Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous people around the world

Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous people around the world

The effort to protect the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade was long supported by financial assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development

In this photo provided by Vy Lam shows Lam, a former adviser on Indigenous peoples at the U.S. Agency for International Development, on the floor of the United Nations during Sec. of the Interior Deb Haaland’s speech at the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on April 17, 2023, in New York. (Vy Lam via AP)