The Protection of the Sacred Headwaters:

Respect for Indigenous Rights or Neo-colonial

Subversion?

“Our very essence and worldview is threatened by

multinational industries such as mining, oil, gas,

lumber, and water”

“The land is a physical

representation of our spirituality.”

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