Advancing Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Cultures Worldwide, since 1972

Dear Friend,

Six months into the global pandemic, we want to reflect on how much we have accomplished with your generous support. As you know, Indigenous Peoples experience disproportionate rates of extreme poverty, malnutrition, and preexisting health conditions. Combined with a lack of access to culturally-relevant information, quality healthcare, housing, and clean drinking water, the pandemic has brought devastating challenges to Indigenous communities globally.

I am extremely proud to share the work that our team has accomplished. Our COVID-19 response features a holistic, multilayered approach including redistributing financial resources and developing, distributing and translating life-­saving information:

► Our Keepers of the Earth Fund supported 31 communities in 16 countries with emergency grants. Our partners are building on existing initiatives and establishing new projects in pursuit of food sovereignty, water security, local communications strategies, mutual aid, and healthy communities.

► Our Community Media Grants Project provided grants to 21 radio stations  to create radio programs about COVID­-19 prevention. To support their essential work, we also published a Prevention Manual to ensure broadcasters are able to continue their operations safely. It is now available in 85 Indigenous languages!

► Through our Indigenous Rights Radio program, we produced 417 Public Service Announcements for preventive measures against COVID­-19 in 120 Indigenous languages and distributed through 1200+ radio stations.

► We are documenting COVID­-19 cases and related human rights violations in Indigenous communities using Google maps technology, enabling Indigenous Peoples to share their own factual data and bring awareness to the violations occurring amid the global pandemic.

With you on our team, Cultural Survival is upholding Indigenous rights, health, well being and cultural continuity of Indigenous Peoples during this critical time. We ask you to continue to work alongside us to support Indigenous Peoples by making a donation today!


In solidarity and gratitude, 

Galina Angarova (Buryat)
Executive Director 

Cultural Survival advocates for Indigenous Peoples' rights and supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures and political resilience since 1972. We envision a future that respects and honors Indigenous Peoples' inherent rights and dynamic cultures, deeply and richly interwoven in lands, languages, spiritual traditions, and artistic expression, rooted in self-determination and self-governance.