Diné CARE

Navajo Nation, AZ

"​We seek to empower, give voice to, and protect the interests of Diné (Navajo) communities. We started as a small, community-based organization in 1988 to prevent the location of a medical waste incinerator and dump in the Navajo community of Dilkon, Arizona. After our successful defense in Dilkon, we received considerable regional attention, and were soon called upon by other Navajo groups to assist in facilitating similar efforts. We have thus grown into a multi-issue, Reservation-wide organization. Our growth has permitted us the chance to share among our Diné people many experiences and struggles, and to see a distressing pattern in the way the system of funding and supporting environmental activism fails to work in Native lands."–Diné CARE's website