#indigenousrights — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #indigenousrights, aggregated by home.social.
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Nuevas #escenaseliminadas :heart_fire: Entre recuerdos de racismo cotidiano, silencios del mapudungún y sueños en lengua recuperada, Francisco Huichaqueo+la investigadora y activista mapuche Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta hilvanan relatos sobre restos humanos y “prendas de memoria” mapuches retenidas en museos europeos+norteamericanos, procesos de restitución+pequeños gestos de desobediencia institucional
https://rwm.macba.cat/es/podcasts/sonia-458-francisco-huichaqueo-escenas-eliminadas/
#pueblosindigenas #IndigenousRights #restitution #Art #podcast #mapuche
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Nuevas #escenaseliminadas :heart_fire: Entre recuerdos de racismo cotidiano, silencios del mapudungún y sueños en lengua recuperada, Francisco Huichaqueo+la investigadora y activista mapuche Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta hilvanan relatos sobre restos humanos y “prendas de memoria” mapuches retenidas en museos europeos+norteamericanos, procesos de restitución+pequeños gestos de desobediencia institucional
https://rwm.macba.cat/es/podcasts/sonia-458-francisco-huichaqueo-escenas-eliminadas/
#pueblosindigenas #IndigenousRights #restitution #Art #podcast #mapuche
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Nuevas #escenaseliminadas :heart_fire: Entre recuerdos de racismo cotidiano, silencios del mapudungún y sueños en lengua recuperada, Francisco Huichaqueo+la investigadora y activista mapuche Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta hilvanan relatos sobre restos humanos y “prendas de memoria” mapuches retenidas en museos europeos+norteamericanos, procesos de restitución+pequeños gestos de desobediencia institucional
https://rwm.macba.cat/es/podcasts/sonia-458-francisco-huichaqueo-escenas-eliminadas/
#pueblosindigenas #IndigenousRights #restitution #Art #podcast #mapuche
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Nuevas #escenaseliminadas :heart_fire: Entre recuerdos de racismo cotidiano, silencios del mapudungún y sueños en lengua recuperada, Francisco Huichaqueo+la investigadora y activista mapuche Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta hilvanan relatos sobre restos humanos y “prendas de memoria” mapuches retenidas en museos europeos+norteamericanos, procesos de restitución+pequeños gestos de desobediencia institucional
https://rwm.macba.cat/es/podcasts/sonia-458-francisco-huichaqueo-escenas-eliminadas/
#pueblosindigenas #IndigenousRights #restitution #Art #podcast #mapuche
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Nuevas #escenaseliminadas :heart_fire: Entre recuerdos de racismo cotidiano, silencios del mapudungún y sueños en lengua recuperada, Francisco Huichaqueo+la investigadora y activista mapuche Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta hilvanan relatos sobre restos humanos y “prendas de memoria” mapuches retenidas en museos europeos+norteamericanos, procesos de restitución+pequeños gestos de desobediencia institucional
https://rwm.macba.cat/es/podcasts/sonia-458-francisco-huichaqueo-escenas-eliminadas/
#pueblosindigenas #IndigenousRights #restitution #Art #podcast #mapuche
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120 people signed up for our session on The Kaleka Project. 60 joined live.
Standy Christianto, Destano Anugerahnu and Krismelia Y. Panji of the Borneo Institute, with Cristian Moreno Garcia of Weltweit e.V., on their work with Dayak communities in Central Kalimantan.
Two strands: legal empowerment, so communities can advocate for their own land rights, and preserving indigenous crop diversity, which keeps them self-sufficient.
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120 people signed up for our session on The Kaleka Project. 60 joined live.
Standy Christianto, Destano Anugerahnu and Krismelia Y. Panji of the Borneo Institute, with Cristian Moreno Garcia of Weltweit e.V., on their work with Dayak communities in Central Kalimantan.
Two strands: legal empowerment, so communities can advocate for their own land rights, and preserving indigenous crop diversity, which keeps them self-sufficient.
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120 people signed up for our session on The Kaleka Project. 60 joined live.
Standy Christianto, Destano Anugerahnu and Krismelia Y. Panji of the Borneo Institute, with Cristian Moreno Garcia of Weltweit e.V., on their work with Dayak communities in Central Kalimantan.
Two strands: legal empowerment, so communities can advocate for their own land rights, and preserving indigenous crop diversity, which keeps them self-sufficient.
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120 people signed up for our session on The Kaleka Project. 60 joined live.
Standy Christianto, Destano Anugerahnu and Krismelia Y. Panji of the Borneo Institute, with Cristian Moreno Garcia of Weltweit e.V., on their work with Dayak communities in Central Kalimantan.
Two strands: legal empowerment, so communities can advocate for their own land rights, and preserving indigenous crop diversity, which keeps them self-sufficient.
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120 people signed up for our session on The Kaleka Project. 60 joined live.
Standy Christianto, Destano Anugerahnu and Krismelia Y. Panji of the Borneo Institute, with Cristian Moreno Garcia of Weltweit e.V., on their work with Dayak communities in Central Kalimantan.
Two strands: legal empowerment, so communities can advocate for their own land rights, and preserving indigenous crop diversity, which keeps them self-sufficient.
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#News: #Deforestation isn't the disease—it's a symptom. The real crisis is lax #governance, corruption and militarised enabling of #indigenous #landgrabbing. To protect forests we MUST restore #IndigenousRights, enforce #laws #BoycottGold4Yanomami #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/deforestation-is-just-a-symptom-the-disease-is-de-governance-commentary/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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#News: #Deforestation isn't the disease—it's a symptom. The real crisis is lax #governance, corruption and militarised enabling of #indigenous #landgrabbing. To protect forests we MUST restore #IndigenousRights, enforce #laws #BoycottGold4Yanomami #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/deforestation-is-just-a-symptom-the-disease-is-de-governance-commentary/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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#News: #Deforestation isn't the disease—it's a symptom. The real crisis is lax #governance, corruption and militarised enabling of #indigenous #landgrabbing. To protect forests we MUST restore #IndigenousRights, enforce #laws #BoycottGold4Yanomami #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/deforestation-is-just-a-symptom-the-disease-is-de-governance-commentary/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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#News: #Deforestation isn't the disease—it's a symptom. The real crisis is lax #governance, corruption and militarised enabling of #indigenous #landgrabbing. To protect forests we MUST restore #IndigenousRights, enforce #laws #BoycottGold4Yanomami #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/deforestation-is-just-a-symptom-the-disease-is-de-governance-commentary/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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I wonder. Thousands of years ago, Borneo was cared for by its natives. Then colonisers came with weapons, taking the land by force. They brought outsiders to serve their needs. Now, the natives feel this is no longer their land — it belongs to landlords with no roots here, no ties to the people, and no conscience.
#Borneo #Sabah #Sarawak #IndigenousRights #LandJustice #Colonialism #CustomaryLand #NativeCustomaryRights #NCR #Decolonisation #History #SocialJustice #LivedExperience #Extractive
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DATE: August 28, 2026 at 12:13PM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORGTITLE: Forced Birth Control in Greenland Violated Women's Rights, Experts Find
Source: Al Jazeera
Greenland is establishing a truth and reconciliation commission regarding a forced contraceptive scheme against Indigenous girls and women, after two expert reports failed to agree whether it constituted genocide. From the 1960s to the 1990s, at least 4,000 Greenlandic Inuits—including girls as young as 12—received intrauterine devices or contraceptive injections, often without their consent or knowledge, a joint Danish-Greenlandic inquiry...
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #ForcedBirthControl #Greenland #IndigenousRights #ReconciliationCommission #GenocideDebate #WomensRights #ContraceptionInformedConsent #DanishGreenlandicInquiry #TruthAndReconciliation #HealthConsentIssues
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First there were coalmines, then came the windfarms. Why Colombia’s Wayúu people fear Colombia’s green energy boom https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/22/mining-windfarm-renewable-colombia-wayuu-people-green-energy-boom #Colombia #Indigenous #UNDRIP #coalmines #windfarms #GreenEnergy #IndigenousRights
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Canada Energy Regulator says it will hold Imperial Oil accountable for proper cleanup of Norman Wells oilfield
#Indigenous #MackenzieValley #Canada #NormanWells #ImperialOil #CER #Regulator #OilCleanup #Mining #IndigenousRights #Reclamation #Environment
https://the-14.com/canada-energy-regulator-says-it-will-hold-imperial-oil-accountable-for-proper-cleanup-of-norman-wells-oilfield/ -
We all knew this could happen!!!
#Uranium Ore Truck Collision Endangered #Navajos near #Shonto on #NavajoNation
May 11, 2026, via @bsnorrell.blogspot.com
"A uranium ore haul truck traveling from a uranium mine in the Havasupai's homeland in the Grand Canyon, to a mill site in the White Mesa Ute's community in Utah, was struck by a vehicle, which exposes the danger from the #radioactive haul trucks covered only with tarps. The trucks travel from #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine in the #GrandCanyon, from #Havasupai ancestral land, through #Flagstaff, and across #Navajo and #Hopi lands before reaching Energy Fuels mill site on Ute ancestral land in #Utah." -- Censored News
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/05/uranium-ore-truck-collision-endangered.html#USPol #NativeAmericanNews #PinyonPlainUraniumMine #NoUraniumMining #UraniumMilling #NuclearColonialism #TheLongFight #WhiteMesa #Ute #WhiteMesaUte #UraniumMilling #ProtectWhiteMesa #BlandingUtah #BluffUtah #EnvironmentalActivism
#PinyonPlain #IndigenousRights
#NoUranium #ProtectTheSacred
#WhiteMesaUte #WhiteMesaMill #WhiteMesaUraniumMill
#WaterIsLife #DontNukeTheFuture
#NoUraniumMining #NukingTheUte
#UteNation #NoNukes #FourCornersToFukushima #MotherEarth #ProtectMotherEarth
#DefendTheSacred #Environment
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The fight isn't over to #ProtectTheSacred!
"#NDNCollective, a Rapid City-based nonprofit that advocates for #IndigenousRights, is among the lawsuit plaintiffs.
" 'From the #LandDefenders who occupied two active drill pads for a week, to fighting in the courts through multiple lawsuits and a temporary restraining order, today’s win is multi-faceted and offers a blueprint for future #LandDefense fights,' NDN said Friday in a press release.
"Future fights include one scheduled for the week of May 18. The state Board of Minerals and Environment is scheduled to conduct a hearing in Hot Springs on a proposal to conduct exploratory drilling for #uranium in the southern #BlackHills.
"That project would be near #CravenCanyon, where the rock walls are carved with Native American petroglyphs believed to be thousands of years old."
Read more:
https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2026/05/08/company-withdraws-from-controversial-black-hills-exploratory-drilling-project/#ProtectTheSacred #IndigenousResistance #LakotaYouths
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Made this during Trump's first term. Felt relevant to dust off while the billionaires are still pretending to pick sides.
Usually my work doesn't lean so political: https://foxandthistle.studio/
#foxandthistle #Illustration #PoliticalArt #Satire #PoliticalSatire #EditorialIllustration #Mastodon #Art #Resist #Trump #NFLDraft #Washington #Commanders #Redskins #DigitalArt #MastoArt #IndigenousRights
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Greenland annexation threats ‘bewildering,’ Nunavut premier says
#IndigenousPeoples #Inuit #IndigenousRights #Nunavut #Canada #Greenland #Arctic #Colonialism #USPolitics #Sovereignty #Trump #USA #Politics #The14 #The14Media
https://the-14.com/greenland-annexation-threats-bewildering-nunavut-premier-says/ -
A unanimous decision made by the #Sipeknekatik #FirstNation chief and council, have moved to ban #NovaScotia #Premier Tim Houston, #AttorneyGeneral Scott Armstrong and Minister of #Indigenous Affairs Leah Martin from their lands and events.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CYVArsBuNE0
#APTNnews #APTN #IndigenousRights #Decolonization #NSpoli #Maritimes #IndigenousSovereignty #KKKanada #LandBack #UNDRIP #IndigenousNews #Banned #Mikmaw
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2025 #UraniumFilmFestival - The Long Fight
USA, 2025, Directed, shot and edited by Ella Warnick, English, 17 min.
"In southeastern Utah, just a few miles upstream of the White Mesa Ute Mountain Ute Tribal reservation, sits the last operating uranium mill in the United States. The Long Fight tells the story of one family's decades-long resistance to the mill and its toxic reign over their ancestral homeland."
FMI:
https://www.ellawarnick.com/documentary#NuclearColonialism #TheLongFight #WhiteMesa #Ute #WhiteMesaUte #UraniumMilling #ProtectWhiteMesa #BlandingUtah #BluffUtah #EnvironmentalActivism
#PinyonPlain #IndigenousRights
#NoUranium #ProtectTheSacred
#WhiteMesaUte #WhiteMesaMill #WhiteMesaUraniumMill
#WaterIsLife #DontNukeTheFuture
#NoUraniumMining #NukingTheUte
#UteNation #NoNukes #FourCornersToFukushima #MotherEarth #ProtectMotherEarth
#DefendTheSacred #Environment
#EnvironmentalRacism #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival -
In the fall of 1985, a small group of #Haida people stood on a muddy #logging road on #LyellIsland —and refused to move. What followed was a landmark act of peaceful #resistance that helped spark a nationwide reckoning around land, #sovereignty and #environmental #justice. Drawing from over a hundred hours of electrifying #archival footage, The Stand immerses us in the tension, #courage and quiet #humanity of that moment.
Directed by Christopher Auchter (Now Is the Time), the film honours the #Elders , #activists and supernatural spirits who helped shape a new future for the #HaidaNation — and for all of #Canada.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/the-stand/
#BCForestryReform #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #BClogging #IndigenousLand #IndigenousRights #BritishColumbia #BCpoli #CDNpoli #FirstNations #IndigenousSovereignty #Landback #Documentary #CanadianFilm #NFB
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'#OnondagaLake in New York State: Seventeenth Century Origins of a Superfund Site' - an article in the #EnvironmentAndSociety Collection of The Rachel Carson Center and The White Horse Press on #ScienceOpen:
📑🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=65d6c9df-bfcb-4495-923e-a90ff95a5a95
#EnvironmentalHistory #Haudenosaunee #IndigenousRights #DecolonizeHistory #SacredLand
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Read @kosuradio article, "Tribal nations left with few options to resist Oklahoma's Westwin Elements due to complex history" by Sarah Liese
#lawton #lawtonOK #lawtonfortsill #oklahoma #OklahomaState #WestwinResistance #TheLawtonResistance #kosu #npr #greencolonialism #peopleoverprofits #IndigenousPeople #indigenouspeoples #indigenous #IndigenousSovereignty #indigenousrights #indigenousland #Indigenousresistance #indigenoussoverignty
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#Wetsuweten will be in court on August 21, 2025 as #Canada has filed a #MotionToStrike against their #climate #litigation case. Sound familiar? That’s because in July 2020, Canada filed a Motion to Strike against the Misdzi Yikh Charter challenge. Several years and an appeal hearing (that ended with the Federal Court of Appeal deciding that the section 7 of the Charter challenge was justiciable) later, Canada has filed for another Motion to Strike. Keep a lookout on RAVEN’s channels as we get closer to the hearing, we’ll be sharing lots of educational materials and actions to take to support Wet’suwet’en. Learn more about the #CharterCase and #donate to support the #legal action here.
https://raventrust.com/campaigns/wetsuweten/
#IndigenousRights #NativeRights #Law #CDNpoli #BCpoli #StopEcocide #Injustice #colonialism #capitalism #IndigenousLand #BritishColumbia #UNDRIP #FirstNations
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I want to find my people around here. Follow me if you relate to these hashtags and I will follow you back.
#Anarchism #Anarchy #Anarchist #Anarquismo #ancom #anarchocommunism #anarcocomunismo #anarcosindicalismo #anarchosyndicalism #AnarchoPunk
#portugal #portugues #portuguese
#freepalestine #freecongo #palestine #palestina #congo
#Feminism #Feminist #transfeminisme #transfeminismo #anarchafeminism #anarchatransfeminism #anarchoqueer
#lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #Queer #Trans #transrights #transgender #enby #enbypride #NonBinary #naobinarie #nãoBinariedade #bi #bisexual #pan #pansexual #sapphic #genderfluid #genderqueer
#nonmonogamy #relationalanarchy #polyamory #polyamour #polyamourous #ethicalnonmonogamy
#kink #kinky #kinkcommunity #kinkfriendly #bdsm #bdsmkink
#AntiFascism #Antifa #AntiFascist
#antiracism #decolonial #decolonize #indigenousrights
#Punk #metal #edm #techno #trance #funk #reggaeton #rap #hiphop
#anthropology #sociology #History #Philosophy #Politics #biology #socialsciences #Privacy #privacymatters #cybersecurity #forensic
#bones #bonecollector #ostheology #death #morbid #mortuarypractices #mortuary #mortuaryscience #deathpositive #deathpositivity
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#Landback includes #Hawaii & all those other places where so many people like to go on sunny vacations at & where many non-residents buy properties from colonial land thieves.
You can't be totally serious about #decolonization & the related landback issues - if you don't include Hawaii & other sunny holiday hotspots. That's just a selective, fragmented, unethical & immoral colonial mindset.
Decolonization & related landback issues aren't restricted to Turtle Island (North & South Americas) or Australia or Palestine. It's global.
#IndigenousRights #NativeLand #IndigenousLand #NativeMastodon #TruthBeforeReconcilation #Justice
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"Historic #HumanRights Ruling: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Ecuador violated the rights of uncontacted Indigenous peoples by permitting #OilDrilling in their territories. The ruling reinforces #IndigenousSovereignty, mandates environmental protections, and sets a legal precedent for Indigenous rights."
https://wildhunt.org/2025/03/historic-human-rights-ruling-court-orders-ecuador-to-protect-uncontacted-indigenous-peoples-from-oil-industry-encroachment.html
#IndigenousRights #InteramericanCourtOfHumanRights
#IndigenousAmericans
#AmazonForest #Ecuador #IndigenousLand
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Henry Benjamin Whipple, first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, decries the Treaty of Mendota, 1851, between the US, and the Mdewakanton and Wahpekute Dakota people. He says anyone who’s seen the land knows it’s unarable, and will increase the people’s anger.
Is this the job of ordained clergy? Or is this simply the role of being a shepherd of people, calling to repentance.
How can you reprove in the gate?
#christian #indigenousrights #inspiringquotes #virtues #globalreach
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Friend & fellow #environmental & #IndigenousRights #activist Logan Staats performing the #Mohawk #Haudenosaunee water song in #Langford - a year ago on one of his visits to #VancouverIsland.
Grandma Losa is standing beside him. #BCGreens MLA, Adam Olsen, is watching a few steps away. We went to support him at a #LangfordGreens event.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/t5fhKTZduXs?si=UB8DwkIFtfudvf-X
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Please join us! Volunteers & donations are always welcomed 🙌
#ClayoquotAction is a Tofino-based #conservation society committed to protecting the #biocultural diversity of #ClayoquotSound. Our goals are accomplished through public education, citizen research and monitoring, and advocacy. Clayoquot Action stands for #democratic rights, #IndigenousRights and the #RightsOfMotherEarth.
The Clayoquot Action vision is simple: to keep Clayoquot Sound clean and green for future generations, to preserve the #biodiversity and integrity of the #ecosystems, and to maintain and develop #community and #cultural richness.
Learn more & sign up:
https://clayoquotaction.org/#VancouverIsland #GetInvolved #Environmental #EcoJustice #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #BritishColumbia #Canada #Nonprofit #PNW #SaveWildSalmon #WildFirst #ProtectNature
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#Indigenous leaders: #PlanetaryHealth and #IndigenousHealth are interdependent
On day two of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the climate crisis that #IndigenousPeoples are overwhelmingly expected to bear was highlighted.
by Jenna Kunze April 19, 2023
"Indigenous peoples around the globe agree that their health and the health of the planet are interdependent and in jeopardy. On day two of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, or UNPFII, this fact — that Indigenous people make up 5% of the world’s population but are responsible for 80% of its biodiversity — was repeated again and again by global Indigenous leaders.
"'As we are all aware, Indigenous peoples have least contributed to the problems of climate change nonetheless, due to their interdependence with their vital environment in their ecosystems, they suffer at its worst effects,' said Francisco Cali Tzay on Tuesday, a #Mayan #Cakchiquel from #Guatemala and the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples. The Special Rapporteur keeps tabs on Indigenous peoples globally and reports back to The United Nations Commission on Human Rights on best practices.
"This year’s theme: human health, planetary and territorial health, and climate change gave attendees an opportunity to talk about the shortcomings of governments and non-Indigenous leaders. Others called upon the Permanent Forum to take action.
"#SanCarlosApache Tribal Chairman, Terry Rambler, drew attention to a “major human rights violation” happening at #OakFlat, a sacred area within #Arizona’s #TontoNationalForest where #ResolutionCopper — a joint venture of two mining giants #BHPBilliton and #RioTinto — seeks to develop one of the largest #CopperMines in North America.
"'Apache people have lived, prayed and died at Oak Flat from time immemorial,'
Rambler said. 'Every person by virtue of being human has the right to practice their religion. By violating the rights of Apaches to practice our religion and maintain our spiritual health and wellbeing, the United States is failing to comply with international standards incumbent on them.'"'By violating the rights of Apaches to practice our religion and maintain our spiritual health and wellbeing, the United States is failing to comply with international standards incumbent on them.'
"#Sámi youth from #Finland, #Sweden and #Norway called upon the Permanent Forum to urgently turn their attention to green transition projects in #Sápmi, the traditional territory of the Sámi, which stretches across the Nordic countries and into Russia.
"'In the name of saving the planet, the Nordic states are digging into our #mountains, drilling holes into our rocks, and making it impossible for Sámi to practice our #traditional livelihoods,' said Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi, a spokesperson for the delegation. 'What is being shown to the world as a shift to sustainability is just #Nordic #colonialism hiding behind a new kind of mask.'
"In 2021, Norway’s Supreme Court stripped the operating license of the Fosen Vind project on Norway’s west coast after ruling it was built illegally and violated the Sámi’s human rights, and in January, a Swedish state-owned mining company found 'vast amounts of #RareEarthMinerals' it could mine to decrease dependency on #China. That mining, however, would 'devastate the local Sámi community,' the Sámi youth said.
"'We demand the Nordic states to immediately halt the ongoing human rights violations against the Sámi,' they said. 'We plead the global Indigenous community to notice this green colonialism.'
"The #GlobalIndigenousYouthCaucus — composed of Indigenous youth from all seven regions within the UN — also made waves on Tuesday, calling on the Permanent Forum and the General Assembly to assist in perpetuating ancestral knowledge by enforcing an intergenerational Indigenous advisory group for bodies of the United Nations. That advisory group could share and apply #TraditionaKnowledge and #IndigenousMethodologies within UN agencies, such as the World Health Organization.
"'Environmental destruction not only contributes to #ClimateChange , but also impedes on our ability to access to traditional knowledge, traditional medicines, sacred sites, and traditional practices,' The Global Indigenous Youth Caucus spokesperson said. 'As Indigenous youth, we are future bearers of knowledge, and we hold both the knowledge of our ancestors, and our descendants.'
"Indigenous Rights Governance partner at the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, Claire Charters, gave an intervention about the disproportionate risks #Māori people are facing in a changing landscape.
"'We must ensure that Māori are centered in the discussions on mitigation and adapting to climate change, and that Indigenous knowledge is more deliberately considered,' Charters, who is Māori, said. 'Climate change is accelerating the severity and frequency of major weather events. We must act with urgency to understand the risks and minimize the impact on our lands, territories, cultural infrastructures, and the overall well being of our Indigenous communities.'
"Climate will remain a central theme in the upcoming days of the UNPFII. Tomorrow, the Native Women’s Association of Canada will host a session on 'Indigenous Women’s Perspectives On the Burning Issues of Climate Change', and the International Indian Treaty Council will join with other Indigenous Peoples Organizations to discuss the contentious conservation goal of 30×30 and how it violates the rights of Indigenous Peoples."
#WaterIsLife #ClimateCatastrophe #LandBack #LandDefenders #Koyaanisqatsi #LifeOutOfBalance #SaveThackerPass #LandBack #IndigenousRights #ExtinctionRebellion #LastStand #TheStand
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ICYMI - From 2021:
#Trump Administration Rushes to Trade Sacred #OakFlat to #RioTinto for Massive #Arizona #CopperMine
TUCSON, Ariz.— "The U.S. Forest Service has announced it will release a final version of its environmental analysis of the proposed #ResolutionCopper Project and Land Exchange on Jan. 15, a year ahead of schedule. The proposed #mine site is on #Apache sacred ground in the #TontoNationalForest in central Arizona.
"'Oak Flat is far too important to be sacrificed for corporate profit,' said Randy Serraglio, a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. 'We can’t let a corrupt president destroy this precious place on his way out the door. We’ll do everything possible to protect Oak Flat.'
"If the final environmental analysis is published, the federal government will have up to 60 days to transfer the land to international mining giant Rio Tinto, which plans to destroy it with a huge copper mine.
"The Oak Flat land exchange is one of several environmentally damaging projects around the United States that the Trump administration is rushing to approve before the president leaves office.
"Forest Service officials have admitted they are 'getting pressure from the highest levels' of the Trump administration to rush the final environmental impact statement to publication. Calendar records obtained by The New York Times show Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross met with Rio Tinto executives at least three times and made a site visit to Oak Flat in October that included a speech to promote the proposed mine. That trip came just a week after the Forest Service announced it was accelerating the timeline for publication of the final environmental analysis by a year.
"'This is the most corrupt presidential administration in modern U.S. history by any measure,' said Serraglio. 'The betrayal of Oak Flat and Native people is typical of the kleptocracy we’ve been watching for four years now. It’s sickening that the Trump administration would commit this kind of cultural genocide for the sake of private profit.”
Background
"Oak Flat has been used for centuries by Apache and other Native people for ceremony, sustenance and habitation, and ceremonies are still conducted there. Several tribes consider it sacred, including the nearby San Carlos Apache Tribe, which has opposed the proposed Resolution Mine for more than 15 years. Oak Flat is also a popular campground and recreation area in the Tonto National Forest with stunning scenery, world-renowned rock climbing, and important habitat for a diverse array of wildlife, including endangered plants, fish, snakes and birds."
#MAGA #ReligiousFreedom #Hypocrisy #SacredSite #SaveOakFlat #IndigenousRights #Apache #LandBack
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via @arizonamirror
If #Hobbs is serious about protecting #groundwater, she must work to close the #mining loophole
by Russ McSpadden
February 12, 2024"In her first State of the State address just over a year ago, Gov. #KatieHobbs was unequivocal about her commitment to tackling one of the state’s greatest challenges: our dwindling #water supply.
“Our groundwater should be used to support #Arizonans, not foreign business interests,” she said in that speech, referring to the Saudi Arabian conglomerate #Fondomonte. Over the past few years, Fondomonte has been pumping unlimited amounts of groundwater in La Paz County for alfalfa crops that it ships to feed cows on the other side of the earth.
"Though the Hobbs administration has already canceled one of Fondomonte’s four leases and says it won’t renew the others when they’re up this month, the problem doesn’t end with Saudi agriculture.
"It’s also mining companies that take advantage of loopholes in the state’s water laws to maximize profit at the expense of Arizonans — including mining giants #RioTinto and# BHP.
"Because of intense pressure from #lobbyists, when lawmakers adopted the much-heralded #ArizonaGroundwaterManagementAct in 1980 they exempted #mines from groundwater regulation, even when located in #ActiveManagement Areas — state-designated areas where groundwater pumping is controlled. That means that mines can pump unlimited amounts of water without paying the state a dime.
"This exemption was controversial in 1980. Today it’s existentially dangerous.
#ResolutionCopper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto and BHP, is a perfect example. Their proposed mine at #OakFlat — about 70 miles east of #Phoenix in the #TontoNationalForest and within the Phoenix Active Management Area — would pump 250 billion gallons of desert groundwater over the life of the project.
"That’s 17 million gallons of water every day for four decades.
"Under current water prices, that equates to $404 million worth of groundwater that Resolution Copper will get for free. Arizona won’t see a cent for it. And it’s more than likely that the copper ore from Oak Flat will be exported to China for smelting, again depriving local communities of economic benefit.
"This limitless pumping would happen even as the #megadrought that has plagued the #AmericanSouthwest for the past two decades is likely to worsen, straining the #ColoradoRiver and #Gila rivers even more and making us all more reliant on groundwater aquifers.
"If left intact, the mining loophole will facilitate construction of Resolution’s massive mine. The extreme water pumping from the #EastSaltRiverValley will lead to groundwater depletion and subsidence, threatening to deplete wells and damage infrastructure.
"The #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, where I work, has been fighting for decades to stop this mine, and Canadian mining company Hudbay’s disastrous plan to mine for copper in the #SantaRita Mountains south of #Tucson (in the Tucson Active Management Area).
"Both projects would devastate surrounding fragile #ecosystems, pushing endangered species like the #MexicanSpottedOwl closer to the brink of #extinction. They would also destroy sacred #TribalLands and gulp down massive amounts of water when other users are being asked to conserve.
"Handing mines unlimited access to Arizona’s precious desert groundwater would be an injustice to Arizona’s #Tribes and every resident of this state.
"Fortunately, Hobbs has the vision and courage to fight for a secure water future for Arizona. It is time for her to work with legislators to close the mining loophole in Arizona water law and subject mines to the same groundwater pumping limits that apply to other entities within the state’s Active Management Areas.
"We’re hopeful she will work to block #ResolutionCopperMine and other terrible mining projects like #Hudbay’s. At the very least, it’s time for mining giants to pay for the water they use just like the rest of us."
#WaterIsLife #HumanRightsViolations #CulturalGenocide #CopperMining #Mining #CorporateColonialism #EnvironmentalRacism #IndigenousNews #SaveOakFlat #IndigenousRights #Apache
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Indigenous communities lead fight to stop illicit mining in Loreto that is poisoning the water and destroying its forests
Although there have been few studies on levels of contamination in Loreto’s waters, researchers farther south in Peru’s Madre de Dios region have been able to document the widespread and severe impacts of artisanal mining on local livelihoods and the environment.
Corine Vriesendorp, an ecologist at the Field Museum in Chicago and director of its Andes-Amazon programme, says: “Mercury is showing up in the leaves of canopy trees and the bodies of howler monkeys,” adding that the metal “quickly becomes pervasive and has real human-health impacts.”
Vriesendorp believes the proliferation of illegal mining in Nanay shows how complex the situation has become.
“It is in the back yard of Iquitos, which is where the regional government is, and the fact that they have not been able to control it, recognising that it is fundamental for the wellbeing of everyone who lives there, suggests this is a massive challenge,” she says.In Allpahuayo-Mishana national reserve, which MAAP says has also been affected by illegal mining, #Sernanp, Peru’s authority for protected natural areas, has trained park rangers in surveillance and other conservation strategies to prevent illegal mining.
Herman Ruíz Abecasis, the reserve’s director, says:
“We have been supporting joint actions to fight against illegal mining on the Nanay River, providing the necessary support within our institutional reach.”Peru’s melting glaciers bring new harvests – and fears for the future
During an environmental summit in August, Peru’s president, Dina Boluarte, and the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, agreed to protect the Amazon and its Indigenous inhabitants from the climate crisis, ecological devastation and crime.
At the end of the two-day meeting, Amazonian leaders signed the 🔸 Belém Declaration🔸, which includes a commitment to combat illegal mining and strengthen regional and international cooperation. However, critics said the declaration was much weaker than hoped.
“This is a force that is totally beyond what governments are capable of taking on and what local people are taking on,” Vriesendorp says.
“Drugs, arms, timber and other illegal economies in the Amazon tend to be quite connected, and they are run by armed groups and actors. It’s very hard as an individual, whether you are a park guard or community president, to take those things on. We have to attack the root drivers of this demand.”
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#indigenousrights #amazonia #peru #equidor #brazil
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A pattern of government and corporate abuse! Who are they looking out for? Why profit! Don't believe the spin! #Greenwashing is just a PR gimmick!
Power Grab: #Quebec vs. the #Innu Nation
Behind the scenes, Quebec has fought for years to weaken Indigenous authority over their own land. Now that battle is spilling out into the public.
by Christopher Curtis, Mar 13, 2023
"The Innu territory is a sprawling landmass home to a rapidly declining herd of #caribou, some of the best #salmon fishing in North America and a people who’ve thrived there since time immemorial. It also happens to have vast deposits of rare metals and rivers wide enough to power our cities for generations."
#IndigenousNews #IndigenousRights #CulturalGenocide #Hydropower #NaturalResourcesCouncilOfMaine #NRCM #Avangrid #CMP #CleanEnergy #Forests #SaveTheForest #SaveMaineForests #Canada #FirstNations #Maine #QuebecHydro
Read more: https://rover.substack.com/p/power-grab-quebec-vs-the-innu-nation
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From 2020. Don't believe that #QuebecHydro are for preserving nature, or the will of the voters, or respecting #NativeAmerican rights. They are all about making a buck!
Indigenous group launch $4B lawsuit over huge hydro power project
by Marc Montgomery, October 7, 2020
"The #Innu say the project, begun in the late 1960’s and completed in the 1970’s, has flooded a vast area of ancestral lands causing #environmental and #cultural harm to their people.
"In a statement, Innu Grand Chief Etienne Rich said, 'Over 50 years ago, #HydroQuébec and the provincial utility in #Newfoundland and #Labrador now called #NalcorEnergy, through the Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation, stole our land and flooded it in order to take advantage of the enormous hydro potential of the #ChurchillFalls,' adding, 'This project was undertaken without consulting us and without our consent'.
"The Innu leaders said the flooded area of over 5,000 sq/km has covered traditional #BurialGrounds, hunting areas, #caribou migration paths and habitat for wildlife they depend on. They also said there was no #environmental assessment of the mega project, the second largest power generation project in #Canada, and among the biggest in the world."
#IndigenousNews #IndigenousRights #CulturalGenocide #Hydropower #NaturalResourcesCouncilOfMaine #NRCM #Avangrid #CMP #CleanEnergy #Forests #SaveTheForests #SaveMaineForests #Innuit
