By Dev Kumar Sunuwar
In March 2011, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, hit and caused the loss of thousands of human lives, and destroyed infrastructure including communication facilities. The chaos affected not only for victims, but also relief workers by interrupting communication channels among them.
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
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.
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.
