Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change

American Indian Airwaves

”United Nation Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 22nd Session: 17-28 April 2023 Highlights on Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach” Indigenous peoples are approximately 5% of the world’s population, manage at least 25% of the world’s land surfaces, 40% of the world’s protected areas, and steward about 80% of the world’s biodiversity. Each year Indigenous peoples from scores of different nations and cultures across Mother Earth convene at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in the settler colonial city, state, and nation-state New York City, New York, United States. Here, Indigenous peoples express their grievances at the most well-known international political body (i.e., the United Nations) even though after 100 years of existence between the League of Nations and the United Nations, Indigenous peoples’ rights continue to be ignored, violated, and threatened. The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) is a high- level advisory body to the Economic and Social Council. The Forum was established on 28 July 2000 by resolution 2000/22, with the mandate to deal with indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights. On today’s program we hear testimonies from Indigenous peoples throughout Turtle Island regarding a wide range of struggles and issues. The Indigenous testimonies are from the April 18th and April 19th, 2023, sessions only. Revealing, powerful, and shameful for the nation-states across Mother Earth knowingly, willfully, and complicitly are committing acts of genocides. The voices of Indigenous peoples and organizations, along with the intervention by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples are highlighted and can be heard throughout the hour. If you like what you hear, then support KPFK (www.kpfk.org) and pick the up the book, Pagans in the Promise Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery for $100:00 and/or the DVD: The Doctrine of Discovery, Unmasking The Domination Code (2014) dir. Sheldon Wolfchild, for $100.00. Guests: • Terry Rambler, Chairman of the San Carlos Apache – Protecting Chi'chil Biłdagoteel (Oak Flat). • Sami Youth Representative, Suoma Sámi Nuorat (Finland, Sweden, and Norway) on the Greenwashing the Green Economy and Protecting Mother Earth. • Francisco Cali Tzay, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Intervention. Report on the Intervention of Protecting Mother Earth. English Translation. • Representative of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus on Protecting Mother Earth, Women, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Survivance, more. • Representative of Society of Threatened Peoples on the Mongolian Genocide committed by the Chinese Government. • Nathan Phillips (Omaha Nation) on Language, Freedom for Leonard Peltier, Incarceration and Human Rights Violations, Survivance, and Survivance. • Delegation, Crimean Tartar, from the Crimean Tartar Resource Center on the Crimean Genocide committed by Russia. • Ryukyuan delegation on the United States militarization of the surrounding southern Japanese prefectures constructing military bases, poisoning lands, illegally removing Indigenous ancestors, and more. • Rodrigo Eduardo Paillalef (Puma Mapuche Nation) on Protecting Cultures, Intellectual Property Rights, and the 100-year legacy of the League of Nations and the United Nations denying Indigenous peoples and nations their rights. • Addie Parker, Shoshone-Paiute Shoshone of the Duck Valley Nation (NV), the “Green Gold Rush” and Lithium companies’ expansion, the extractive industries, and Protecting Traditional Homelands. American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.