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An introductory chapter centering Indigenous perspectives and leadership

 

 | Journal of Global Indigeneity

Shannon Rivers, member of the Akimel O鈥檕tham people, is an Indigenous Peoples Human Rights activist. Here he speaks on Indigenous movements and the fight for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Author: Shannon Rivers, published 2015.

 

  • Native American activist Winona LaDuke speaking on a newscast next to a photo of Line 3 Pipeline workers and protestors

    鈥淥ver 100 water protectors were arrested Monday in northern Minnesota in the largest act of civil disobedience to date to halt the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline.鈥 [19:00]

     

  • Chief Oren Lyons speaks with other forum attendees listening behind

    鈥淐hief Oren Lyons speaks about climate change at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the UN Headquarters in 2007.鈥 This address given over a decade ago still sends a powerful message. 鈥Value change for survival鈥 You鈥檙e either going to change your values, or you鈥檙e not going to survive.鈥欌赌 [09:56]

     

| Jacobin

鈥淣ick Estes (Kul Wicasa) is a cofounder of The Red Nation and is currently the American Democracy Fellow at Harvard University鈥檚 Charles Warren Center. The Green New Deal can connect every struggle to climate change. A Red Deal can build on those connections, tying Indigenous liberation to the fight to save the planet.鈥 Author: 

 

  • Artists Supaman and Acosia Red Elk dancing outside with a sunset in the background

    Native / Hip Hop song by Christopher Takes The Gun Parrish, aka Supaman, with Acosia Red Elk. Supaman is a member of Apsaalooke Nation who makes his home on the Crow reservation in Montana. 鈥淲hy is one man rich and another man poor?...鈥 [04:12]

  • Silhouette of singer, Supaman, overlayed with the image of an Indigenous ancestor

    Native / Hip Hop song by Christopher Takes The Gun Parrish, aka Supaman, feat. PASSIONATE MC. 鈥淭oday we have life because of water鈥︹ [03:41]

  • Indigenous climate activist Xiuhtezcatl stands at a podium addressing the United Nations

    鈥淩emarks by Xiuhtezcatl, Indigenous climate activist and Youth Director of Earth Guardians at the opening segment of the High-level event of the United Nations General Assembly on Climate Change.鈥 This video was featured in tUrn Spring 2020. June 29, 2015 [09:31]

 | Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone speaks 鈥渢o Martinez about young people fighting climate change, his Aztec heritage and dancing to Kendrick Lamar.鈥 Author: , published July 13, 2015

 

  • Close-up of speaker Chase Iron Eyes presenting on stage at the TEDx event

    鈥淐hase Iron Eyes outlines the importance of getting involved to secure America's water resources, and the harsh realities of violent, unethical treatment of US Citizens by the government.鈥 Chase Iron Eyes was featured in tUrn Fall 2019. January 23, 2017 [18:17]

 | Climate One

This podcast addresses stolen land, ecocolonialism, settler-colonial mentality, sustainable self determination, and more. 鈥淐limate change isn't just about protecting the natural world; it鈥檚 also about protecting our culture and who we are because we've resisted against so many colonial forces for so long.鈥 鈥揓ulia Fay Bernal [56:01]

  • Samwel Nangiria speaks on a video call with interviewer Kristy Drutman

    鈥淓xplore how conservation can actually harm communities by observing a case study happening to the Indigenous Maasai in Tanzania. 鈥榃hat is happening on the ground is completely different from what the researchers, and particularly from West, are talking about.鈥欌赌 鈥揝amwel Nangiria [43:06]

 

鈥淏usiness as usual is over. Carbon is over. Oil is over.
We better find something else. We better find some equity.鈥
鈥 Chief Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation

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