The goal is to raise $65,000 in 2004.

You provide critical support to the indigenous peoples of Eastern Siberia, Russia and Mongolia when you give to the Totem Peoples Preservation Project, but your gift is far more influential in its impact! Your contribution means action in global conservation efforts by funding the essential body of knowledge that comes with studying and preserving indigenous cultures and the environment. Your dollars in any amount toward our goal of $45,000 this year will do so much:

  $8,000 to meet Totem goals to continue nomadic agricultural training, veterinary and herder partnerships for both the Toja-Tyvan and Dukha reindeer herders.

  Native-rights programs advancing the herder-to-government cooperation and rights issues need upwards of $10,000 to support the Evenk Youth Group GUIEVUN, and Joja-Tyvan and Dukha rights efforts in Siberia and Mongolia.

  $9,000 is needed to fully implement international exchange work this year from the Adirondack Region to the Republic of Buryatia, Russia.

The unique, ongoing effort for implementing the Lake Baikal - Sayan - Lake Hovsgol Peace Park requires $11,000 for support of transboundary native rights and ecological work address­ing major issues confronting the peace park. Among these issues are proposals by conglomer­ate oil and natural gas corporations to build extensive pipelines through protected areas with little or no direct involvement or authority granted to native residents.

The Totem Project is committed to native rights recognition. Your support means continuing leadership in native-issues seminars. We will fund the first elders' delegation of Dukha leaders to Mongolia's capital in 14 years in concert with colleagues from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, and Dukha and Mongolian colleagues, including Taiga Nature, a non-govern­ment organization. Funding will also make possible seminars for Tozhu and Evenk natives seeking to gain more authority over their lands and resources.

Please send your check today!

For your contribution of $150 or more, you will receive a gift packet of eight, four-color note cards with beautiful photographs of the Dukha and other Totem Peoples by Dan Plumley.

Contributors of $250 or more will receive the mote cards and a year's subscription to Cultural Survival Quarterly, the leading international rights magazine for native peoples.