Sabantho during her pre UNPFII training held in the UNDP building HQ in New York city next to UN headquarters
Sabantho in the United Nations General Assembly Hall - where all the Heads of State of the World give their speeches, just before the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues was opened and President Evo Morales of Bolivia spoke.
Sabantho marching in the protest wrapped in the flag of her people
Sabantho with Chase Iron Eyes (far left) and her father Damon (far right)
Sabantho Aderi Corrie is an 18 year old Barbados born Lokono-Arawak of Guyanese descent (her first two given names in the Lokono-Arawak language mean 'Beautiful Little Ground-Dove'), she is a graduate of the St Angela's Primary School and the St. Ursula's Secondary School in Bridgetown Barbados.
Sabantho then joined her father Damon Gerard Corrie (well known Caribbean Indigenous Rights activist) in the People's Climate Change Protest march around the White House in Washington DC on Saturday 29th April 2017, where she joined her father to help co-lead the Indigenous front end - alongside famous Hollywood A-list star Leonardo DiCaprio (who posed in photos with her), and also famous Lakota Lawyer and native rights activist Chase Iron-Eyes who was part of the anti Dakota Access Pipeline protests that galvanised world opinion as to the threat to humanity's water supply by the unscrupulous oil industry. Chase Iron Eyes is also a founder of the North American based LastRealIndians media website for Indigenous news from all over the Americas.
Sabantho is a naturally gifted artist and recently began a 40 foot long x 5 feet high wall Folkloric mural on Pakuri Territory, on which she is depicting aspects of Lokono-Arawak myth & legend, so the Lokono youth will not forget this important part of their cultural identity and traditional history.
She has created a Youth Art Council and plans to begin offering free classes on Pakuri Territory to teach Lokono youth the ancient coiling pottery technique from 2018; as pottery has become a dying traditional art in the Lokono-Arawak Tribal Nation today.
Her Barbados born father Damon Gerard Corrie (also of Guyanese Lokono-Arawak descent), and her mother is Shirling Simon Corrie, a Lokono-Arawak of the 240 square mile Pakuri Arawak Autonomous Territory in Guyana - where all four of Sabantho's other siblings were born (and one - her older sister Aderi - is buried).
The 40 foot long Folkloric Wall Mural Sabantho made for her tribe on Pakuri Lokono-Arawak Territory in Guyana.
She has created a Youth Art Council and plans to begin offering free classes on Pakuri Territory to teach Lokono youth the ancient coiling pottery technique from 2018; as pottery has become a dying traditional art in the Lokono-Arawak Tribal Nation today.
Her Barbados born father Damon Gerard Corrie (also of Guyanese Lokono-Arawak descent), and her mother is Shirling Simon Corrie, a Lokono-Arawak of the 240 square mile Pakuri Arawak Autonomous Territory in Guyana - where all four of Sabantho's other siblings were born (and one - her older sister Aderi - is buried).
The 40 foot long Folkloric Wall Mural Sabantho made for her tribe on Pakuri Lokono-Arawak Territory in Guyana.
This protest march drew over 150,000 protesters, and according to CNN - it reached 200,000 by the end of the march.
INDIGENOUS LED PEOPLES CLIMATE CHANGE MARCH 2017 - WASHINGTON DC
CNN AERIAL VIDEO OF CROWD ESTIMATE OF 200,000
https://www.facebook.com/cnn/videos/10156534873716509/?pnref=story
SABANTHO WAS ONE OF THE FEW LOKONO-ARAWAK GIRLS TO STILL UNDERGO THE TRADITIONAL 9 DAY LONG PUBERTY RITUAL - SNIPPET VIDEO HERE:
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SABANTHO WAS ONE OF THE FEW LOKONO-ARAWAK GIRLS TO STILL UNDERGO THE TRADITIONAL 9 DAY LONG PUBERTY RITUAL - SNIPPET VIDEO HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIn969_Odyk&list=UUyx4JY4jH_E1dYoTKz5AFIw&index=29
PLEASE SIGN THIS ONLINE PETITION AND SHARE
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/LEONARDO_DICAPRIO_INDIGENOUS_HUMANITARIAN_RELIEF_MISSION_TO_YEZIDI_TRIBAL_NATION_IN_IRAQ/?flrqMab
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