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** Nepal’s Indigenous Communities Face Systemic Rights Violations Amid Development
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Nestled between China and India, Nepal is home to 60 legally recognized Indigenous Peoples, collectively known as Adibasi Janajati, who comprise at least 35.08% of the total population. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Refusing Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear “Manifest Destiny”
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For the last five centuries, Indigenous Peoples and regions have been ravaged by outsiders pillaging resources: land, water, bodies, minerals—even DNA. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Indigenous Peoples and AI: Defending Rights, Shaping the Future of Technology
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Each year on August 9, the world comes together to observe the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, a day dedicated to honoring the resilience, wisdom, and sovereignty of over 476 million Indigenous people worldwide. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** The Impacts of Current Geopolitics and the New Mining Era on Indigenous Communities
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Terms like "transition minerals," "critical minerals," "development minerals," and "green minerals" are being used more and more to frame mining as essential for addressing the climate crisis. Read more. ([link removed])
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** An International Call to Respect the Rights of Residents of Kawasi Village in Indonesia
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On Obi Island in Indonesia, residents in Kawasi Village, the ancestral land of the Tobelo Galela Indigenous People, are calling for action from Harita Nickel. The company operates a large nickel mining and processing operation on the island near the village. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Indigenous Journalists Unite for Sovereignty and Free Press at Global Conference, Forging Path against Colonial Narratives
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Returning to the Indigenous Media Conference 2025, for the second time in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, I felt like coming home to a community of storytellers and journalists. The three-day annual event was held from August 13 to 15, with the theme “Sovereignty Equals Free Press,” organized by the Indigenous Journalists Association (IJA). Read more. ([link removed])
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** Hulu's “Blood & Myth” Examines Violent Crimes in Rural Alaska
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This year’s annual Indigenous Media Conference featured a screening of Hulu's true crime documentary, "Blood & Myth,” followed by a Zoom panel that included Executive Producer/Writer James Dommek Jr. (Iñupiaq). Read more. ([link removed])
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** A Hñähñu in Salt Lake City
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My name is Diana Ramírez León. I am a Hñähñu (Otomi) member. I am a sociologist and community communicator. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** URGENT: Pankararu-Pataxó Peoples Occupy Farm to Stop Lithium Destruction in Brazil
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Why are Indigenous Peoples occupying Fazenda Cristal? To protect their last water sources from lithium mining, after companies and governments had ignored their pleas for years. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Songs for the Return Home: A Filmmaker's Celebration of Buffalo Survivance
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The work of award-winning filmmaker and scholar Tasha Hubbard (Cree/ Peepeekisis First Nation) has explored both deeply personal as well as broader, more systemic narratives—from the trauma of forced family separation and police brutality to more optimistic and buoyant themes like the endurance of cultural memory and its importance to Indigenous survivance. Read more. ([link removed])
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Cultural Survival Global News Bulletin August 2025 ([link removed])

Remembering The Slave Trade: Episode 1 - Early Colonial South Africa ([link removed])

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** Indigenous Youth Fellow Spotlight:
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** Indigenous Women Taking the Lead in Implementing Climate Change Solutions
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The fight against climate change critically depends on the involvement of young women, who are among the most vulnerable to its impacts. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Indigenous Community Media Fund Grant Partner Spotlight:
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** Weaving paths: Territories, Communities and Peoples Moving Towards the Horizon of Living Well
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Wayna Tambo – Diversity Network is located in the city of El Alto, department of La Paz. It is a mid-sized city inhabited mostly by migrant populations who maintain a strong connection with the countryside. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine
49-2: Rematriation - Bringing Home our Past, Present, and Future ([link removed])
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This issue of Cultural Survival Quarterly (Vol. 49, No. 2) centers on rematriation, the reclaiming and restoration of Indigenous cultural knowledge and matrilineal practices to empower Indigenous communities in healing and renewing their past, present, and future.


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