As the oil and gas pipeline boom crosses the United States and Canada, more Indigenous women have disappeared.
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Grandmothers Mona Polacca and Maria Alice Freire from the The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers offer blessings and songs for Water, the World Water Law and World Water Year 2021.
Liz Ogbu is an architect who works on spatial justice: the idea that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources and services is a human right.
Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development renewable energy and food systems.
Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy and food systems.
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Jose Stevens interviews 2018 Eagle Feather Recipient, Mona Polacca.
Petra Brussee interviews M.S.W. Mona Polacca representing the International Council of 13 indigenous grandmothers at the multi-stakeholder dialogue on water in the post-2015 agenda in the Peace Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands. 21 March 2012.
This is a series of video excerpts from Grandmother Mona Polacca Blue Water., on the Next Seven Generations, the responsibilities of both Elders & Youth and how to proceed into the future.
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This video is an excerpt from the upcoming documentary ECO WARRIORS, which is a film about the issue of labeling environmental activists as 'terrorists'.
Grandmother Mona Polacca believes that her origins are as important as her name, Polacca, which means butterfly in the Hopi language. On her father's side, she a Hopi-Tewa from the Sun and the Tobacco Clans. It was her paternal grandfather who named her.