Crossing The River

• Christine Kandie: Reclaiming Unheard Voices

  In this episode, Christine Kandie (Endorois Indigenous People, Kenia) shares a deeply personal story of dispossession, resistance, and healing. Following the forced eviction of her people from their ancestral land in 1973, Christine grew up hearing stories of a lake that was like a womb for her community—vital, spiritual, and irreplaceable. In this episode, we follow her journey from a childhood in exile to becoming the founder of the Endorois Indigenous Women Empowerment Network. Along the way, she has challenged layers of invisibility to demand justice, reparations, and recognition. This is a story about the power of memory, identity, and what it means to keep fighting when you are told to forget who you are.

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• Patricia Tobón Yagarí: Bridging Worlds [ENG]

  Patricia Tobón Yagarí (Emberá-Chamí Indigenous People, Colombia) is an Indigenous attorney who bridges worlds: between Indigenous and non-Indigenous cosmologies, communities and the State, Western law and the stories of the Colombian armed conflict, and the processes of truth, healing, and reparation. Her home was her first school, and her career demonstrates that being born between two worlds—and deeply understanding both—is a powerful tool for building bridges between diverse actors.

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• Mphatheleni Makaulule: Words That Weave The Land [ENG]

  In the first episode of the second season, Mphatheleni Makaulule (Venda Indigenous People, South Africa) shares her experience as a keeper of Indigenous knowledge systems. Mphatheleni argues that defending her territory means protecting her language—the words she and her people use to foster relationships with their land. As part of her work, she has documented and preserved the knowledge of the elders and the wisdom embedded in their language.

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• Manifesto - Season 2 [ENG]

  Crossing the River is a podcast in which we hear from Indigenous leaders who defend life on Earth every day, in their own words, because they are the protagonists of their own stories. To make the collective decisions which will define our present and our future, and to re-examine the stories we tell about our past, we must listen to their voices. This podcast amplifies Indigenous peoples’ voices; it does not explain or interrupt them. Here, you will hear directly from Indigenous leaders, because deep listening requires paying close attention to the way they pause and breathe and to the weight they carry in their voices.We invite you to cross the river, to connect and meet with Indigenous leaders and their peoples. With this exercise in attentive listening and practice, we plant this collective seed for the future with them.Welcome to the second season of Crossing the River.Crossing the River is a podcast from the More Than Human Life Program (MOTH), based at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law and 070 Podcasts.The team behind the podcast is Carlos Andrés Baquero Díaz from MOTH, Natalia Arenas, Goldy Levy, and Andrés Villegas. The original art is by Nefazta and the music is by Cosmo Sheldrake. 

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• Davi Kopenawa: Contra la sociedad de los cachivaches [ESP]

  En el episodio final de esta temporada de Cruzar el Río, conversamos con Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, chamán, líder y etnógrafo del pueblo indígena Yanomami de Brasil. Davi nos invita a reflexionar sobre la obsesión materialista de la sociedad moderna, la que él llama como el «pueblo de las mercancías», que también se puede traducir como el pueblo que se concentró en acumular cachivaches. Este pueblo está afanada por explotar y apropiarse de la vida humana y más-que-humana. Desde su conocimiento ancestral, Davi comparte cómo el pueblo Yanomami mantiene un diálogo constante con la naturaleza, el ser que no miente, ofreciendo una visión crítica y transformadora para repensar nuestra relación con el mundo que habitamos.

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