Indigenous land defenders face rising threats amid global push for critical minerals

Indigenous land defenders face rising threats amid global push for critical minerals

Miguel Guimaraes, a Shipibo-Konibo leader, has spent his life protesting palm oil plantations and other agribusiness ventures exploiting the Amazon rainforest in his homeland of Peru. Last spring, as he attended a United Nations conference on protecting human rights defenders in Chile, masked men broke into his home, stole his belongings and set the place on fire. Guimarares returned days later to find “He will not live” spraypainted on the wall…

Resistance in a time of Repression: An Up-Close-and-Personal Q&A with Nick Tilsen - NDN COLLECTIVE

Nick Tilsen, the founder and CEO of NDN Collective has spent most of his life within Indigenous movements and activism building relationships and community across Turtle Island. He developed NDN Collective to holistically build the power of Indigenous Peoples through capacity building, funding, philanthropy, and storytelling, with the strong conviction  that our best days as Indigenous people are still ahead of us.  Nick is often on the frontlin…

“We still face colonial occupation”: Wet’suwet’en land defender Molly Wickham accepts Canadian Screen Award for “Yintah” - Peace Brigades International-Canada

The film “Yintah” has won the 2025 Canadian Screen Award (CSA) for Best Feature Length Documentary. The acceptance speech by Sleydo’ (Molly Wickham) can be seen here. The Canadian Screen Awards description of the film notes: “Yintah, meaning ‘land’ in the Wet’suwet’en language, tells the story of an Indigenous nation asserting sovereignty. It is the story of the Wet’suwet’en people reoccupying their territory and resisting the construction of mu…