SupplyChainBrain published “Cleaner Automotive Supply Chains Start with Indigenous Peoples’ Consent” authored by Nalori Chakma, Tallgrass Institute and Bryan Bixcul, SIRGE Coalition. The op-ed examines how automakers “identify, assess and address impacts on Indigenous Peoples remains an area of risk that is inconsistently understood and managed across the industry.”

Highlights from our 2026 AGM report, discussion on AI impacts, energy transition minerals intervention and more. Plus opportunities to connect this fall.

Trends and Tools to Advance Indigenous Peoples’ Rights through Shareholder Proposals, examines how investors can effectively hold a high watermark for Indigenous Peoples’ rights through shareholder proposals given the current ecosystem in both Canada and the United States.

Highlights from the 19th Session of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, engagement opportunities, FPIC working group update, upcoming Climate Week NYC sessions among other upcoming events, recently released resources, and news items of interest.

Tallgrass Institute’s Indigenous Peoples and the 2026 AGM Season reports that investors filed four shareholder proposals in 2026 regarding the rights of Indigenous Peoples, involving companies in the banking, mining, energy, and automotive sectors in the U.S. and Canada.

Tallgrass Institute’s 2025-2026 impact report highlights impact across programming and spotlights key projects and takeaways from among dozens of engagements, trainings, and activities. “The most perennial request from Indigenous Peoples, crossing sectors and issues, is for respect for full self-determination,” notes the report.

Indigenous Peoples’ collective priorities for transitioning away from fossil fuels, the state of tribal clean energy development and related Indigenous-led fund, UN Business & Human Rights report on private sector responsibilities to FPIC, and more.

The vision of an economy that revolves around relationship, reciprocity, and respect was not lost to history, but we must take steps to bring these assumptions forward as we create the conditions for shared prosperity everywhere. Thank you for sharing in this work with us.

Highlights from presentations about Sigma Lithium and Jequitinhonha Valley impacts, the recent U.S. Arctic Refuge oil and gas lease sale, and the 2026 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, plus upcoming events, recently released resources, and news items of interest.

Our investor brief for the 2026 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues highlights significant implications for the financial sector in relation to Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination, artificial intelligence (AI) and technology, financing for decarbonization, conservation, and the energy transition, and more.

IIPWG’s May newsletter highlights presentations Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact from the Amazon Conservation Team and escalating threats to the Porcupine Caribou Herd calving grounds from the Gwich’in Steering Committee, as well as further updates, upcoming events, recently released resources, and news items of interest.

Tallgrass Institute released Investor Brief: Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact, providing context and resources to help understanding how accelerating extractive industry activity the world over puts Indigenous Peoples in isolation and initial contact (IPIIC) at “increased risk of territory and culture loss, violence, and genocide.”

Batani Foundation, SIRGE Coalition, and Tallgrass Institute delivered recommendations to strengthen Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in IFC Performance Standard 1 (PS1). For projects affecting Indigenous Peoples, PS1 is important because it helps determine whether all Performance Standards relevant for them will be triggered or not.

Grist reported on a new United Nations study about impacts to Indigenous Peoples from the AI technologies and infrastructure. The study, Indigenous Peoples and artificial intelligence was led by Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, a former chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, where it was introduced this week.

Indigenous Peoples’ recommendations to strengthen IFC standards, impacts from development projects after U.S. land protection rollbacks, summary of Indigenous Peoples’ input to from Consolidated Mining Standard Initiative consultations, highlights from week one of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and more. Plus upcoming events, recently released resources, and news items of interest.

Indigenous-led organizations delivered a joint submission to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) with recommendations to strengthen Performance Standard 7 - Indigenous Peoples (PS7) and its interaction with Performance Standard 5 - Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement (PS5). “The review of PS7 and PS5 comes at a moment when IFC-financed projects are increasingly intersecting with Indigenous Peoples’ lands and territories, particularly in the context of transition minerals and strategic supply chains,” says the letter.

As flora breaks through the soil in the Northern Hemisphere, the Tallgrass Team has been around the globe. We participated in a knowledge exchange in Indonesia calling for awareness, respect, and protection of Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation. Tallgrass is in the room moving international corporate standards towards better – from IFC investment policies, to financial institutions’ understanding of FPIC, to incremental but promising progress by global automakers.