🤝🏾 Agreements and Legal Instruments
Activities
Nila Indigenous Land Trust Strategy
The aim is a Native-led land trust that can travel as a model—returning land and authority to tribal stewardship. Elements include: - USD 6–9 million for conservation easements on Kvichak Corporate lands—blocking incompatible development and speculative lodge buyouts. - USD 10 million via the Kuicaak Fund to reassemble fractionated ANCSA allotments that fragment control. - USD 2 million already raised to secure a wildlife corridor between Lake Clark and Katmai. If the corporation advances conservation on upper Caskan and Queac reaches while tribes aggregate allotments, parties could later negotiate trust terms that centre community stewardship.
Traditional Knowledge in Governance
The cooperative is entering a cooperative service agreement with the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) so these bioregional models can guide program funding—for example, funding agroforestry only where traditional practice indicates agroforestry fits, avoiding projects that mismatch place. Early thinking also asks how this bioregional lens could inform legislation and public land management in Hawaiʻi today—a bridge from Indigenous and place-based knowledge into contemporary governance.
Dartington Charter & Dance
The UK's first River Charter was established at Dartington in 2019, which recognizes the river's intrinsic rights alongside its role in supporting biodiversity and community wellbeing. The Charter has since been integrated into Dartington's Neighbourhood Plan and local religious pilgrimage routes.