Today is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (August 9). Every day, we honor the sovereignty, richness, and beauty of Indigenous Peoples, languages, and lifeways.
Today is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (August 9). Every day, we honor the sovereignty, richness, and beauty of Indigenous Peoples, languages, and lifeways.
By Koohan Paik-Mander
By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Intern)
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)
The Keepers of the Earth Fund (KOEF) is proud to announce our 2025 partnerships with Indigenous communities. At Cultural Survival, we value cultivating long-term relationships with our partners.
By Diana Ramírez León (Hñähñu)
Axä Jua, ma tuhu Diana Ramírez León, un di bi dui ha hñahñu hai, dra munts’a häi ne di hñä, ma gütañ’u ra tuhu b’üi ri hnini ne di öde ha ra n’a nthebe hñu ma de fm Ximhai ne ra hñahñu hai ne ra Batha ra Bothahi, Hidalgo México.
Why are Indigenous Peoples occupying Fazenda Cristal?
To protect their last water sources from lithium mining, after companies and governments had ignored their pleas for years.
Water = Life, Lithium = Destruction
Mining in the Jequitinhonha Valley dries up rivers and poisons the land, violating the rights of the Pankararu and Pataxó Peoples, whose survival depends on these waters.
They stand on the frontlines!
Keepers of the Earth Fund 2025 Call for Projects in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa
Submission Deadline: August 22, 2025
By Georges Theodore Dougnon (Dogon, CS Staff)
Several political sectors from the center and right—primarily aligned with agribusiness, and mining interests—pushed through the approval of Bill 2.159/2021 in the Brazilian Federal Congress during the early hours of Thursday, July 17, 2025. The bill passed by a vote of 267 to 116 and is being condemned by more than 350 Indigenous and civil society organizations as the most significant environmental setback in Brazil since at least the 1980s.
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.