Indigenous Listening

“Humanity is at the edge of an abyss.” António Guterres, UN secretary general 

Can we halt what many scientists call the beginning of the Sixth Mass Extinction? To answer this question, we must now look to the communities that colonisers sought to “civilise”. 

Indigenous Communities represent 5% of the global population but their land contains 80% of biodiversity. The language we use to describe our world informs our relation to it. Over and over again, indigenous words reveal a cosmology that marks nature as sacred and our relationship with it as reciprocal, as seen here in these Indigenous Listening Sessions, which were organised for COP26: the Real Climate Leaders, and with HRH (now King) Charles. Here we present the recordings of both sessions.

INDIGENOUS LISTENING SESSION

with Chief Ninawa Huni Kuin, Agnes Leina, Mindahi Bastida, Cristiane Julião Pankararu, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Tom BK Goldtooth, Selina Leem

WORLD INDIGENOUS LEADERS IN DIALOGUE

with King Charles, Sonia Guajajara, Gregorio Diaz Mirabal, Tom BK Goldtooth, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz