El Fondo Guardianes de la Tierra (KOEF por sus siglas en inglés) es un fondo liderado por Indígenas, diseñado para apoyar los proyectos de promoción y desarrollo comunitario de los Pueblos Indígenas. Desde 2017, KOEF ha apoyado 177 proyectos en 35 países por un total de $764,317.
September 13, 2021, marks fourteen years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
By Laura Harvey (CS intern)
Angélica Ayala (Nahua)
In 2012, during the administrations of former Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and Governor Graco Ramírez Abreu, a roadwork project sponsored by the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) was approved. The project will widen a 20 kilometer highway through El Tepozteco National Park and the Ajusco-Chichinautzin Biologic Corridor into a four-lane roadway. These areas comprise an area protected by a presidential decree.
By Luna Negra* (Amuzga)
Women from the communities of Rebolledo, Los Arquitos, and Río Minas in San Pablo Cuatro Venados, Oaxaca, have organized to defend their land from a Canadian mining project installed by Arco Resources Corporation. The Zapotec women in these communities shared the story of their organization, fight, and work to continue living and planting on their lands, which were once defended by their ancestors and have always been communal.
By Amalia Pérez (Tzeltal)
Catalina has been a midwife since she was 15 years old, helping hundreds of women give birth. She is originally from the community of Samaria, in the municipality of Ocosingo, Chiapas. She was born on September 16, 1951. For Catalina, the midwife's work is to help and contribute to improving other people's lives.
Este mes tuvimos la oportunidad de realizar una entrevista en persona entre Sócrates Vásquez García (Ayuujk Jääy), Gerente del Programa de Medios Comunitarios de Cultural Survival, y Mario González Chavajay (Maya Tz’utujil), un artista de Guatemala reconocido internacionalmente que se dedica a la revitalización cultural y educación. El trabajo de Mario se encuentra en una exhibición permanente en el Museo de Arte Nativo Americano en Washington D.C. y él y sus dos hermanos han ganado elogios y reconocimiento como destacados artistas mayas de San Pedro.
By Bety Piche (Zapoteca)
Oaxaca is "the land where God never dies.” Its inhabitants know it by its great cultural and linguistic diversity. It is also a place where the complete closure of downtown businesses due to Covid-19 affected the economy of traditional handicraft artisans in the capital’s historic center.
Cultural Survival tiene el honor de anunciar la expansión de nuestro equipo de liderazgo y presentar a nuestra nueva Directora de Defensa y Política, Monica Coc Magnusson (Q'eqchi Maya). Mónica es una abogada de Belice, nacida en Laguna, Distrito de Toledo, Belice, donde reside actualmente.
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.
