For nearly a decade, seventeen-year-old Indigenous activist Autumn Peltier has been speaking to local communities and world leaders about the sacredness of water—and how and why we should protect it.

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[This episode originally aired April 2022.]

Autumn Peltier: Saving Sacred Water