By Verónica Aguilar (Mixtec, CS Staff)
On May 22, the International Day for Biological Diversity, Cultural Survival presents the practice of chaku, or vicuña wool harvesting, in the La Angostura area of Catamarca Province in Argentina. Chaku is an economic and cultural activity that promotes the conservation of nature on Indigenous lands.
El 12 de mayo de 2025 Victoria Nuñez Fernández, parte del Lof Pillañ Mawiza (Chubut, Argentina) y criminalizade por su defensa de la tierra y el medio ambiente, tenía su audiencia de revisión de libertad condicional.
The Mapuche Tehuelche community of the Lof Pailako in Chubut, Argentina, are facing forced eviction from their ancestral lands.
By Candela Palacios (CS Staff)
The Collective of Communicators promotes the voices of Indigenous leaders and defenders of Pachamama, where the spirituality of Indigenous Peoples is sustained. They work with different institutions and communities to meet the current need for more media and publications that address Indigenous issues in Argentina. The Native voices that are featured express their realities and worldview in their native language.
The objective of the Raíces Ancestrales Indigenous Audiovisual Production Company is identity-based communication to make visible new voices of women, Indigenous youth, children, and Elders.
By Candela Palacios (CS Staff)
Cultural Survival stands in solidarity with the Mapuche Tehuelche Peoples of the Lof Paillako community in Chubut, Argentina, whose forced eviction has been momentarily suspended pending a decision in a federal court. However, the situation remains critical.
By Clemente Flores (Kolla)
Photos by Joaquin Zaldivar and Soledad Sede
Today, we take the floor on behalf of various Indigenous communities from the territory currently known as the Argentine Republic, who unfortunately could not be present here. We seek to convey their words in order to make known the persecution, violence, and dispossession that our brothers and sisters are suffering because of an extractivism that is disguised as "green", but which in reality responds to the same capitalist logic that has justified the destruction of our communities for more than five centuries.
By Candela Palacios (CS Staff)
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
