News of Note 3/21/25: Standing Rock Statement, Palm Oil Impacts from US Snacks, Indigenous Climate Resilience

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Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairwomen Janet Aklire Statement on the Energy Transfer Lawsuit Against Greenpeace (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe)
“Our Tribe has requested from Energy Transfer and the Corps of Engineers basic documents about pipeline safety, such as the emergency response plan, spill model, HDD drilling logs, test results on shutdown time, etc. Energy Transfer ignored our requests. The Corps of Engineers provided highly-redacted, illegible information. If DAPL is so safe, why the secrecy?”

West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide (The Guardian)
“West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory. [...] More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups have endorsed the call for a boycott, which they say should continue until the people of West Papua are given the right to self-determination.”

Self-Determined: Climate Resilience Is Sacred (Yes! Magazine)
“As we navigate a volatile economic and political environment, our resolve must be clear: Climate justice cannot take a back seat. We cannot abandon the decades of work to create healthier environments, regenerative systems, and economic opportunities in tribal, Indigenous, and rural communities across the country.”

Cultural Survival Quarterly - March 2025 - Resilience Rising: Indigenous Wisdom in Disaster Response and Climate Crisis Management

• Thangmi Community’s Battle Against Landslides in Nepal

• Donoai Mro: Strengthening Indigenous Resilience to Natural Disasters in Bangladesh

• Safeguarding Equilibrium through Cultural Burns

• Resilience Rising: Indigenous Wisdom in the Fight Against Climate Change Disasters

• I Taotao Tåsi (The People of the Sea)

• Sowing the Seeds of Climate Resilience

• The Resilience of the San of the Southern Kalahari: A Spiritual Connection to the Land

• Indigenous Territorial Management Rewritten through Digital Technology

More News

• “We had to move to safety”: Walande’s fight against rising sea levels (National Indigenous Times)

• Officials share strategies to stop spread of illegal miners from Munduruku land (Mongabay)

• Gautemala: Indigenous women mobilized for their right to a full life and for their right to land and territory (La Via Campesina)

• Brazil has 119 indigenous groups in isolation (Agência Brasil)

• Indigenous peoples denounce Pará government for dredging in the Tapajós River (Cenarium)

• Climate Change Threatens Indigenous Communities (Radio Republik Indonesia)
  Indigenous peoples’ rights: The ASEAN paradox (The Jakarta Post)

• Canada-Ecuador free trade agreement threatens Indigenous rights and territories in the Amazon (The Conversation)

• Government of Canada establishes Indigenous-Led Advisory Committee to advance UN Declaration Act implementation (Department of Justice Canada)

• Alaska Natives want the US military to clean up its toxic waste (Grist)

• What happens when Washington runs amok? Ask a Native American (Los Angeles Times)

• Investors swap suits for boots in land restoration success (National Observer)