On March 24, 2021, The Hill convened policymakers and national security experts for an in-depth discussion on the intersection of our national security priorities and the global loss of nature. Cultural Survival's Executive Director Galina Angarova (Buryat) discusses the important role Indigenous Peoples play in protecting biodiversity, practices rooted in traditional knowledge.

Several have said, “healing the land begins with healing the people.” What does this mean and where do we begin? How do we approach climate action through an intersectional and holistic lens?

How did the climate movement get to where we are today? How have local movements played a role and how can they be in better service to global justice movements? What is the role of ethical storytelling and what happens after climate visioning?

What is the current state of national and global climate policy? What does organizing and resistance look like? What are the limitations of political advocacy and where should we focus our energy moving forward?

Indigenous Peoples are heavily represented among migrant farmworkers in the United States, and they are highly impacted by COVID-19, due to the exclusion of undocumented people from most benefits, as well as other structural inequities in access to health and other resources that affect both documented and undocumented people. Watch this panel held by Cultural Survival in partnership with International Funders for Indigenous Peoples. 

Hear about how local, Indigenous knowledge, and ancestral ways are used to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic to heal and to rebuild and how traditional agriculture and Indigenous agroecology ensure food sovereignty and food security in the short and long term.

Panelists: Million Belay, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, General Coordinator

Tui Shortland (Māori), Awatea Organics, Founder

Jesús Antonio Guagivioy (Kamentsá), FUNSEVIPAZ, Coordinator

Indigenous Peoples are disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Learn about need to present information disaggregated by Indigenous Peoples. Hear about Indigenous-led efforts to map COVID-19 in Indigenous communities in the USA, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico.

Join us for a discussion on how Indigenous cultures and knowledge continue to be appropriated and exploited for profit. Topics covered will include exploitations of Indigenous arts and designs, traditional medicine, food, and imagery.

Join @CulturalSurvival @IFIPphilanthropy @justicefunders @NoVoFoundation @ndncollective [Sixth-world.com] for this important conversation on #Indigenizingphilathropy and how Indigenous women are leading the way towards this transformation.