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International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management profile
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| International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management | |||
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| Statement of Purpose: | The Institute is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation established in 1997 to help Indian tribes and other indigenous peoples use, manage, and develop their natural, cultural and human resources and protect their environments in ways that strengthen tribal sovereignty and self-determination and that comport with their culture and traditions. | ||
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| Address: | 444 South Emerson St., Denver, CO 80209-2216 | ||
| Phone Number: | 303-733-0481 | ||
| Fax: | 303-744-9808 | ||
| Email Address: | iiirm@iiirm.org | ||
| Web Site: | www.iiirm.org | ||
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| Director(s): | David Conrad, William (Jack) Hibbert, Morris Te Whiti Love | ||
| Key Personnel: | Mervyn L. Tano, President; Jeanne M. Rubin, General Counsel | ||
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| Founded: | 1997 | ||
| Community Served: | Indian tribes in the U.S. and Canada and other indigenous peoples internationally | ||
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| Ongoing Projects: | The Institute is primarily a law and policy research and educational institute. Institute staff and associates examine economic development, science, resource development, and environmental policies, laws, and regulations to identify the impact such policies, laws, and regulations will have on tribal and other indigenous cultural, social, political, economic, and other systems. For example, the Institute is currently examining how the spiritual and other cultural beliefs of native peoples affect their perceptions and acceptance of genetic research and how research policy can accommodate their concerns. To carry out its education mission, the Institute conducts workshops, roundtables, and conferences on the scientific, legal, ethical, cultural and policy aspects of a wide range of natural resource management, environmental protection, and research issues. The Institute also operates a very successful internship program. | ||
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| Accomplishments: | We are proud of the Institute’s internship program, which has inspired and motivated interns to envision and pursue their educational and career goals. Approximately two dozen interns have passed through the doors of the Institute and many have found, or reaffirmed, a direction and focus that has propelled them into meaningful careers on behalf of their tribes or in the national and international policy arena. We also take pride in the impact we have had on national policy. The Institute was instrumental in moving the national discourse on environmental justice from a paradigm of distributive justice (in which environmental degradation can be justified if it is “equally distributed”) to a model of empowerment (in which tribes and other communities are empowered to participate in decision making to protect or advance their interests). The Institute has also been working with tribes to expand the concept of cultural resources management from strictly sacred sites and artifacts to include intangible heritage (stories, language, songs and other elements of intangible heritage). We count among our major achievements the creation of an annual Indigenous Film & Arts Festival in Denver. | ||
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