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January 2023 Enewsletter
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** International Decade of Indigenous Languages Launches with a Call “No One Left Behind, No One Outside” by 2032
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On December 13, 2022, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in cooperation with the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the members of the Global Task Force for Making a Decade of Action for Indigenous Languages, marked the official launch of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages ([link removed]) through a hybrid in-person and virtual high-level celebration at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The UN General Assembly held similar high-level events for the launching of the Decade on December 16. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Sonia Guajajara Appointed First Minister of Newly Created Ministry of Indigenous Affairs in Brazil
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On December 28, 2022, Sonia Bone de Souza Silva Santos (Guajajara), also known as Sonia Guajajara made history when she was appointed by President Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva as the minister of the newly created Ministry of Indigenous Affairs. Read more. ([link removed])

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** Stop the Ecuadorian Government’s Violence Against the A’i Cofán de Dureno Community Now
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Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund grant partners, the A’i Cofán de Dureno community in Ecuador, have been mobilizing to defend their ancestral lands against oil exploitation by the national oil company Petroecuador for six months. On January 10, 2023, Petroecuador employees tried to enter A’i Cofán territory to continue constructing a road to facilitate oil development. Read more. ([link removed]) En español ([link removed]) .
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** UN Member States Review India’s Record on the Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
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On November 10, 2022, UN member states reviewed India’s human rights record during the 41st Session of the Universal Periodic Review, a process carried out by the UN Human Rights Council. Reviewing States heavily criticized it for failing to give specific attention to the defenders of the rights of minority communities, including Dalits (Scheduled Castes) and Adivasi (Indigenous Peoples or Scheduled Tribes), human rights activists, journalists, women’s rights defenders, and other defenders working to safeguard the rights of women and children. Read more ([link removed]) .
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** We Still Practice Our Mid-Winter Traditional Lifeways
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At different times throughout the year, we feel the effects of universal changes and shifts in more ways than we realize. Those shifts occur during the winter solstice, spring equinox, summer solstice, and the autumn equinox. For thousands of years, Indigenous Peoples around the world have understood and acknowledged their interconnection with the universe, from how traditions are practiced to the effects the seasonal shifts have on us. Read more. ([link removed])
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** A Letter to Weavers of Queer History
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Like the huipiles woven by Indigenous women in Mexico and Guatemala, to exist is to be a pattern that describes what surrounds the self and the community; all that defines the homeland where ancestral lifeways have been solidified by generations of Indigenous people, and where the flora and fauna have been explored by them. Huipiles carry on them a community’s universe: the biological, ecological, environmental, cultural, sociological, and geographical. Huipiles also carry on them the historical, everything that stretches back to a time before the arrival of foreigners from Europe and a history of their impositions. Read more. ([link removed]) En español ([link removed]) .
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** Convocatoria 2023 para Jóvenes Indígenas Creadores y Agentes de Cambio ([link removed])
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** Convocatoria 2023 para proyectos del Fondo de Medios Comunitarios Indígenas ([link removed])
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International Day of Education 2023 ([link removed])

In most countries that were colonized, education is in the language of the colonizer, thus causing Indigenous languages to suffer greatly. Cultural Survival has partnered with Radio Riverside in Upington, South Africa to produce a digital dictionary of over a thousand words with Ouma Katrina Esau. Ouma Katrina is the last remaining fluent speaker of N/uu, an ancient African language.

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Education in Nigeria ([link removed])
In this report from Positive FM 102.5 FM in Akure Nigeria, the producers went to the streets to talk to community members about the state of education in Nigeria. Produced by Positive FM in Nigeria.

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Cultural Survival Global News Bulletin January 2023 ([link removed])
News bulletin on the topic of Indigenous rights. In this edition we cover: South Africa, Kenya, Guatemala, and more.

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Día Internacional de la Educación ([link removed])
A pesar de que la educación es un derecho humano que resulta esencial para construir un mundo mejor, “en la actualidad, 244 millones de niños y jóvenes están sin escolarizar y 771 millones de adultos son analfabetos”. En el caso de los Pueblos Indígenas, pese a que este derecho se reconoce en tratados y acuerdos internacionales, en la actualidad existen grandes disparidades en materia de acceso a la educación entre quienes formamos parte de un Pueblo Indígena y la población en general.

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Verbena Muxe: entrevista con Karla Rey ([link removed])
En este programa conocerás a “Verbena Muxe”, un colectivo que tiene por objetivo la difusión e inclusión de la comunidad Muxe del Istmo de Tehuantepec. Además, escucharás las reflexiones de Karla Rey, quien platica acerca de su trabajo, sus sueños y los retos a los que se enfrenta la comunidad Muxe en México.

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“Voces Indígenas”, noticiero de Radio Comunitaria Iztahuatalix ([link removed])
En el noticiero “Voces Indígenas”, de la Radio Comunitaria Iztahuatalix, en Puebla, México, se informa sobre estas afectaciones y se presentan entrevistas a integrantes de la comunidad de Huitzilan de Serdán, quienes nos dicen por qué las problemáticas que ha generado la pandemia por Covid-19 son una amenaza para los Pueblos Indígenas.
820+ Urgent Public Service Announcements on COVID-19 Are Now Available in 150+ Indigenous Languages ([link removed])
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** Keepers of the Earth Partner Spotlight:
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** Diné Introspective (Diné), USA
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New Mexico-base Diné Introspective works to strengthen Indigenous communities and families through revitalizing Indigenous identity, resilience, and ancestral knowledge to sustain a healthy lifestyle. Read more ([link removed]) . En español. ([link removed])
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** Indigenous Community Media Fund Partner Spotlight:
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** Radio KWLP Promotes Hualapai Language and Culture on the Air
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If you listen to KWLP, 100.9 FM, “The Peach”, the live and local station of the Hualapai Nation, broadcasting from Peach Springs, Arizona, and worldwide at www.kwlpradio.com, you may have noticed you are hearing more of the Hualapai language and culture coming to you across the airwaves! Read more ([link removed]) . En español. ([link removed])
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** Youth Fellow Spotlight:
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** Dancing for Pacha Mama: Maria Rosa Guandinango (Kichwa)
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In the northern part of Ecuador, in the province of Imbabura, Cotacachi canton, two dance groups, Kury Tushuy (Golden Dance) and Sumak Sisay Tushuy (Wonderful Blooming), are led by Maria Rosa Guandinango (Kichwa). Her fellowship project focuses on three areas: strengthening the Andean cosmovision, the Kichwa language, and art through sacred dance. Read more ([link removed]) . En español. ([link removed])
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** Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine

46-4 We Have Always Been Here: Decolonizing Gender ([link removed])
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This issue of the CSQ is dedicated to uplifting our relatives of other genders and those who identify as non-binary.


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