#IndigenousRising: Tom BK Goldtooth sings in Paris at the #COP21 floatilla action
Channel: Desiree Kane
Date: 2015-12-14

Activists Call for Inclusion of Rights of Indigenous Peoples in UN Climate Agreement

On Sunday, Indigenous leaders, activists, and their allies gathered along the banks of Bassin de la Villette, Paris’s largest man-made lake, as 25 Indigenous activists from North and South America formed a canoe flotilla on the lake. Renowned Indigenous North American climate activists from the Ponca Nation in Oklahoma to the Tla'Amin First Nation from British Columbia to Lummi Nation youth from Washington State, among others, participated in the event.

Read the full details here: http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/activists_call_for_inclusion_of_indigenous_rights_in_un_climate_agreement/