A building wave – Pioneers Post

3 December 2024

Big business has a dismal record when it comes to respect for Indigenous peoples and local communities. That’s starting to shift, as even the most profit-hungry CEOs grasp what those closest to the land have always known: that our futures are all interconnected. Are the efforts of trailblazers like Patagonia a sign of a new era for corporate-Indigenous relationships?

Big business and Indigenous communities have a fractious – and sometimes devastating – history. Suspicion lingers in many parts of the world.

“In the Americas, there is a default where Indigenous groups say, ‘We don’t want to work with companies. We assume you’re trying to steal our lands. We assume you’re trying to undervalue what we’re doing’,” says Dilafruz Khonikboyeva of US-based nonprofit Home Planet Fund, which funds local and Indigenous communities.

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