More than 400 grant recipients from tribal government programs and educational nonprofit organizations from across the U.S., Alaska, Hawai’i, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands attended last month’s Administration for Native Americans (ANA) three-day grantees conference in Washington, D.C.
Spend two weeks this summer in Washington, D.C., studying your Native language, or mentoring a language advocate!
WE STILL LIVE HERE Âs Nutayuneân, an hour-long film directed by Anne Makepeace, and produced with the assistance of Cultural Survival program officer Jennifer Weston, will have its public premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Saturday, January 29 at 4:00 PM at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Cultural Survival mourns the loss of Wampanoag tribal rights advocate Alice Lopez, who passed away at the young age of 49. Please read Alice's family's obituary below.
In an article posted on the websites of the Broward and Miami New Times, journalist Jean Friedman-Rudovsky picks up where our Global Response campaign left off: she exposes the emptiness of Walmart’s claim that its “Love, Earth” gold jewelry comes from socially and environmentally responsible mines and manufacturers.
At the White House Tribal Nations Conference December 15, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the United States would "lend its support" to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. "The aspirations it affirms," he said, "including the respect for the institutions and rich cultures of Native peoples, are one we must always seek to fulfill. . . I want to be clear: what matters far more than words, what matters far more than any resolution or declaration, are actions to match those words. And that’s what this conference is about.
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.
