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Activists hold up torches during a rally as they commemorate slain indigenous peoples and environmental defenders on November 10, 2022 in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines. (Getty Images / Ezra Acayan / Stringer)

Indigenous defenders face rising threats

Miacel Spotted Elk - Grist
A view of the famous 'Morant's Curve' offering a beautiful view of the frozen Bow River and the Canadian Pacific Railway at Banff National park near Lake Louise, Canada, late on December 06, 2013. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Mining violates rights of nature

Joseph Winters, Taylar Dawn Stagner - Grist
Bolivia, La Paz: Women in typical costumes distribute coca leaves on coca chewing day. Photo: Radoslaw Czajkowski/dpa (Photo by Radoslaw Czajkowski/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Groups demand: "decolonize" coca leaves

Niko Vorobyov
People attend a protest criticizing the government for its policies toward the Indigenous Maori population which they say are racist policies and undermine a treaty that protects their Indigenous rights, outside the New Zealand parliament in Wellington on May 30, 2024. (DAVE LINTOTT/AFP via Getty Images)

NZ anti-Māori rights bill faces backlash

Griffin Eckstein
People attend the burial of Colombian 14-year-old environmental activist Breiner David Cucuname, who was shot dead during a rural security patrol on January 14, 2022, in the indigenous community of Las Delicias, Buenos Aires municipality, in the Colombian southwestern Cauca Department, on January 17 , 2022. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Nearly 200 killed protecting environment

Taylar Dawn Stagner - Grist
The Yurok Tribe offers Redwood Yurok canoe tours on the Klamath River. The canoe, paddles and stools are all hand crafted by tribal members. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Yurok tribe regains their old land

Matthew Rozsa
Water protectors join hands in prayer at the end of the day's protest as police line the hill at Standing Rock on Nov. 24, 2016, during an ongoing dispute over the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

FBI sent informants to Standing Rock

Alleen Brown - Grist
Wind turbines at sunset in Oklahoma. (Ryan McGinnis / Getty Images)

Indigenous rights and energy transitions

Anita Hofschneider - Grist
Joseph John Jr. and his son Jeremiah John haul in nets while salmon fishing on July 1, 2015 in Newtok, Alaska. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Battle over Alaska Native fishing rights

Max Graham - Grist
Sámi Man Pulling Reindeer on Sleigh Through Snow (Getty Images/Atlantide Phototravel)

Norway to pay Sámi reindeer herders

Elisabeth Rasmussen - Grist
A person watches a shipping vessel from a mound of ice and snow on the shore of Lake Superior as the sun rises in Duluth, Minnesota, on April 13, 2023. (STEPHEN MATUREN/AFP via Getty Images)

60 Indigenous nations oppose pipeline

Anita Hofschneider - Grist
Members of the Mursi tribe, an agro-pastoralist tribe in southwestern Ethiopia are seen on October 4, 2019 in the Lower Omo Valley. (MICHAEL TEWELDE/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Indigenous forest stewards are best

Maria Parazo Rose - Grist
The president of the Sami Parliament, Silje Karine Muotka (2R) in traditional outfit delivers a speech in front of activists from the "Nature and Youth" and "Norwegian Samirs Riksforbund Nuorat" as they were blocking the Ministery of finances to protest against wind turbines built on land traditionally used to her reindeer, in Oslo, on March 2, 2023. (OLIVIER MORIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Indigenous youth oppose energy project

Elisabeth Rasmussen - Grist
Indigenous people react as they watch a broadcast of the 'Temporal Framework' trial on a screen installed in front of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) in Brasilia, Brazil on September 21, 2023. (Mateus Bonomi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Brazil Court upholds Indigenous rights

Lyric Aquino - Grist
Alessandra Sampaio (C), widow of British journalist Dom Phillips, participates in a demonstration in tribute to Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, murdered while on a reporting mission in the Amazon rainforest one year ago, at the Copacabana neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 5, 2023. (MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Land defenders killed every two days

Lyric Aquino - Grist
Linda Noneo's work as a community health representative for her tribe in Nevada is focused on providing transportation to health care appointments for Fallon Paiute-Shoshone members. (JAZMIN OROZCO RODRIGUEZ/KFF HEALTH NEWS)

Nevada paying tribal workers better

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez - KFF Health News
US President Joe Biden (C) gestures after signing a proclamation to designate Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, at Red Butte Airfield, 25 miles (40kms) south of Tusayan, Arizona, on August 8, 2023. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden protects Grand Canyon from mining

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The Grassy Narrows First Nations Reserve has been plagued by the neurotoxin for over 50 years after a pulp and paper company dumped 10 tonnes of mercury into the Wabigoon River, contaminating the fish that is a staple to their community. (Randy Risling/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Mercury poisoning Indigenous community

Anita Hofschneider - Grist
Psychedelics conference presentation, showing various stone mushrooms (Photo by Rae Hodge)

Science and corporadelics in Colorado

Rae Hodge
An aerial photo taken on February 14, 2023 shows the Waiohiki bridge and surrounds inundated by the Tutaekuri River after Cyclone Gabrielle made landfall near the city of Napier. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Indigenous leaders ask for relief

Joseph Lee - Grist
FILE - This Sept. 29, 2016, file photo, shows a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline under construction near the town of St. Anthony in Morton County, N.D. The Army has notified Congress Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, that it will allow the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline to cross under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota, completing the four-state project to move North Dakota oil to Illinois. The Army intends to allow the crossing under Lake Oahe as early as Wednesday, Feb. 8. The crossing is the final big chunk of work on the pipeline. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File) (AP)

The next Standing Rock in Canada?

Leah Temper - The Conversation
((AP Photo/Ben Margot))

Big banks flunk their own test

Lindsey Allen - Independent Media Institute
Protecting Mother Earth conference attendees. (Ayşe Gürsöz / Independent Media Institute)

Climate action: Defend indigenous rights

Jade Begay, Ayşe Gürsöz - Independent Media Institute
(Getty/Robyn Beck)

Eco-activists who died for our planet

Mary Mazzoni - Alternet
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