Justicia Digna was founded to address injustices. We live in the gaps and intersections where we witness and experience these injustices. Our families and communities are directly impacted by systemic injustices. We hold deep understandings of the harms while we also hold deeply valuable knowledge and ways of knowing.

Justicia Digna was founded by Indigenous peoples from east, west, north, and south. Our people and board members bring kinship ties to the lands and people across Turtle Island and Abia Yala. Our founders envisioned an organization led by Indigenous peoples; for Indigenous peoples; and grounded in our ways and shared cultural vales.

We are impacted by injustices we have witnessed first-hand as survivors of genocides, wars, living with gender violence epidemics, anti-Indigenous attacks and erasure, policies that undermine our sovereignty, self-determination, and the multiple ways that settler colonialism separates and removes us from our ancestral lands and obligations to steward our homelands and communities.

Our founder and founding board members represent Indigenous leaders with breadth and depth of experience. We have have worked in Indigenous issues including: working with Indigenous migrant families separated at the U.S. - Mexico border, within Indigenous environmental movements such as the No DAPL movement, defending and advancing the rights of Indigenous girls, women, and TSLGBTQ relatives, in repatriation & rematriation efforts, international Indigenous rights, Indigenous language revitalization, education, language justice, cultural leadership within our Indigenous nations and pueblos, MMIW/R movements, as water protectors and land defenders, eagle-condor bridge-making, civil and human rights, law, and within traditional Indigenous collective governance. Some of us are first-language speakers of our Indigenous languages and others are learning and reconnecting.

We seek justice in our own terms and through our own protocols. Our ideas of justice are defined by Indigenous concepts and practices of justice. Indigenous justice is collective and guided by our traditional Indigenous laws and systems. Our laws and governments were created thousands of years ago and are still maintained today. Ancestral authorities and traditional collective or shared governance models or governments still live today. Our laws may not be practiced on paper or in brick and mortar buildings but are supported by never-ending connections to our Indigenous cosmologies. Who needs paper and libraries when everyone can access justice written in the stars? Our laws are built into our collective cultural practices that right relations and bring harmony to all living things.

Through innovative programming rooted in our traditional knowledge and ways, we honor and elevate our Indigenous ways. We believe there is a better way. Our work in the arts, education, environmental stewardship, and legal and non-legal advocacy offer meaningful opportunities for collective growth. We work with our pueblos, nations, and communities to cultivate opportunities for developing meaningful relationships. These relationships and intersections where we meet, are places for us to begin to develop greater solutions on our own terms. The ecosystems where we come together offer models for working and living that are regenerative and rooted in the traditional knowledge and ways that grew from these lands.