It is clear that the use of Native American mascots harms children. Mascots based on stereotypical ideas of Native peoples breed cultural insensitivity and misunderstanding about Native American people and our history as a nation.
It is clear that the use of Native American mascots harms children. Mascots based on stereotypical ideas of Native peoples breed cultural insensitivity and misunderstanding about Native American people and our history as a nation.
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The Raizal Youth Organization was founded by young Raizal people on a Caribbean island which is a part of Colombia, the Archipelago of San Andrés. This youth organization was created to share Raizal values to transform perspectives inside and outside the Archipelago, since the Raizal people today face a diversity of problems resulting from land loss, change of traditional lifeways, and the generation gap between the elderly and young people, which all make the protection of their culture and the ancestral territory difficult.
Cultural Survival es una organización fundada en 1972. Tiene estatus consultivo ante el Consejo Económico, Social y Cultural de Naciones Unidas. Desde su fundación, Cultural Survival se ha asociado con comunidades Indígenas en el mundo para promover sus derechos, libre determinación, y riqueza cultural en armonía con su cosmovisión y formas de vida tradicional.
“Los Pueblos Indígenas tienen el derecho de establecer sus propios medios de comunicación en sus propios idiomas y de tener acceso a todas las formas de medios no Indígenas sin discriminación”. - Declaración de la ONU sobre los derechos de los pueblos Indígenas, artículo 16.
Founded in 1972, Cultural Survival is an Indigenous Peoples’ rights organization holding consultative status with the United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Council. Since its founding, Cultural Survival has been advocating for Indigenous Peoples' rights and supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures, and political resilience.
“Indigenous Peoples have the right to establish their own media in their own languages and to have access to all forms of non-Indigenous media without discrimination.” --UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Article 16.
4th International Indigenous Peoples Corn Conference will take place in Vicente Guerrero, Tlaxcala, Mexico on March 7 & 8, 2019. It will be organized and sponsored by: the International Indian Treaty Council, Proyecto de Desarollo Rural Integral Vicente Guerrero A.C., and Asamblea de Pueblos Indígenas por la Soberanía Alimentaria en México as part of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance for Traditional Knowledge, Food Sovereignty and Climate Change.
Co-sponsored by: Cultural Survival and Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance
By Duane “Chili” Yazzie
The creation stories tell that five-fingered humankind is of the Earth. We were formed of the substance of Earth, we come from the Earth, we came out of the Earth.
Tse Wedi Elth/Unist’ot’en Camp in British Columbia, Canada is Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund grant partner. The Unist’ot’en Camp was founded in 2010 by Wet’suwet’en hereditary Chiefs. Its mission is to protect Unist’ot’en territory by re-establishing traditional Indigenous governance systems and enacting an FPIC protocol for all activities on Unist’ot’en land.
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.