India Logan-Riley is a

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archaeology student and

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, who was awarded the 2021

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Bright Award.

Biography

Logan-Riley has studied archaeology and

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at university. Logan-Riley attended the UN's climate talks in 2015 and 2016, where they were a member of the Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus. Their activism focuses on the rights of indigenous peoples. The impact of their activism has been discussed in the same context as that of

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and

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. They have spoken out on how rising sea levels will disproportionately affect

communities, in particular since their communities are already over-represented in poverty statistics. Logan-Riley is connected to Kahungunu,

Rangitāne Rangitāne is a Māori people, Māori iwi (tribe). Their rohe (territory) is in the Manawatū-Whanganui, Manawatū, Horowhenua, Wairarapa and Marlborough Region, Marlborough areas of New Zealand.Rongomaiwahine Rongomaiwahine was a Māori people, Māori chieftainess and chief ancestress of the Ngāti Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Kahungunu, and Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki ''iwi''. She lived on the Māhia Peninsula, probably in the late fifteenth century. Life Ron ...

iwi. In 2017, as a result of conversations at the UN Climate Conference, they founded Te Ara Whatu - a

youth-led initiative which focuses on climate activism. The group campaign has campaigned internationally at the UN Climate Conferences, and also campaigns at a national level to ensure that indigenous perspectives are part of the climate crisis planning of the New Zealand government. In 2021 they were awarded the Bright Award from Stanford University, which includes a prize fund of

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100,000. It recognises individuals who have an especial impact on "environmental preservation and global sustainability". Logan-Riley addressed the

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, where they centred the importance of indigenous knowledge and appealed to the politicians present to "get in line or get out of the way".

Awards and recognition

* Australian Progress Fellowship *Stanford Bright Award (2021)

References

External links

* India Logan-Riley
A tribute to te Moana Nui a KiwaTe Ara Whatu
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