Ramona Bennett, the Puyallup elder who for nearly 60 years has been a leader of the Native rights movement in the Pacific Northwest, was listed last week in Forbes Magazine’s list of the 50 most impactful women over 50.
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AXIS Capital recently became the first insurer in North America to adopt a policy stipulating that it will not underwrite projects without ensuring clients have obtained the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of impacted Indigenous communities. This sets a best practice globally for insurers’ policies on Indigenous rights.
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A Washington methane gas project is compounding a crisis of tribal consultation, pension funds and national immigration practices.
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We were put here to protect these lands and waters and that is what we will continue to do. We will continue the fight. Too much is at stake.
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At their 77th annual convention, The National Congress of American Indians passed a sweeping resolution calling on the, “U.S. insurance industry to adopt, as part of project and general insurance underwriting policies, a requirement to obtain and document the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent of impacted Tribal Nations.”
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This fall marked the 50th anniversary of an event that sparked the landmark ruling by federal Judge George Boldt in U.S. v. Washington that upheld our treaty-reserved rights to hunt, fish and gather.
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