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Sing for joy!
There are amazing people out there!

Have you heard of indigenous people? 
Do you know who they are?
Many definitions are rather wordy
and a little hard to understand.
However, there is a way of describing who they are that is easy to understand ...

"THE PEOPLE WHO FIRST LIVED IN A PLACE"
(from CBC Kids News - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)

Indigenous people are those people who lived in a place first (like a country, region, or territory)
and includes all their descendants to this very day.

There are so many, many awesome and
interesting things all about who they are,
way more than I can cover here.
I truly recommend learning more about them
as are an amazing part of the history of our world.

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Indigenous people are known by different terms to identify them depending on where they live.

In the United States, a couple of the terms are Native American peoples and Alaska Native peoples.

In Canada several of the terms they are known by are First Nations, Inuit, and Metis.

All across the world they are identified by
a variety of different terms.

Here is the really cool part!
For more years than you can imagine,
indigenous people have cared for the environment
and protected nature. They have always felt connected to the land and have respected animals and wildlife.

And to this day, they still care deeply for the land
and the environment. To them, it is a sacred responsibility, just as it always has been for their ancestors. It is super important to them.

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So when it seems there is a lot of bad news about nature and the climate,
remember that there are millions of indigenous people who are protecting the land, plants, water, soil, air, and animals today.
They protect most of our planet's biodiversity. (Biodiversity is the amazing variety of living things in a given place, like a stream or
desert or forest or even earth.)
They have the knowledge of how to make
things like our forests and oceans flourish.

But very importantly, indigenous people across the world are teaching many others
how to take care of and heal nature.
Their wisdom is priceless and can help
make our world so much better.
With their help, our big blue planet can
have a healthy future!

"We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born.
We must protect the forests for those
who can't speak for themselves such as
the birds, animals, fish and trees."

Qwatsinas (Hereditary Chief Edward Moody), Nuxalk Nation

Illustrations - permission obtained via store policies and direct communications:

birds by PaintPixelCo (Etsy) and fence by SparkleZillaDesigns (Etsy)

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