From my apartment door, I see a blue sky hovering over the tin roof of the neighboring house. I see the blended tops of coconut trees standing so close, their palms so intertwined, that it’s hard to tell where one ends and the next begins. I see lined telephone poles and a busy road down to my right, the bus stop and grocery store across the street, and wild chickens running around below. They almost always seem to be in a hurry, but I never know where they’re going.

Según informes de ONU Mujeres, una de cada tres mujeres ha sufrido algún tipo de violencia sexual o física. La violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas ocurre en diferentes contextos, incluyendo en tiempos de paz y conflicto, desastres naturales, crisis humanitarias y pandemias. Puede ocurrir dentro de la familia o comunidad, o fuera en la sociedad en general. 

Cada 25 de noviembre se conmemora el Día Internacional para Eliminar la Violencia contra la Mujer. Todo tipo de violencia (física, psicológica, sexual, económica, entre otras) contra mujeres y niñas es una violación a los derechos humanos.  Cuando se trata de mujeres indígenas, las vulneraciones tienen una doble intersecionalidad: étnica y de género.

Long before the arrival of the settlers, the land which we call Turtle Island was bountiful of rich foods, clean water, and a vast amount of biodiversity. Cornfields wrapped around the coastline for miles, schools of fish swam so thick, and trees were so healthy they produced many nuts and fruits. Our ancestors celebrated thanksgiving about 13 times a year. In the Northeast, the first thanksgiving is the Strawberry Thanksgiving as it is the first berry of the season.

With Native American Heritage Month well underway and Thanksgiving/National Day of Mourning occurring tomorrow, it is an excellent time to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ brilliance, honor and acknowledge truth in history, recognize whose land we are on, and work towards true allyship. We call upon our Cultural Survival community to learn from Indigenous Peoples and their true account of this federal holiday, confront settler mythologies of this country's history, understand how American colonialism and imperialism continue to impact Indigenous communities today, and to ta

 Reporting on week two of COP27!

The two-week 27th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP27) held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, came to a close on November 19, 2022. Cultural Survival’s Indigenous delegation of six was on the ground reporting directly on the most important issues concerning the climate negotiations and the implications for the rights and futures of Indigenous Peoples.

COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt | 18 November 2022

15th November 2022 | COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh
Statement by the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) 
Delivered by: Cristina Coc, Maya Q’eqchi of Belize, Central America

I am a Na Ñuu Savi (Person of the Place of Rain, Mixtec) born in Santa Maria, California, United States, to Nivi Ñuu Savi (People of the Place of Rain) who migrated there to work as farmers in the California agricultural economy. Ñuu Savi (the Place of Rain) is in Oaxaca, Puebla, and Guerrero, Mexico, where many pueblos are known by names that describe our history.