Opinion: Protecting indigenous lands protects the environment. Trump and Bolsonaro threaten both.
The sun sets over Bears Ears National Monument seen from the Moki Dugway in June 2017 north of Mexican Hat, Utah. By Deb Haaland and Joênia Wapichana March 18 at 1:48 PM Deb Haaland is an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo people and a Democrat representing New Mexico’s 1st District in the House of Representatives. Joênia Wapichana is a member of the Wapichana indigenous people from the northern Brazilian Amazon and represents Roraima in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies.
Yet indigenous environmental defenders face tremendous risks, encountering pushback and even criminalization for simply protecting critical family resources. We saw it in Standing Rock, when police had confrontations with peaceful protesters. We see it now in Brazil, which is the deadliest country for environmental defenders in the world, with intimidation and lethal violence falling heavily on indigenous peoples and land rights activists.
More recently, Bolsonaro has singled out Raposa Serra do Sol and threatened to review its boundaries to favor powerful special interests, particularly mining. His government has further threatened to open indigenous territories to mining, commercial agriculture and damaging infrastructure projects, even citing dubious claims of national security to forgo our right to consultation.
We are proud to be part of an international sisterhood of indigenous women who provide leadership on these issues, first as organizers and now as members of Congress. From our new perspectives as legislators, we are working to oppose rollbacks and propose policies to protect indigenous rights and the environment.
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