Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund provides small grants designed to support Indigenous Peoples’ community advocacy and development projects. Since 2007, the Fund has provided nearly $2.6 million in grants and technical assistance to over 400 Indigenous-led projects in 65 countries around the world.
Cultural Survival's 2019 Indigenous Youth Community Media Fellows are hard at work. The Fellowship Project aims to support young Indigenous leaders between the ages of 16-26, who are committed and eager to learn about technology, program development, journalism, community radio, media, and Indigenous Peoples’ rights advocacy.
Cultural Survival recently visited one of our Keepers of the Earth Fund Grant Partners, The San Youth Network (SYNET) in Botswana.
By Jesus Antonio Juagivioy
By Juan Solano
Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund is supporting Instituto Superior Pedagógico “Quilloac” Bilingüe Intercultural’s project on strengthening the ancestral language Kichwa Kañari through the use of interactive materials, including mobile apps designed for children ages 3 to 5.
Por Olindo Nastacuaz Pascal
Ampara Su 90.7 FM es la radio comunitaria del Pueblo Awá de Ecuador. En lengua Awápit, Ampara Su quiere decir “cuatro mundos” que son muy significativos pues representan la cosmovisión Indígena Awá. Los cuatro mundos representan el mundo de los seres pequeños que viven bajo la tierra; el mundo de los seres humanos que viven sobre la tierra; el de los espíritus que ya estan muertos y han dejado el mundo de los vivos; y el último, el mundo del Creador, el grann espírito.
By Olindo Nastacuaz Pascal
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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)
Foto: Pobladores juntan afuera de la Comisaria de Policia en Totonicapan, Guatemala. (credito: FGER)
Read English version here.
El 12 de Noviembre 2018, dos mujeres comunicadoras Mayas K’iche’s fueron arrestadas en Totonicapán, un departamento con mayoría de población Maya (90%).
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