Efforts to Combat Climate Change Often Exclude Indigenous People – and They May Not Have Any Recourse

Efforts to combat climate change often exclude Indigenous people – and they may not have any recourse

by Buket Altınçelep, UMass Boston Imagine living in the same forest as your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and all your ancestors as far back in time as stories can tell, and depending on the forest for food, shelter, recreation and education. Imagine, then, that the forest depends on you, too, because you and your people have … Continue reading Efforts to combat climate change often exclude Indigenous people – and they may not have a…

Indigenous women already have the climate solutions

This article Indigenous women already have the climate solutions was originally published by Waging Nonviolence. “I didn’t enter activism through theory,” explained activist Hillary Semeyan Lenantoiye in an email. “I entered through lived experience.”   When Lenantoiye was growing up in northern Kenya’s Samburu County, the rain became less and less frequent. The river ran dry and the livestock, the lifeblood of her Indigenous pastoralist communi…