Indigenous women in Brazil are leading the fight for climate and environmental justice by bringing ancestral strength and knowledge to the beacons of power in the country. These women have been protesting and reaching positions in congress, with their demands expanding on ecological frameworks of justice. They are pushing for a new bill to protect Indigenous women from violence linked to mining and exploitation of the environment and communities. Furthermore, the women have been creating spaces for strategic and successful sisterhood, decolonization, and community building for indigenous women in and out of government. They have successfully overturned the marco temporal legal concept which attempted to trivialize Indigenous claims to land, leaving protected peoples and environments vulnerable to violence and extraction. This is part of their mission to reforest politics and the mind—engaging in actions that heal the planet, people, and greater ecosystem. They are bringing regeneration not just to their environment, but to the world through knowledge, care, solidarity, and re-Indigenization. They are demanding the recognition and uplifting of Indigenous women and their work in order to restore the world.
