WILD12 Delegate Spotlight: Lewis Cardinal
Lewis Cardinal is Woodland Cree from Northern Alberta in Treaty 8 territory, and has worked for many years in cross-cultural and Indigenous communications and for development of First Nations spaces and education.
WILD12 Delegate Spotlight: Anita Sanchez
Anita Sanchez is Nahua (also known as Aztec) and Mexican-American, and has recently returned from trips to the Arctic and the Amazon to bridge movements of Indigenous peoples and the land.
WILD12 Delegate Spotlight: Iya Tahirah Abubakr
Iya is a medicine woman, diviner, shamanic practitioner, founder & co-founder for the St. Croix Council of Elders. Iya’s life purpose and dedication are to the service of humanity as a whole and to leave the earth in a greater place than she found it.
WILD12 Delegate Spotlight: Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn
Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn of the Ngāti Kurī and Te Rarawa Māori peoples of Aotearoa (colonized name - New Zealand) shares photos of her homeland and her organizing actions against extractive industries and treaty signings.
WILD12 Delegate Spotlight: George Pletnikoff
George Pletnikoff, of the Unangan peoples of Alaska, shares his memories of growing up in the Aleutian Islands, where the land and the sea were once filled with fur seals.