Edgar Villanueva says that Indigenous communities have solutions to environmental problems but struggle to access funding.
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Members of the Lumbee Tribe participate during the BraveNation Powwow. (Image credit: AP Photo/Allison Joyce, file)
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Each year, donors and foundations give billions of dollars to groups working to address climate change.
But Edgar Villanueva of the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina says only a tiny fraction goes to Indigenous communities, who have long cared for the Earth.
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