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Wednesday, January 6, 2021 

Contact: Bernadette Demientieff, 
bernadette@gwichinsteering.com, 907-458-8264 

Gwich’in Steering Committee Responds to Trump’s Sale of Sacred Lands in the Arctic Refuge  

In October 2019, Cultural Survival submitted a report on the state of Indigenous human rights in the United States as part of the 36th Session of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review, a process by which UN member States have the opportunity to review fellow States’ human rights records and make recommendations. 
 

By Erica Belfi

By Phoebe Farris 

By Kerstin Sabene  
                                                                         

On Saturday, October 12th, Chali'Naru Dones of the United Confederation of Taino People, stands atop the plinth where the decapitated statue of Christopher Columbus once stood, on the Boston waterfront. The crowd responded, "City by city, town by town, Christopher Columbus must come down!" photo: Claire Gosselin / Mass Peace Action.
 

By David Detmold
 

The NDN Collective is an Indigenous-led organization that is leading the #LANDBACK Campaign to build a “movement for collective liberation,” which will officially launched on Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2020 (Monday, October 12^th ).

Members of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, Yekuhsiyo Rosa Francour, Stara Cornelius, Daisee Francour at the 2018 Indigenous Peoples March in Washington D.C.. 

By Laura Navitsky and Ariel Iannone Román

From the dairy farms in New York to the vast fields of the Central Valley of California, Indigenous migrant farmworkers are among the most overworked, underpaid, vulnerable, and disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Indigenous essential workers put food on the table every day for us, our children, and our elders, but in return face poor working conditions due to discrimination and harassment, all of which has been exacerbated by the pandemic and the wildfires on the West Coast.