“We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking, and healing are vitally needed today. We come together to nurture, educate, and train our children. We come together to uphold the practice of our ceremonies and affirm the right to use our plant medicines free of legal restriction. We come together to protect the lands where our peoples live and upon which our cultures depend, to safeguard the collective heritage of traditional medicines, and to defend the Earth Herself. We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future.”

The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers includes:

Aama Bombo (Tamang from Nepal)

Margaret Behan (Arapaho/Cheyenne from Montana)

Rita Pitka Blumenstein (Yup’ik from the Alaskan Tundra) 

Julieta Casimiro (Mazatec from Huautla de Jimenez, Mexico)

Maria Alice Campos Freire (from the Amazonian Rainforest in Brazil)

Flordemayo (Mayan from the Highlands of Central America and New Mexico)

Tsering Dolma Gyaltong(Tibetan)

Beatrice Long (Oglala Lakota from the Black Hills of South Dakota)

Rita Long (Oglala Lakota from the Black Hills of South Dakota)

Agnes Baker Pilgrim (Takelma Siletz from Grants Pass in Oregon)

Mona Polacca (Hopi/Havasupai/Tewa from Arizona)

Bernadette Rebienot (Omyene from Gabon in Africa)

Clara Shinobu Iura(from the Amazonian Rainforest in Brazil)

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