our organization derives its name from a precept of the Great Law of Peace of the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy) which mandates that chiefs consider the impact of their decisions on the seventh generation yet to come. Learn about us, the programs and services we provide, our grantmaking guidelines and giving philosophies, upcoming events, on line publications and so much more!
Contact:
Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development
P.O. Box 4569
Arcata, CA 95518 or
425 I Street, Arcata, CA 95521
Phone: (707) 825-7640
Fax: (707) 825-7639
Website: www.7genfund.org