- Source: Intertribal Council on Utility Policy
The Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, or Intertribal COUP, is a Native American nonprofit organization founded in 1994. It focuses on energy, telecommunications, and environmental issues affecting member tribes in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming.
The fifteen tribal nations represented in COUP are:
Cheyenne River
Flandreau Santee
Lower Brulé
Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations
Northern Arapaho
Omaha
Rosebud Sioux
Sisseton
Spirit Lake Tribe
Pine Ridge Sioux
Standing Rock Sioux
Yankton Sioux
Intertribal COUP owns a major stake in a company that markets carbon offsets and renewable energy credits and funds projects such as wind farms on Indian reservations.
See also
Council of Energy Resource Tribes
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Intertribal Council on Utility Policy
- Intertribal
- Eddie Spears
- Michael Spears
- Native Wind
- Indian termination policy
- Project on Indigenous Governance and Development
- United States Department of Agriculture
- New York City
- Philadelphia