Rights of Nature and Indigenous Activism

Monday, Mar 20, 2023

4:30 PM PST (Pacific Standard Time)/7:30 PM EST (Eastern Standard Time)

In 2018, the White Earth Band of Ojibwe recognized the rights of manoomin (wild rice), the first law to recognize the legal rights of a plant species. In 2021, manoomin and the White Earth Band sued the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in White Earth Tribal Court to enforce the rights of wild rice, the first rights of nature enforcement case to be brought in a tribal court. 

White Earth tribal attorney Frank Bibeau and Thomas Linzey, senior legal counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, will be presenting.

Please register for this free virtual event HERE.