Global Action & Indigenous Leadership
A situation where multiple, distinct crises exist to create more severe issues is called what?
Polycrisis
An Indigenous Leader who advocates for water rights and bridges traditional knowledge with engineering to create long-term sustainable solutions
Who is Brook Thompson
This ancient New Zealand tree stands 45 meters tall, is over 2,000 years old, and is named after the Māori god of forests and birds.
What is Tāne Mahuta?
This Canadian city hosted COP15, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference.
What is Montreal?
This runner dances at boundaries to symbolize communal unity and channel women’s energy at home.
Who is the waylaka?
This everyday social factor, when frayed, weakens climate response (and climate impacts), in turn, fray it even more.
What is social connection (or its erosion/disconnection)?
At the 2023 RBC Annual General Meeting, this Indigenous nation’s leaders spoke out against the bank’s violation of their lands and rights.
Who are the Wet’suwet’en Nation?
Who said this: Because if you build something on unsustainability, then it will crash at one point, and we are at that point when ecosystems are crashing and the whole global climate is starting to collapse
Aslak Holmberg
This global framework calls on corporations and governments to respect Indigenous sovereignty and protect land, culture, and resources.
What is the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)?
This agreement, known as the SINAA Project Finance for Permanence, was made between the Government of Canada and this Inuit organization.
What is the Qikiqtani Inuit Association?
US-based, this nonprofit helps record and archive San songs and dances to preserve culture.
What is the Tribal Trust Foundation (TTF)?
Name the policy + public-health combo that makes “connection as infrastructure” operational: Canada’s 2024–evaluated program funding Indigenous-led stewardship, and the 2025 report that elevates connection to a public-health priority.
What are the Indigenous Guardians Initiative and the WHO Commission on Social Connection?