Statements

Message from White Eagle, Hopi Indigenous, 2020

Declaration for the Protection of the Amazon Sacred Headwaters, Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative, 2019

VI Arctic Leaders’ Summit Declaration, 2019

Declaration of the Alliance of Guardians and Children of Mother Earth, 2015

Indigenous Elders and Medicine Peoples Council Statement, COP21, Paris, 2015

Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, Cochabamba World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, 2010

The Mystic Lake Declaration: Indigenous Perspectives and Solutions, 2009

The Anchorage Declaration, Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change, Indigenous Environment Network, 2009

Message from Chief Arvol Looking Horse of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nation, 2006

Indigenous activist Daiara Tukano of Brazil speaks to press during a demonstration against the slow pace of climate negotiations at COP 25.; Shutterstock/Chris Trinh

Header Image: Oak Flat is a sacred Apache site on which the US government plans to build copper mines. Apache Stronghold is a nonprofit organization battling continued colonization, Phoenix, AZ, 2021; Rosemarie Mosteller/Shutterstock