#LandBack in South Africa: The Fight for Table Mountain
Mountain 12 are a group of people from different Khoi and San Tribes who were arrested for trespassing by the South African police on January 1, 2021, while they were engaged in ceremonies at Table Mountain, a sacred site. Read more.
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The Importance of Community Radio in the Digital Era
Indigenous community radio stations around the globe serve an important role in delivering relevant information to communities in Indigenous languages that directly impacts their livelihoods. Read more. En español.
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Hydropower Projects on Likhu River Fail to Obtain Consent from Indigenous Communities in Nepal
Seven hydropower projects along the Likhu River in eastern Nepal have adversely impacted Indigenous and local communities who live in and near the project sites but have received little attention. Read more.
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15 Calls to Action that Honor Indigenous Rights: An Open Letter to the Biden-Harris Administration
We believe we are in a moment of time where we must choose one of two paths: one that centers reciprocity, love, empathy, inclusion, equity and kinship, or, one that centers hate, division, discrimination, extraction, and profits over people. We hope that this administration will go down the right path to right the wrongs of history. Read more.
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Community Organizing Leads to Success in Defending Land and Water in Puebla, Mexico
Indigenous lands around the world are threatened by extractive projects that undermine Indigenous lifeways and organizing, and Mexico is no exception to such extractive development. Mining, hydroelectric and wind projects, among others, put Indigenous communities in a state of constant resistance. We share with you two experiences of resistance, both in Puebla, Mexico, where collective struggles have had important achievements in protecting Indigenous lands, territories, and natural resources. Read more. En español
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Check out our Director of Strategic Partnerships and Communications' interview on Indigenizing Philanthropy to Restore Reciprocity and Relational Gifting on the Green Dreamer Podcast.
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Keepers of the Earth Grant Partner:
Center for Indigenous Rights (CEDIAC), Mexico
To address the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Indigenous Rights (CEDIAC) launched a project based on the participation and decision making of the communities of Chilón and Siala. With an emergency grant from Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund, CEDIAC trained community members as health promoters to protect their communities from the spread of the virus. Read more. En español.
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Indigenous Community Media Fellowship:
Media Youth Fellows Share their Experiences about their Fellowships
Since 2018, we have supported 33 Indigenous youth fellows in 10 countries. Through the Fellowship, youth have the opportunity to manage their own projects, enhancing their skills and education in new forms of community media. This experience deepens their cultural knowledge and builds on their sense of self as knowledgeable and powerful beings who create new media to promote their Indigenous identities. Storytelling has been a key medium in the transmission of Indigenous cosmologies through songs, stories, dance, and imagination. Read more.
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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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