Autumn Peltier (2004–), an Indigenous activist and member of the Anishinabek Nation, one of the First Nations of Canada, delivered this speech at the United Nations World Water Day before the UN General Assembly when she was only thirteen years old. Peltier was already a committed environmental warrior who came from ancestors who also revered the environment. She had begun speaking for environmental causes when she was eight, and by the time she stood before the UN on March 22, 2018, she had already addressed the Assembly of First Nations, a representative group made up of chiefs from the Indigenous peoples of Canada.