Strong communities, healthy biomes and water are intrinsically linked. The strength and organized defense of Indigenous women is at its heart.
Indigenous Women at the Frontlines. Bearers of Life. Fierce Protectors of the Sacred.
Indigenous Women at the Frontlines. Bearers of Life. Fierce Protectors of the Sacred.
THE Reality
Indigenous women and girls carry the burnt of land extraction, violence that is perpetrated both against the land and their bodies.
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Indigenous women are leading transformative movements and cultural defense.
Indigenous women have spearheaded major campaigns and communications initiatives as storytellers and leaders, giving birth to a vision of communications collectives, leading women-led Indigenous guards for territorial protection, and founded organizations that strive to bring forward their agency in telling stories in their own voice and protecting culture and life ways that live in reciprocity with all living beings.
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Ancestral wisdom has since time immemorial connected them to the magnitude of their territories in all its beauty and complexity, including mapping of the impact of mega projects– bringing solutions that have yet to be adopted by local governments and global decision making spaces. Technology has since been key to their efforts and advocacy.
Ancestral wisdom and modern tools shape solutions for protecting their territories.
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Women are redefining emerging technologies for land defense and storytelling.
Historically new technologies have been in the hands of few, mainly conceived as tools that lay in the hands of men. The usage of drones can be democratized as we share knowledge with a gendered lens and replicate those experiences in vast territories. By centering women in this role, we can inspire a new generation of storytellers who have the capacity to use this technology to strengthen their ancestral ways of territorial defense, mapping, and memory keeping.
In times of high repression against independent and free media, it is essential to continue supporting the training of new leaderships and skills that allow autonomy in documentation and reduce barriers to sharing sensitive and important content for communities in their own voices.
Strengthening local media skills safeguards community voices under repression.
Collective Solutions
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Ongoing support and direct funding for Indigenous women and girls to fund their solutions and responses to threats in their territories.
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Inspire women and girls to continue to grow in their skills as storytellers and Earth protectors in a collective way, who then can replicate skillshares and knowledge for strengthening their agency and organized defense.
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Nurture and connect a network of female drone users within Indigenous-led media/communications collectives to amplify stories across different biomes and nations.
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Build power with women and girls from multiple territories, come together to celebrate and strengthen a collective vision of what is possible.
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Reduce the barriers to sustained leadership and access to technology, training, and decision making power in local and global stages.
Partners On The Ground
In October/November Seeding Sovereignty joined a historic Indigenous delegation that traveled from the Ecuadorian Andes to Belém, Brazil by river. After nearly a month and more than 3,000 kilometers traveled, the Yaku Mama Amazon Flotilla carried a unified call from Amazonian and allied territories to COP30: having a seat at the negotiating table, demanding protection for defenders, ending extractivism on Indigenous lands, and uplifting the role of Indigenous women as life protectors.
We journeyed with 60+ leaders from Latin America and Indonesia, meeting with dozens of riverine communities in Ecuador, Perú, Colombia, and Brazil. Along the way, we gathered stories of resistance and renewal — witnessing the frontlines of oil drilling, illegal mining, and deforestation, while amplifying community-led solutions rooted in ancestral knowledge and ecological stewardship. This voyage reimagines the colonial route of conquest as one of connection, resistance, and climate justice: a movement carrying the heart of the forest directly to the negotiating tables of COP30.
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