Indigenous Peoples Integral to Forest Health Worldwide: Report

Alex Kirby, Climate News
4/28/16
The world’s tropical forests are a key part of slowing climate change, and ensuring indigenous peoples have land rights is essential to protecting them, US-based researchers say...

Paris Agreement 1.5° C Climate Limit Denounced by Indigenous as the Red Line to Catastrophe

Terri Hansen
4/23/16
An alliance of indigenous and global and U.S. grassroots leaders commemorated Earth Day by denouncing the historic Paris Agreement for its silence on fossil fuel...

Calling Youth to Action: Earth Guardians at Paris COP21 [Video]

ICTMN Staff
1/15/16
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” This is the motto of Earth Guardians , a youth environmental and activist group founded by self-described indigenous environmental eco-hip...

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez: Teen Hip-Hop Activist Sees Global Youth Movement Afoot

Dominique Godrèche
1/8/16
Xiuhtezcatl received his Nahuatl name through his Elders, in the Mexican Mexica tradition of his father...

Ta’kaiya Blaney at COP21: Heritage, Reconciliation and Environmental Redemption Are All One

Dominique Godrèche
1/8/16
Ta’Kaiya, whose very name means “Special Water,” grew up in Vancouver, raised by her mother, a teacher, and her father, a social worker for Squamish youth...

Watch Lummi Climate Film ‘Huli Ta Tum Uhw: The Earth is Alive’ Online

ICTMN Staff
12/23/15
Huli Ta Tum Uhw: The Earth is Alive , the documentary by a Lummi producer that was presented by a delegation of 17 Lummi youth and adults at the 2015 United Nations climate change ...

Climate Change and the Seventh Generation: Navajo Environmentalist Ann Marie Chischilly at COP21

Dominique Godrèche
12/19/15
The huge Native presence at the United Nations COP 21 climate talks in Paris was in line with the intimate relationship that these diverse cultures have with the environment...

The Week That Was: The Big Stories in Indian Country, December 13, 2015

ICTMN Staff
12/14/15
An icon walks on, a disappearance has a tragic ending, and a top indigenous federal official announces his departure. That and more saturated the news in Indian country last week...

Global Climate Agreement Passes Over Issues Critical to Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus

Terri Hansen
12/14/15
The global Paris agreement struck by nearly 200 countries on December 12 is heralded as the first climate agreement to commit all countries to cut carbon emissions...

Equator Prizes Put Heroic Indigenous Enterprises on the Map

DOMINIQUE GODRÈCHE
12/10/15
A million acres of traditional land regained. A successful fight against a dam project that would have decimated sacred territory...

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