"Measures should be taken to ensure that Indigenous Peoples have access to studies on the potential human rights impact of proposed projects that would affect their territories; those studies should be conducted by independent entities in accordance with international standards and taking into account the Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge of their environment."

"Given the inadequacies of the States’ environmental assessment processes, our Nations had to develop their own review process that was built on the principle of 'Walking on Two Legs,' based on our Nations' and on Western’s sciences and knowledge systems, in a way that respects our perspectives, laws, and customs. In this process, the knowledge and support from Western science experts, many of whom are now part of the FAIME database, was as crucial as those of our Elders, hunters, and medicine people, and of our rich collective knowledge and history that go back millennia"

“Dealing with one of the oldest, largest and most complex Superfund Sites in the country, LEAD Agency has struggled against federal and state agencies who have failed, over decades, to protect our communities from off-site exposure to contaminants.  With the help from both science and legal experts, who are now among those listed on the FAIME database, we have been able to push the agencies in a better direction, and advance our cleanup position in a more powerful way, bringing justice to this area where 10 tribes are impacted by these abandoned lead and zinc mines”