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Nina Gualinga (credit Santiago Cornejo) & Nina Berglund (credit Nolan Berglund)

06/01/2020 GMT

Young, indigenous and female

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What are the greatest threats facing indigenous women?

Why does maintaining tribal traditions matter to these women? Kim Chakanetsa talks to two indigenous activists from Ecuador and the US about the lengths they are going to to protect their way of life from external threats.

Nina Gualinga is a leader of the Kichwa community of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Her people's lands cover more than 333,000 acres, mostly made up of pristine forest. Because her mother is from Sarayaku and her father is from Sweden, Nina considers herself as the bridge between two worlds, and is actively involved in defending Amazonian indigenous rights and territories. 

One of Nina Berglund's Native American names is Northern Lights Woman.  She is a 20-year-old Northern Cheyenne and Oglala Lakota woman from Minnesota.  Nina has gone to court to try and stop a replacement oil pipeline running through more than 40 wild rice beds, a means of survival for local indigenous tribes dating back thousands of years. She says 'We’ll be the ones birthing the next generation.  We have to step up.'

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L: Nina Gualinga (credit Santiago Cornejo) 
R: Nina Berglund (credit Nolan Berglund)

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