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May 4, 2025

Gwich'in, Okinawa and Morocco: Indigenous Women, Voices in Struggle, at U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues


Quannah Chasing Horse, U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issuess 2025, Screenshot by Censored News

Gwich'in, Okinawa and Morocco: Indigenous Women, Voices in Struggle, at United Nations Permanent Forum

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 4, 2025

NEW YORK -- It is the sacred place where life begins, and now the U.S. has opened it to leasing for oil and gas drilling, Quannah Chasing Horse of the Gwich'in Steering Committee, told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

As matriarchs, Indigenous women play an essential role in the community, and are the life-givers and defenders of the earth.