Indigenous communities around the globe continue their struggles for sovereignty and rights to their ancestral lands. The photos on this website document a number of these struggles. They include the efforts of the Abenaki in Vermont in the early 1990s to win official State recognition – struggles by the Cree and Inuit people to stop the flooding of their lands by massive dam projects in northern Quebec – efforts by the Mayangna and Miskito peoples in Atlantic Nicaragua to stop illegal logging and exploitation of their lands – the powerful campaign by Zapatista and other communities in the Lacandon Jungle of Chiapas, Mexico to regain control of their territories – Ayoreo People of the Chaco forest, forcibly removed from their lands in now confined in Displacement Camps and ongoing campaigns by Indigenous Peoples around the world to protect their lands and communities from the impacts of climate change.

Studies have identified the lands of Indigenous Peoples and forest dependent communities to be some of the most intact and biodiverse lands remaining on the planet. Many of these lands are now being targeted for “resources” that can be shipped to developed countries or for false solutions to climate change such as carbon offset schemes.

Other studies have confirmed that Indigenous Peoples are the best stewards of the land due to their relationship to the Earth and their cosmovision beliefs.