ABOUT INdigenous justice

We are working to end the incarceration of living native peoples in jails, prisons, and group homes across the state, to end the incarceration of our Salmon relatives impacted by dams on our rivers, and to end the incarceration of our ancestors' skeletons locked away in basements of universities. We are doing this through developing powerful indigenous leaders and communities and organizing with them to transform the systems, structures, and stories that keep us all imprisoned both physically and spiritually.

Over the past 4 years, we’ve made concrete progress towards our goal of liberating, defending, and decolonizing our food systems, ancestors, and current living relatives.

Through our umbilical cords we are connected to the salmon nation, and as we are interconnected through this reciprocal relationship. We could not survive unless all are in balance.

ABOUT OUR Founder

Morning Star Gali is a member of the Ajumawi band of Pit River Tribe. From 2016-2018 she was a Rosenberg Leading Edge Fellow focusing on the disproportionate impact of the criminal and juvenile justice systems on Native Americans. She has worked as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Pit River Tribe. She continues to lead large-scale actions while helping organize Native cultural, spiritual, scholarly, and political gatherings throughout California. Morning Star is deeply committed to advocating for indigenous sovereignty issues such as missing & murdered indigenous women, climate justice, gender justice and sacred sites protection on behalf of the tribal and intertribal communities that she was raised within.

As’ water

Allis’ salmon

Is’ person

Issi wa all that is sacred from the beginning of time

aˑl̓ú umbilical cord

aˑl̓uˑwít cord place

Áˑlúwí (alt) Salmon

We commit to our healing and transformation, fully and unilaterally.