By Antonio A R Ioris
“…we know that we are going and we want to be killed and buried with our ancestors here where we are today, so we ask the Government and the Federal Justice not to decree our eviction/expulsion, but we request to decree our collective death and to bury us everybody here. We ask, once and for all, to decree our decimation and total extinction, in addition to sending several tractors to dig a large hole to throw and bury our bodies.”
Letter Guarani-Kaiowá of Pyelito Kue (2012)
The Indigenous Peoples Movement is a collective of Indigenous activists, organizers, tribal leaders, social entrepreneurs, artists, educators, innovators, youth leaders, and change-makers who are working to build the collective power of Indigenous Peoples, communities and Nations.
By John McPhaul
The Costa Rican government in mid November 2018 named Guillermo Rodríguez Romero, a Bribri attorney from the Talamanca village of Suretka, as ambassador to Bolivia. Rodríguez, the first of three Indigenous Costa Ricans who have joined the ranks of Costa Rica’s attorneys, speaks both Spanish and Bribri and has 40 years of experience defending the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Rodríguez has distinguished himself especially in promoting the creation of a department of Indigenous education within the Department of Education.
INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES FORUM ON CLIMATE CHANGE
OPENING PLENARY STATEMENT
24TH CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES OF THE UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE, (COP 24)
DECEMBER 2, 2018, KATOWICE POLAND
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Every year, on December 1st, the international community observes a day that is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic.
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Cultural Survival aims to strengthen Indigenous women radio journalists’ leadership and improve their participation in decision-making spaces. Three years ago, we initiated a project "for a more visible world in an invisible world", a process of capacity building and accompaniment in community radio journalism with an intercultural approach to gender adapted to the reality of Central America. In late 2018, we extended the project to Colombia and Mexico.
Consejo Consultivo Internacional de Jóvenes Indígenas
Introducción
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (CS STAFF)
"I am not scared. As a Zápara woman, I will fight for my territory." -- Nema Grefa Ushigua, president of the Zápara Nation, after receiving threats in April.
Zyania Roxana Santiago Aguilar (Zapotec), seventeen, is one of Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Community Media Youth Fellows from Radio Calenda, La Voz de Valle in Oaxaca, México (pictured above in center). Zyania was only three years old when she began at Radio Calenda, leading the creation of children’s program until she was 12. In 2007, she won second place in the "AMARC-60" anniversary contest.
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.