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Joseph Lee

Joseph Lee, Aquinnah Wampanoag, is an Indigenous Affairs fellow for Grist and lives in New York City. Twitter: @josephvlee.

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Katsenhaienton Lazare, a Bear Clan Mohawk of the Haudenosaunee, welcomed delegates to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on April 25 with a 30 minute speech in Mohawk language. (Photo by Jenna Kunze for Native News Online)
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UN report urges greater protection for Indigenous rights

By Joseph LeeMay 9, 2022
MATAMOROS, MEXICO - FEBRUARY 25: Asylum seekers walk to the U.S.-Mexico border as a group of at least 25 immigrants were allowed to travel from a migrant camp in Mexico into the United States on February 25, 2021 in Matamoros, Mexico. The group was the first allowed to cross into south Texas as part of the unwinding of the Trump administration's Migrant Protection Protocols, (MPP), also known as the 'Remain in Mexico' immigration policy. Many of the asylum seekers had been waiting in the squalid camp alongside the Rio Grande for more than a year. Last week the first group of 25 MPP immigrants entered from Tijuana into San Ysidro, California. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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Indigenous climate migrants face unique challenges

By Joseph LeeMay 5, 2022
Endorois elders perform a ritual March 20, 2010 on the shores of Lake Bogoria, approximately 300 kilometres nothwest of Nairobi, to call blessings on themselves during a celebration ceremony. After nearly four decades, Kenya's indigenous Endorois community today celebrated finally returning to their ancestral lands, thanks to a landmark decision by the African Union; in a ground-breaking ruling, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights concluded in May 2009 that the Kenyan Government acted illegally in removing the Endorois community from their ancestral land, a decision was approved by the African Union at its January 2010 meeting in Addis Ababa . AFP PHOTO/TONY KARUMBA (Photo by TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Indigenous Endorois fight for their land and rights at UN

By Joseph LeeMay 4, 2022
CAN USE PHOTO SINCE ICT PARTNERED WITH GRIST. WE HAVE TO USE THE EXACT CREDIT BELOW.
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Indigenous Taíno of Puerto Rico fight for visibility, rights

By Joseph LeeMay 2, 2022
Darío José Mejía Montalvo, Chair of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues and Leader of the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia, (right) speaks from New York, New York. Left: National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations RoseAnne Archibald. (Photo by Tristan Ahtone, Grist)
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Indigenous peoples say states must apply, enforce FPIC

By Joseph LeeApr 27, 2022
(Photo by Grist / Getty Images)
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Indigenous leaders convene at UN, push for human rights protections

By Joseph Lee and Carina DominguezApr 25, 2022