Article 4AR8M 'A lot at stake': indigenous and minorities sidelined on climate change fight

'A lot at stake': indigenous and minorities sidelined on climate change fight

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Emily Holden in Washington
from Environment | The Guardian on (#4AR8M)

The two groups are affected the most by environmental degradation and pollution, but they often feel left out of the movement

Bernadette Demientieff, a representative for the indigenous Gwich'in nation, finds Washington DC anxiety-inducing, especially compared to the wide open spaces and tall mountains of Alaska.

She makes frequent trips to the US capital to fight oil drilling in what she considers sacred caribou calving grounds in the Arctic. But Demientieff is an outsider in the nation's capital, where her concerns have fallen on deaf ears with the Trump administration. She's also a bit of an outsider to the national environmental movement, too.

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