How to describe the Wiwa in a few sentences? An indigenous people of the mountains who wear white because they prefer to negotiate than to argue, peace to war. A community who are worried about what we are doing to the world, and feel they need to compensate for the rest of us. And a community who feel taking too many of the trees or mining the minerals found underground disrupt s the balance. They live like this but see the snow on the peaks of the Sierra Nevada where they live fall each year, the rivers at the bottom of the mountains dry up.

–Laura Dixon