Indigenous Stewardship: Fulfilling our Responsibilities to Land and Community

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Indigenous Stewardship: Fulfilling Our Responsibilities to Land and Community
Cultural Survival Quarterly 46-3 (September 2022)

Cover photo by Toroa Creative.

Join us in celebrating 50 years of promoting and amplifying Indigenous voices! This issue of the Cultural Survival Quarterly is dedicated to Indigenous land stewardship, the struggles to secure Indigenous land rights, and our rights and responsibilities to our ancestral territories. Bringing the voices of Indigenous leaders across the globe who are risking their lives to secure land titles, protect their territories from extractive industries, rematriate and restore land, get land back to its original stewards, and ensure that Traditional Knowledge is passed on through our Indigenous languages and arts. Indigenous Peoples are fighting for the future of our planet and to protect the remaining biodiversity on Earth.

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Features

#LandBack Is the Solution

Shaldon Ferris (Khoisan)

Demetrius Johnson (Diné) speaks about NDN Collective’s #LandBack campaign.

Moondang-ak Kaaradjiny: We Are the Carers of Everything

Jack Collard (Nyoongar)

Nyoongar Peoples are revitalizing their culture and building capacity to again assume their roles as the carers of land.

Noongar Housing First
Tina Pickett (Noongar) and Lara Silbert

Noongar Mia Mia takes a cultural approach to housing and homelessness in Perth, Australia.

Honoring Our Soil: Hua Parakore
Shaldon Ferris (Khoisan)

Dr. Jessica Hutchings (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Huirapa, Gujarat) speaks about a Māori verification and validation system for food and agriculture.

The Struggle to Implement Maya Land Rights in Belize
Cristina Coc (Q’eqchi’ Maya)

At the center of the Maya struggle is the ambition to transform Belize to respect Indigenous relationships with territory.

Rescuing Tanchara Community Lands from Gold Mining through Biocultural Community Protocols
Bernard Guri (Dagara)

In Ghana, Indigenous values are the basis for community organizing to defend sacred lands

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Securing Indigenous Land Rights in Nepal
Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar)

Land rights activists Nanda Kandangwa (Limbu) and Ritu Thapa (Magar) are tirelessly working to secure title and access to Indigenous lands.

Departments

Executive Director’s Message

Indigenous Languages

Oneida Language Nest

Indigenous Arts

Decolonizing Through Color

Rights in Action

Indigenous Rights Are Essential to the Rights of Nature

Climate Change

Louisiana Tribes Adapt to Climate Change While Upholding Sovereignty

Keepers of the Earth Fund Grant Partners

Reclaiming Indigenous Lands in Costa Rica: FRENAPI

Staff Spotlight

Pablo Xol (Maya Q’eqchi’)

Bazaar Artists

Eliseo Ramirez (Zapotec) of Khadi Oaxaca

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Landback - A Conversation with Demetrius Johnson

Demetrius Johnson (Diné) is a #LandBack Organizer at Rapid City, South Dakota-based nonprofit NDN Collective. Originally from Tółaní, Ganado, Arizona, Johnson began community organizing shortly after being elected President of Kiva Club around the disastrous Gold King Mine spill that affected his people in 2015. Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Rights Radio Coordinator, Shaldon Ferris (Khoisan), recently spoke with Johnson about his work on NDN Collective’s #LandBack Campaign.

Jessica Hutchings on Hua Parakore

Dr. Jessica Hutchings (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Huirapa, Gujarat) is a decolonizing researcher in the areas of Māori food sovereignty, food security, cultural and intellectual property rights, and the restoration of the environment through the restoration of Indigenous rights in Aotearoa (New Zealand.) She is actively involved with Te Waka Kai Ora (the National Māori Organics Authority) as a grower and a lead researcher to develop a tikanga-based Indigenous verification and validation system for food and agriculture called Hua Parakore. Dr. Hutchings speaks to IRR about a Māori verification and validation system for food and agriculture.

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