The gathering was in honor of the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Native women face murder rates more than 10 times the national average.

The Yuturi Warmi, an Ecuadorian patrol group, vowed to protect their community's land in the Amazon Rainforest from pollution of extractive industries.

The Peruvian Mari Luz Canaquiri and her colleagues won a historic ruling that holds the Marañón River as a subject of a right, which the activist said paves the way to protecting the Amazon.

The world’s fourth-largest dam will flood some of the land that indigenous tribes have lived on for centuries.

Encouraging a younger generation to lead on issues like water is a way to restore Native women's rightful place in tribal communities, they say.

The Yuturi Warmi, an Ecuadorian patrol group, vowed to protect their community's land in the Amazon Rainforest from pollution of extractive industries.