In 2007, when environmental consciousness came more clearly into the hearts and minds of Americans, RNCI founder Joanelle Romero was already breaking new ground by dedicating the City’s second annual American Indian Heritage Month to “Honoring American Indians as our Nation’s First Environmentalists.”

In where, American Indian Holocaust Memorial was launched in Los Angeles, in bringing National attention to the American Indian Holocaust in planting a tree in honoring the ‘Great Law of Peace.’ In 2017, Romero gathered Indigenous leaders and launched American Indian Holocaust Memorial in Washington D.C.