“The struggle for Mother Earth is the mother of all struggles!”

This September, over 8,000 Indigenous women representing 247 nationalities from all of the biomes of Brazil converged in Brasilia for the Third Indigenous March of Ancestral Warrior Women in Defense of Biodiversity and Ancestral Roots organized by the National Association of Ancestral Indigenous Women Warriors (ANMIGA).

They marched to reconnect with each other after years of intense resistance and to celebrate their growing power to influence policies that affect their lives, bodies, and territories. They were joined by international solidarity delegations of Indigenous women and allies, including Amazon Watch.

Indigenous women traveled for thousands of miles to join the march. They came from the Amazon (the world’s largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest), Cerrado (the world’s largest tropical savannah), Pantanal (the world’s largest wetlands), Mata Atlantica (Atlantic rainforest), Caatinga, and Pampa to demonstrate their collective power to Brazil’s new government and emphatically demand, “No to Marco Temporal!”