TE HA
Alliance for Indigenous Solidarity
Nourishing the Soil
Te Ha in the Maori language: the breath of life we all share. Te Ha is a global Indigenous alliance and network, bringing communities together in physical and virtual spaces for reciprocal learning and mutual support. The purpose of Te Ha is to ignite and strengthen intercultural solidarity, collective action, and reciprocity founded in Indigenous sovereignty/autonomy and ways of knowing, learning, and being in relation to the lands, seas, and skies.
Poster art by Wikuki Kingi
Through the Te Ha alliance, we:
Increase organizational capacity, resilience and sustainability for all partners
Revitalize Indigenous lifeways and create unity and healing through reigniting ceremony and related cultural practices
Develop educational programs based in decolonizing our minds/bodies and land/sea-based learning and sharing
Support self-determined, sovereign/autonomous, and resilient communities who safe-guard Indigenous rights through collective action
Affirm Indigenous ways of knowing and sharing through language, cultural arts, oral traditions, media and a Native web
Protect ancestral territories and sacred places, both lands and waters
Renew sustainable, interdependent Indigenous ways of doing and knowing in relation with the earth, especially in the face of climate change
Support thriving, healthy communities rooted in food and seed sovereignty
