Traditional owners hail land claim after 45-year wait

Traditional owners hail land claim after 45-year wait

Traditional owners are celebrating the return of more than 400,000 hectares of Country following four decades of negotiations...

More than 80 years ago, those of the Great Siekopai Nation were displaced from Pkëya, our ancestral territory and center of our culture and spirituality, by a war bordering Peru in which we had nothing to see. It has been decades of constant struggle to return to our home, to endure constant violations of our rights and discrimination until 2023, when we obtained a judicial sentence that obliges the Ministry of Environment, Water and Energy Tran…