The climate movement gave this Texas tribe millions and a global platform. No one checked its story.

Juan Mancias of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas took his opposition to Gulf Coast natural gas pipelines to Paris in 2017, telling French media that banks financing the projects were enabling the 'ethnic cleansing' of Indigenous people in Texas. His campaign, alongside activist Bekah Hinojosa, targeted the proposed $18-billion Rio Grande LNG terminal and Rio Bravo Pipeline, and produced a study with Rainforest Action Network on threats to Carrizo/Comecrudo lands including Garcia Pasture, a site the World Monuments Fund flagged as threatened.

The reporting frames this as a case where climate movement money, media attention, and international platforms — including a UN presence — followed the tribe's account of its history and land claims without independent verification of that account.

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