Climate Justice for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Peoples

Climate change is not merely a background of human life, happening independently of the environment, but it is something that participates as an essential existence of human life. We will deepen an understanding of how ecological violence and land theft are not neatly separable from environmental degradation but are in direct correlation with the violence against Indigenous people. Indigenous people are active agents in shaping a prolific relation with the land; as we are an active keystone relative on which entire ecosystems depend. 

In collaboration with Columbia’s Center for Science and Society and the Urban Indigenous Collective, this toolkit:

• Provides clarity on the complexity of the MMIP crisis and analysis of why Indigenous peoples continue to endure disproportionate violence.
• Bridges Indigenous studies and community knowledge to the climate justice movement.
• Serves as an educational resource for Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities to learn about the issue and take action.

This transformative collaboration aims at gaining clarity and exploring strategies to address the relationship between Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP), gender violence, and the dispossession and dispensability of Indigenous lands, and how these interconnected challenges directly interface with Native communities.