Casey Camp-Horinek
JUDGE
Environmental Ambassador, Ponca Nation
Traditionalist, Wisdom Keeper, Speaker, Author, Actor and Drumkeeper of the Ponca PaThaTa Women’s Scalp Dance Society, Casey Camp-Horinek is an elder of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma, and has been on the forefront of the global Indigenous Rights of Nature Movement for over a decade. Instrumental in the drafting of the International Indigenous Women’s Treaty protecting the Rights of Mother Earth, and the adoption of the first Rights of Nature and Rights of Rivers Statues by a Tribal Nation of Turtle Island, Casey is firm in the knowledge that indigenous Solutions ARE the answer to Climate Chaos.
Casey is a board member of Movement Rights, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, Earthworks, and Chairwoman of the Indigenous Council of the Global Alliance of the Rights of Nature.
“We have to honor the natural laws. We have to realize that we are not protecting nature. We ARE Nature Protecting itself.” Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca Nation