Sentences with phrase «whose ancestral lands»

Indigenous nations whose ancestral lands and waters include the site of the construction and the operation of the current pipeline want a broad coalition strong enough to block TMX on the ground.

A 2005 recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize award, Baldenegro was a second - generation environmental activist of the indigenous Tarahumara people, whose ancestral lands reside in the western Sierra Madre mountain range.

«The small contribution we're trying to make is to nationalize this so it's not just an issue for those whose back yards it is going through or for indigenous people whose ancestral lands are being ripped apart.»