By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)
Indigenous Peoples’ collective closing statement at COP30, delivered by Diana Chavez Vargas of Ecuador.
Thank you, Chair,
The Amazon, our home is the next global oil frontier.
Indigenous Peoples are under attack.
We face colonial militarization of our territories, where states and corporations trade our lives for fossil fuels, transition minerals, and large-scale renewables.
We stand in solidarity with our Amazonian relatives and condemn the killing of land defenders. This was mirrored by the heavy militarization of this COP.
By Francesco Torri
“We were raised as warriors. It’s part of our culture, but there has been too much bloodshed. Now, we fight for peace,” says Simonpeter, a young ex-combatant from the Jie ethnic group, known as Karachuna in the local language.
The Xikrin Peoples face severe humanitarian and environmental crises as Vale’s nickel and other metal mining contaminates their rivers, harms their health, and destroys their ancestral territory, endangering their cultural survival and the environmental integrity of the region. The negative impacts on the health of the Xikrin people are so severe that some studies show that 98% of the communities in the Cateté lands are seriously contaminated.
By Chenae Bullock (Shinnecock)
By Daniel Salvador Chindoy Muchavisoy (CS Intern)
By Tia-Alexi Roberts, Narragansett (CS Staff)
"As manifestações Indígenas na COP30 não são violações de segurança. Os Povos Indígenas estão exercendo seus direitos humanos fundamentais e expressando frustração pela falta de acesso aos espaços onde são tomadas decisões que os impactam de forma desproporcional." -- Aimee Roberson (Choctaw e Chickasaw), Diretora Executiva da Cultural Survival
“The Indigenous demonstrations at COP30 are not security breaches. Indigenous Peoples are exercising their fundamental human rights, and expressing frustration due to a lack of access to spaces where decisions are made that disproportionately impact them.” --Aimee Roberson (Choctaw and Chickasaw), Cultural Survival Executive Director
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.