Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous people around the world
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FILE - Cut down trees lie near the Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru's Amazon Forest on Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development shows Vy Lam, former adviser on Indigenous peoples at the U.S. Agency for International Development, who was laid off in March 2025 as part of President Donald Trump's downsizing of the agency. (U.S. Agency for International Development via AP)In this photo provided by Vy Lam shows Lam, a former adviser on Indigenous peoples at the U.S. Agency for International Development, on the floor of the United Nations during Sec. of the Interior Deb Haaland's speech at the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on April 17, 2023, in New York. (Vy Lam via AP)
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FILE - Cut down trees lie near the Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru's Amazon Forest on Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)