More Important than Gold, Water Should Not Be Traded on Wall Street
On December 8, 2020, several media sources reported that fresh water started to be traded on Wall Street as a commodity such as gold and wheat. A water crisis is worrisome enough, yet more alarming is the fact that our Mother Water will be controlled by a privileged group of people who will determine its value to the world. Read more.
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Dev Kumar Sunuwar Appointed as Advisor to UN General Secretary on UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples
On December 17, 2020, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres appointed Dev Kumar Sunuwar, staff member at Cultural Survival, as a member of the Advisory Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples. Read more.
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United States’ Human Rights Record Examined at UN Universal Periodic Review
The United States’ review took place on November 9, 2020. Its representative led its statements by saying the country is “immensely proud of our human rights record,” an egregious but not surprising denial of the violations enumerated in Cultural Survival’s report, in fellow States’ reviews, and beyond. Read more.
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Ray C. Anderson Foundation’s NextGen Committee Awards $100,000 to Cultural Survival
The NextGen Committee of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to Cultural Survival to support grassroots Indigenous solutions to climate change. Read more.
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Cementing Dispossession: Terror and Violence of the Brazilian Navy against Quilombola Peoples
Displacement and human rights violations have become a tool to punish the Quilombola Peoples’ identity and reinforce structural racism and impoverishment. Read more.
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Indigenous Radio Stations Coordinate Relief Efforts in the Aftermath of Hurricanes Eta and Iota in Central America
In November 2020, many Indigenous communities in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia, southern Mexico and other territories of Abya Yala (America) were recently impacted by two category 4 and 5 hurricanes. Read more. En español.
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Cultural Appropriation: Another Form of Extractivism of Indigenous Communities
Indigenous Peoples around the world continue to resist and reinvent ways of maintaining their lifeways in the face of the onslaught of a civilization increasingly in decline, based on the ideas of anthropocentrism, a free market, and destroying nature to quench their thirst of accumulation. Read more. En español.
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Keepers of the Earth Grant Partner:
OMIUBP Responds to COVID-19 in Guna and Ipeti Embera Communities
Organización de Mujeres Indígenas Unidas por la Biodiversidad de Panamá (OMIUBP) rose to meet the needs and challenges in their communities. OMIUBP works to fortify, develop, and retain Indigenous knowledge with a primary focus on Indigenous women’s role in defending human and biodiversity rights of their communities. “As a result of this health crisis, we realized that it was necessary to join forces to continue supporting the communities,” says Deidamia López, president of OMIUBP. Read more. En español.
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Community Media Grant Partner:
Radio Sensunat: Broadcasting to Revitalize the Nahuat Language in El Salvador
Santo Domingo operates a community radio station, Radio Sensunat, promoting Indigenous Nahuatl Pipil culture and language. Radio Sensunat is part of the Participative Radiodifusión Association of El Salvador (ARPAS) and is a tool for alternative communication to promote Indigenous Peoples’ rights and cultures. Read more. En español.
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Indigenous communities are powerhouses of knowledge, abundance, resilience, and resources. In this issue, we share the stories of Indigenous entrepreneurs and leaders who are making an immense difference in uplifting their communities on their own terms, and according to Indigenous values and principles, from a place of abundance. Learn More.
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¡Cultural Survival Quarterly ahora está disponible en español!
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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.
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