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Mauna Kea's Thirty Metre Telescope Is the Latest Front in the New Fight for Indigenous Sovereignty

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Geekz Snow
Mauna Kea's Thirty Metre Telescope Is the Latest Front in the New Fight for Indigenous Sovereignty

By the 1990s, she saw the cultural, natural landscape of the nearly 4.2-kilometre-tall mountain become more of what she called a “humanscape”.

After 25 years, Pisciotta’s efforts have a renewed focus.

Hundreds of protesters have been gathering at the mountain since July to stop construction from starting on the TMT.

Indigenous communities from around the world are no longer sitting back and allowing corporations, governments rooted in colonialism or private interests to trample their sacred lands.

We’ve seen what these mobilisations can look like in Standing Rock, in Canada and the battle to stop the Trans Mountain Pipeline, and in Brazil where tribal nations have been protesting the loss of their land (especially now that they have a fascist in office).

Indigenous people are demanding governments, developers and even academics respect their tribal sovereignty.

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