Climate Indigenous Affairs
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![A sign with graffiti says protect Tohono O'odham]()
![A sign with graffiti says protect Tohono O'odham]()
A gigantic green energy transmission project will cut through Indigenous lands in the Southwest
After a federal court rejected their lawsuit, tribes are turning to the U.N. for help.
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![A group of people in front of a building. Many of the people are in traditional Indigenous outfits.]()
![A group of people in front of a building. Many of the people are in traditional Indigenous outfits.]()
At UN conference, Indigenous peoples say little has changed after promises made a decade ago
Now, climate change is adding urgency to those pledges.
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![A person in a red baseball cap and draped in a red traditional Maasai cloth walks in the middle of a city street as white clouds of gas billow around him]()
![A person in a red baseball cap and draped in a red traditional Maasai cloth walks in the middle of a city street as white clouds of gas billow around him]()
UN puts spotlight on attacks against Indigenous land defenders
Indigenous peoples around the world are harassed and killed at alarming rates. Will the world act?
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![Collage of two people holding hands with a laurel wreath in the background]()
![Collage of two people holding hands with a laurel wreath in the background]()
Your guide to the 2024 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
This year’s gathering of global Indigenous leaders, activists, and policymakers puts a spotlight on youth.
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![An above-ground section of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline at Michagan's Mackinaw City pump station sits in 2016.]()
![An above-ground section of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline at Michagan's Mackinaw City pump station sits in 2016.]()
DOJ thinks Enbridge Line 5 pipeline is trespassing on tribal lands
But the agency stopped short of telling the company to move.
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![A man sits on a solar panel next to Indigenous teepees.]()
![A man sits on a solar panel next to Indigenous teepees.]()
For a just transition to green energy, tribes need more than money
Advice from an Indigenous researcher: "To go fast, start slow."
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![Man in yellow jacket and yellow hard hat hits earth wtih ax during fire]()
![Man in yellow jacket and yellow hard hat hits earth wtih ax during fire]()
Water from arsenic-laced wells could protect the Pine Ridge reservation from wildfires
“We’re looking to deal with extended drought and the increasing intensity of wildfires.”
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Indigenous peoples’ climate labor benefits everyone. Should it be paid?
“I don’t think money is going to solve it. But I also feel like we do have a responsibility to ensure that we are taking care of the people who are working for all of us.”
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![burned out trees and empty lots of ash in the wake of a wildfire by the ocean]()
![burned out trees and empty lots of ash in the wake of a wildfire by the ocean]()
Indigenous Pacific wildfire survivors on Maui can finally get FEMA help
Three Pacific nations signed treaties with the U.S. Then Congress changed the rules.
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![International flags fly on poles in front of United Nations building.]()
![International flags fly on poles in front of United Nations building.]()
IPLC: The acronym that is keeping Indigenous advocates up at night
Native leaders say equating "Indigenous peoples" and "local communities" threatens hard-won treaty rights.
