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** SIRGE Coalition Statement on the Critical Raw Materials Act
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European Parliament’s recognition of Indigenous rights is a positive step, but the law fails to fully recognize the sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples. Read more ([link removed]) .
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** The Third Malón de la Paz: A History of Claims into Silence in Argentina
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More than 2,000 kilometers, or 1,200 miles. This was the distance covered by more than 100 Indigenous representatives from different communities, sometimes on wagons or donkeys, sometimes on foot, during the almost three-month march called "El malón de la paz," or the “Peace Raid,” in Argentina in 1946. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** From Native American Journalist Association to Indigenous Journalist Association
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At this year’s National Native Media Conference, held August 10-12, 2023, in Winnipeg, Canada, members of the Native American Journalists Association voted to change their name to the Indigenous Journalists Association (IJA). Read more. ([link removed])
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** United Through History and Experience: Wampanoag-Bermuda Connections
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Indian John, a Wampanoag, was taken captive in Massachusetts in 1676 during King Philip’s War (June 20, 1675 – April 12, 1678) and sold into slavery in Bermuda. He resisted his slave masters, eventually attempting his escape and the murder of his captors. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Decolonizing and Indigenizing Media to Uplift Indigenous Peoples’ Voices in Asia
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Despite the abundance of media outlets, the coverage of Indigenous Peoples’ issues remains extremely limited. If Indigenous Peoples’ issues are covered at all, they are not always properly or positively portrayed. Thus, there is a need to decolonize and Indigenize the media, concluded the Asian Indigenous journalists who gathered recently in Chiangmai, Thailand. Read more ([link removed]) .
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** Mbororo Peoples’ Journey for Survival: Transhumance and Territoriality in Central Africa
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Indigenous Mbororo Peoples, nomad pastoralists practicing transhumance from time immemorial, remain in a legal limbo, continually displaced under jurisdictional movement in the regions of West and Central Africa. With thousands of deaths related to farmer-herder skirmishes recorded in the past two decades, the realities of climate change and the resulting massive loss of biodiversity exacerbate major security and economic challenges on the ground. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Cultural Survival Calls for Solidarity with Yvy Pyte Community of Paĩ Tavyterã Peoples
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Cultural Survival calls for solidarity with the Yvy Pyte community of the Paĩ Tavyterã Indigenous Peoples in the department of Amambay, Paraguay, who have been threatened and attacked by illegal invaders in their territories since 2021. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Upholds the Onondaga Nation’s Right to Challenge Illegal Land Acquisition
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Despite the existence of these treaties, New York State illegally claimed more than 2 million acres of land between 1788 and 1822 for the purpose of selling it for profit to non-Indigenous landowners. The illegally claimed land encompasses ancestral Onondaga territory from Syracuse and Onondaga Lake to the eastern shore of Lake Ontario, Binghamton to the south, and Watertown to the north.

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** Wakati Ni Sasa: A Holistic Approach to Sustainable Community Tourism in Sagala and Rakhasi
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Nestled in the majestic Sagala Hills, a community of mountain and plains dwellers graces the foothills and plains of the vast Tsavo East National Park, the largest of Kenya's national parks. Read more. ([link removed])
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On September 20-24, Cultural Survival gathered Indigenous leaders from across Southern Africa in conversation about Indigenous rights to Free, Prior and Informed Consent in the face of an exponential increase in demand in transition mineral mining. Listen to some voices from the event:
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Michel Forst on His Mandate as UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders ([link removed])
Cultural Survival interviewed Michel Forst, the first person to hold the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders, which is the first international mechanism in the world dedicated to protecting environmental defenders. Rapporteur Forst’s term began in June 2022.

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Día Internacional de la Traducción ([link removed])
El Día Internacional de la Traducción se conmemora el 30 de septiembre de cada año con el fin de “rendir tributo a la labor de los profesionales lingüísticos y al importante papel que desempeñan en acercar a las naciones, facilitar el diálogo, el entendimiento y la cooperación, contribuir al desarrollo y reforzar la paz y la seguridad mundial”.

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¡Libertad a los presos políticos de Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón! ([link removed])
Jaime Betanzos, Herminio Monfil, Alfredo Bolaños, Fernando Gavito y Francisco Durán, presos políticos de origen mazateco, oriundos de la comunidad de Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, en Oaxaca, México, se encuentran detenidos desde el 2014 sin haber recibido una sentencia.

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A través del podcast “Radio, música y lengua ayuujk”, el productor independiente Floriberto Vásquez, originario de Santa María Tlahuitoltepec Mixe, en Oaxaca, México, busca “explorar las potencialidades de la radio y la música para la continuidad de la lengua ayuujk”.
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** Indigenous Community Media Fund Grant Partner Spotlight:
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** Radio Maranki 89 FM, Peru
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Radio Maranki 89 FM is an initiative of the Marankiari Bajo Indigenous community. Our story began in 1992, with the desire to have our own bilingual media that allows Indigenous communities to share their stories, origins, and traditions. Read more ([link removed]) . En español. ([link removed])
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** Keepers of the Earth Fund Grant Partner Spotlight:
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** Association Zihuame Xotlametzin, Mexico
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In 2021, Association Zihuame Xotlametzin received a grant from the Keepers of the Earth Fund to support Nahua women from Chilapa and Ahuacuotzingo, Guerrero who are using traditional plant medicines to treat illnesses. Read more ([link removed]) .
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** Youth Fellow Spotlight:
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** One Body: Connected to the Earth
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Kuenan Tikuna (Tariano and Tikuna) from Brazil talks about her reality as a young Indigenous trans woman facing urbanization, and how gender and sexual diversity are often represented. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
Invest in Indigenous Leadership Today! ([link removed])
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** Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine

47-3 In the Crossfire: Being Indigenous in Conflict Areas ([link removed])
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In this issue of the CSQ, we bring you the voices of people whose lives have been affected by conflict.


** ¡Cultural Survival Quarterly ahora está disponible en español!
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