WASKA: The Forest is My Family
Nina Gualinga speaks to her grandfather’s legacy, calling out the commodification and extractivism of Indigenous lands in the Amazon Rainforest and how this consumption extends to the ancestral medicine, hayakwaska. Nina Gualinga, from the Sarayaku Peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon, is a leading advocate for Indigenous rights and climate justice. Elizabeth Swanson is an audiovisual storyteller, advocate for Indigenous rights, and community organizer from the Venecia Derecha Kichwa community.
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