Sounds of SAND Transforming Colonization, Extractivism & Socio-Ecological Injustice: Casey Camp-Horinek, Osprey Orielle Lake, Abby Reyes & Rae Abileah
Mar 21, 2026
Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca elder and Hereditary Drumkeeper who centers Indigenous sovereignty. Osprey Orielle Lake, climate justice leader and WECAN founder who lifts up women's and Indigenous leadership. Abby Reyes, author and resilience director who links personal loss to extractive harms. They tackle colonization, extractivism, legal victories for Indigenous rights, community-rooted action, and paths toward collective healing.
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Indigenous Rights Are Legal Tools And Living Knowledge
- Indigenous rights combine legal protections and living knowledge, offering both Free Prior and Informed Consent and deep ecological practices.
- Osprey contrasts international law (collective rights) with Indigenous knowledge as practical tools to block extractive projects and guide land stewardship.
Support Free Prior Informed Consent And Learn From Communities
- Stand with Indigenous peoples to enforce Free Prior and Informed Consent and block extractive projects legally.
- Osprey advises both legal solidarity and learning Indigenous land practices rather than claiming indigeneity.
Climate Upheaval As Nature's Purification
- Casey frames climate upheavals as a purification by nature aligning natural law with human law.
- She grounds rights of nature and Indigenous sovereignty as responses to that purification, restoring relational reciprocity.
