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June 2020 Enewsletter
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** For the Right to be Named and Counted: Indigenous Peoples are Excluded from COVID-19 Statistics
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Countries across the world have faced difficulties in attempting to produce data on the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths. In the United States, for example, almost half of the states who had published infection rates including ethnic demographic data by April 2020 did not include a category for Indigenous Peoples. Rather, Indigenous Peoples were considered under “Other.” Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Cultural Survival Launches Global Mapping Project Documenting COVID-19 in Indigenous Communities
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Cultural Survival is curating a global monitoring system for COVID-19 for Indigenous communities using Google maps technology to document COVID-19 cases and related human rights violations. Cultural Survival is producing this map ([link removed]) to collect and disseminate information to show the situations Indigenous communities are facing as a result of COVID-19. As the number of cases increase daily, and the lack of access to testing in rural areas, the data presented will evolve over time. Read more. ([link removed]) En Español ([link removed])
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** Open Letter to Jair Bolsonaro: Brazil is Failing to Protect the Health of Indigenous Peoples
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Read our letter to Brazil's president about our extreme concern over Brazil’s failure to protect the health and safety of the nation’s Indigenous population during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more. ([link removed]) Em português. ([link removed])
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** Celebrating the Life of Tata Domingo Choc Che and Demanding Justice for His Assassination
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Domingo Choc Che, Maya Q’eqchi’ Spiritual Guide, scientist, and master of traditional medicine, was brutally murdered on June 6, 2020, in a violent attack against his cultural practices. Read more. ([link removed]) En español ([link removed]) .
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** COVID-19 Prevention Manual for Community Radio Stations Available in 29 Indigenous Languages
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We have produced a prevention manual to support the essential activities of radio stations, including general guidelines for good communication going beyond prevention. This manual contains tools to prevent and protect journalists from possible spread of the virus at radio stations, and promotes the important role of a community engagement agent. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Complicity and Silence Taking Land from Indigenous Peoples in Costa Rica
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Indigenous Peoples have persisted in struggle for more than 500 years and in recent decades, the fight to regain their lands has been a very tough one. Today, more than ever, it is clear that Indigenous Peoples are still here and are ready to retake the lands from where they and their ancestors originated. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** 8 Indigenous Batwa Criminalized in DRC for Presence on Ancestral Land within Conservation Zone
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For the past 40 years, after the eviction of around 6,000 Batwa people from Kahuzi Biega National Park (PNKB), the Batwa people have suffered extreme poverty and wrongful treatment at the hands of PNKB. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Guarding Life and Land in the Face of COVID-19: The Ziora Amena Community’s Experience in Colombia
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The Ziora Amena community is located in the city of Leticia in the far south Amazona Department of Colombia, bordering Brazil and Peru. It is a Muruy community made up of 110 families. After the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the community decided to guard the entrances of the village, placed a checkpoint to prevent the virus from spreading, and used agriculture pumps to disinfect the area with hypochlorite. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Federal Court Backs Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
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On June 5, 2020, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in Massachusetts celebrated a victory in federal courts. Thedecision from a Washington D.C. district ([link removed]) court stated that a 2018 decision ([link removed]) by the U.S. Department of Interior that the Tribe was not “under federal jurisdiction” in 1934 for purposes of the Indian Reorganization Act was “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and contrary to law.” Read more. ([link removed])


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** Nelson Ole Reiyia On Covid-19 In Kenya ([link removed])
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In this radio program, we check in with Nelson Ole Reiya, CEO of the Nashulai Maasai Conservancy in Kenya, to find out about the current situation of the Maasai people in his region.

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Kera Sherwood-O'Regan on Indigenous Healthcare ([link removed])
Kera Sherwood-O’Regan's (Māori) work focuses on bridging Indigenous Peoples’ rights, the rights of people with disabilities, and climate change and health in Aotearoa (New Zealand).
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** Keepers of the Earth Grant Partners:
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** Supporting Indigenous-led COVID Responses
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Through the Keepers of the Earth Fund, we are supporting projects developed by Indigenous communities in response to the COVID-19 emergency. Since March 2020, we have funded 17 requests in 11 countries, totaling $47,921, yet the need is so much greater. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Community Media Grant Partners:
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** COVID-19 and the Indigenous Community Radio Stations
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In April and May, Cultural Survival funded 17 grants to 21 Indigenous community radio stations in Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and Ecuador from our Community Media Program COVID-19 Emergency Fund. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Indigenous Community Youth Fellows:
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** What are our Fellows up to?
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Indigenous communities where our youth fellows reside are making drastic adjustments to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fellows continue their advocacy in creating alternative ways to protect their knowledge keepers and natural world and to revitalize their traditions and languages to build a better future for the next generations. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine
44-2 The Future of Indigenous Health ([link removed])
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Get the latest issue focused on the Future of Indigenous Health. Colonization has done a lot of damage. Bringing back ceremonies repairs relationships to the land, as it heals trauma. Indigenous Peoples have time tested solutions to many health issues, it is time to return to traditional medicine. Learn More. ([link removed])


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