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Kaimana Barcarse interviews Menase Ntutu from the Maasai nation about the concerns of Indigenous Peoples living with disabilities, and how communities can collaborate to support the work of the Disability Caucus. Recorded at the 2015 UNPFII. 

Kaimana Barcarse interviews Doreen Demas of the Dakota Peoples in Canada about the focus, message, and goals of the Disability Caucus at the UNPFII. She discusses the growing impact and voice of the Indigenous with Disabilities activist community. Recorded at the 2015 UNPFII.

Kaimana Barcarse interviews Setareki Macanawai from Fiji. They discuss how the Disability Caucus hopes to extend its presence to regions and communities, in order to grow the network of Indigenous Peoples with disabilities. Recorded at the 2015 UNPFII. 

Kaimana Barcarse interviews Perty Maguru from Nepal about the unique dual identity that Indigenous Peoples with disabilities occupy. She hopes to help bring a voice to this community. Recorded at the 2015 UNPFII. 

Nancy Bordeaux (Sicangu Lakota) from South Dakota shares her work in domestic violence and sexual assault and gives advice on how to make a change. She speaks about historical trauma and its effects on Native American peoples today. Nancy works with women who are victims of domestic violence and human trafficking and hopes to lessen the economic and mental health disparities in Indigenous women.  We caught up with Nancy at the UNPFII 2015. 

Lemoine LaPointe, a Lakota of South Dakota and Minnesota, speaks about community conversations and their importance in providing support for Indigenous Peoples and their relationship with the surrounding region both in the present and in the future.  We met up with Lemoine at the UNPFII 2015.

Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn speaks about successes at the 2015 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Communities in the Pacific region have united over common issues, different groups have made efforts to align as Indigenous Peoples as a body in international conferences, and Indigenous Peoples were represented in a major climate change conference.

Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn speaks about successes at the 2015 UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues, including the new participation on Indigenous Peoples of Japan and Taiwan in the conferences.

En esta entrevista conoceremos a Rose Cunningham, mujer Indígena Miskita de la zona caribe norte de Nicaragua que nos da ejemplo de como las mujeres Indigenas puedan dirigir el cambio social. Rose hace trabajo social y comunitario con las mujeres en la prevención de la violencia y la promoción de una cultura de paz,  ha demostrado su liderazgo y con ello logró ganar la alcaldía de su municipio, Waspam, en la rivera del Río Coco. Hoy Rose tiene clara sus líneas de trabajo y nos comparte la importancia de que las mujeres vayamos tomando los espacios que nos corresponden.

La Red de Sanadoras Ancestrales del Feminismo Comunitario, Tzk’at en lengua maya quiché, nació en Guatemala en 2015. Estas mujeres mayas, que se autodenominan feministas comunitarias, participan en los procesos de recuperación emocional y espiritual de las mujeres indígenas que defienden territorios ancestrales frente las problemáticas de criminalización y judicialización y luchan por la vida en sus comunidades.