Indigenous Women from Across Nations

United by a commitment to Sovereignty, Justice, and Collective Liberation

PLUME is built by the women who have spent their lives defending Indigenous rights — in tribal councils, in courtrooms, in ceremonial spaces, and on the floor of the United Nations.

Meet Our Leadership

Our Foundation

Decades of Frontline Experience. One Shared Commitment.

PLUME brings together Indigenous women leaders with decades of experience advancing Indigenous Peoples’ rights through tribal governance, international human rights and law, cultural preservation, policy advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Our founding leadership includes the first woman Sundance Leader, former Tribal Chairwomen, national policy and movement leaders, and architects of international Indigenous women’s and Indigenous Peoples’ rights advocacy—including leaders of the International Indigenous Women’s Forum (FIMI) and co-founders and regional coordinators of the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA).

Together, we carry generations of knowledge, movement-building experience, and a shared commitment to advancing the rights, leadership, and self-determination of Indigenous women and girls.

We are rooted in rematriation and spiritual strength—honoring the matriarchal traditions that have sustained our Peoples through generations of resistance, survival, and renewal, while building the institutions and infrastructure those traditions need to flourish today and for generations to come.

Our Mission & Vision

We strengthen the rights, leadership, and collective power of Indigenous women and girls and Indigenous Peoples—protecting what is sacred, restoring balance, and shaping just futures.

A world where Indigenous Peoples’ rights are common sense.

Where Indigenous women and girls hold decision-making power over the choices that shape our lives, lands, communities, and Nations—whether on our homelands or in cities.

Where our cultures, knowledge, languages, and spiritual traditions are protected, practiced, and passed forward.

And where sovereignty is not a concession granted by colonial governments, but the living reality of our Peoples.

Why We Organize

For generations, Indigenous women have carried knowledge, responsibility, and spiritual authority within our Peoples—often without the recognition, space, resources, or decision-making power that leadership requires.

"When Indigenous Women lead, Nations heal."

The legacy of colonialism continues to shape the lives of Indigenous women and girls—through violence, displacement, erasure, and the disruption of our relationships to land, culture, ceremony, and community.

And still, we carry forward.

Across generations, Indigenous women and girls have carried knowledge, responsibility, vision, and the strength to sustain our Peoples. Too often, that leadership has gone unsupported, unrecognized, or without the space it deserves.

We organize because our voices, safety, leadership, and futures matter because our daughters deserve more than survival. Because our Nations are stronger when Indigenous women and girls have the power, leadership support, and resources to lead, decide, create, and thrive.

PLUME builds the relationships, resources, and pathways that allow that leadership to take root and endure—so Indigenous women and girls can shape the futures of our families, communities, and Nations.

How PLUME is organized

PLUME operates through two interconnected structures designed to advance the rights and leadership of Indigenous women and girls at every level—from community organizing and Nation-based advocacy to national policy and international human rights spaces.

PLUME Institute

The research and knowledge arm of PLUME. The Institute conducts Indigenous-led research, develops policy frameworks, creates educational materials, and provides technical assistance to Tribal Nations and Indigenous women's organizations, integrating international human rights standards into their work.

PLUME Alliance

The network and movement-building arm of PLUME. The Alliance connects Indigenous women's organizations, tribal governments, and allies across Nations and geographies — building the collective infrastructure for coordinated advocacy, resource sharing, and sustained political action.