Artemisa Barbosa Ribeiro (known as Artemisa Xakriabá) is a Brazilian

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. A leader of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, her work focuses on the Amazon jungle and

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. Artemisa Xakriabá belongs to the Xacriabas indigenous people located in the north of the state of

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, in the southeast of Brazil. She has expressed the problems suffered by her community in the fight to protect its territory from environmental damage from mining. She is a representative of the indigenous and traditional communities that are part of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities. On several occasions, she denounced Brazilian President

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for his policies regarding the Amazon and for the government's refusal to take measures to protect the

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. Artemisa spoke at the global climate strike held on Friday, September 20, 2019, in

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, before thousands of young people around the world mobilized by

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and

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, which concluded with comments from indigenous leaders,

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and organizers. On this occasion, she was dressed in the

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of her

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, a feather headband and parts of her body and face painted. She was present at the Climate Action Summit convened by the UN together with

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. She also accompanied Thunberg to demand solutions from the

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With determination, she managed to reach several US senators and deputies to present an

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from the

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who make up the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities. She lives in

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, where she studies

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and

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