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March 23, 2022

MacKenzie Scott

Helping Any of Us Can Help Us All

MacKenzie Scott announces the organizations, including Nia Tero, receiving her support, sharing that, "Equity can only be realized when all people involved have an opportunity to help shape it...If you are looking for a way to serve humanity’s common cause, every one of them is a great candidate. Helping any of us can help us all."

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March 23, 2022

Eco-Business

Costly and technical reporting: key barriers for Indigenous People in carbon trading

On the sidelines of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Geneva, Indigenous Peoples leader Jennifer Tauli Corpuz talks to Eco-Business about the challenges of earning from carbon trading in Asia and the Pacific.

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March 18, 2022

Think Global Health

Indigenous Land Guardianship Around the World

Nia Tero founder and CEO Peter Seligmann spoke with Think Global Health about land guardianship as a right of Indigenous peoples, and Nia Tero's vision of an Earth where Indigenous peoples defend and uphold its thriving forests, lakes, fields, and oceans.

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February 4, 2022

Think Global Health

Amplifying Indigenous Knowledge

The Seedcast podcast launches its second storytelling season. Learn about the wide range of stories highlighting how Indigenous guardianship is being done in different ways and in different places, sometimes in ways one might not expect.

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January 26, 2022

South Seattle Emerald

Seedcast: An Environmental Storyteller Reconnects to His Farming Heritage

"In my role as an associate producer on the Storytelling team at Nia Tero, I have a bit of a reputation. Whenever there’s a photo or video shoot on a farm, they call me — “the farm guy.” So when I was asked to do a photoshoot on an Indigenous-run farm in Tacoma last fall, I accepted the assignment with glee." - Felipe Contreras, Associate Producer, Storytelling at Nia Tero

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January 19, 2022

Indian Country Today

Sundance puts spotlight on Indigenous films

For Cherokee filmmaker Brit Hensel, the Sundance Film Festival is a chance to showcase not just a groundbreaking film but also her people. Her film, “ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (Udeyonv),” or “What They’ve Been Taught,” explores reciprocity among the Cherokee people as told through an elder. The film features not just a Cherokee director but an all-Cherokee film crew.


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