By Phoebe Farris (Powhatan-Pamunkey)
By Phoebe Farris (Powhatan-Pamunkey)
Marcus Briggs-Cloud (Maskoke), Ph.D., is a language revitalizer, scholar, musician and co-founder of Ekvn-Yefolecv (ee-gun yee-full-lee-juh): an off-grid, climate-positive, income-sharing ecovillage comprised of Indigenous Maskoke People who, after 180 years of displacement, returned to their homelands for the revitalization of their language and culture, and commitment to ecologically regenerative lifeways. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, he has a PhD in interdisciplinary ecology from the University of Florida’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment where his work intersected ecology, linguistics, genetics, ecofeminism and liberation theology. Marcus received awards for his Maskoke hymn album Pum Vculvke Vrakkuecetv, and in 2012 served as composer/choir director for the Vatican canonization liturgy with Pope Benedict XVI for Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. He is partnered to Tawna Little (Maskoke) and they have two children, Nokos-Afvnoke and Hemokke, with whom Marcus enjoys speaking exclusively in the Maskoke language.
By Chad Valdez (Diné)
By Gwendolyn Gay L. Gaongen
Sagada Community Media Network's radio station, Radyo Sagada 104.7 FM, has seen a boost thanks to a year-long project called "Iyebkas mo, Ibikas ko." Funded by Cultural Survival's Indigenous Media Fund, the initiative ran from July 2023 to April 2024 and focused on enhancing radio communication skills and creating content specifically for Indigenous communities.
By Lucas Martins (Quilombola) with contributions from Lurdes Santos Martins and Geralda C. Soares
(Translation from Portuguese and revision by Edson Krenak)
“Physical slavery may have ended, but the torture continues in different forms.”
By Community Radio Nasa Stereo
The Nasa community is located in the ancestral territory of Toribio, Cauca, Colombia, comprised of three Indigenous reservations Tacueyo, San Francisco, and Toribio. 96% of its population is from the Nasa Indigenous People and the remaining 4% is recognized as mestizo or as part of other Indigenous Peoples, mainly Guambianos. The Nasa Indigenous People carry out resistance actions articulated from communication for the defense of the territory, the care of life, and the strengthening of cultural identity.
By Brandi Morin (Cree/Iroquois)
The land guardian knows the intricate layout of his territory inside out. Mike Forbister (Ojibwe), like his father and grandfather before him, has memorized every vein of the complex English-Wabigoon River systems and navigates every nearby backroad and old hunting trail with ease. Together, with his colleague, Robby Williamson Jr. (Ojibwe), they spend their days monitoring the territory of their homelands at Grassy Narrows First Nation in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.
By Bryan Bixcul (Maya Tz’utujil, CS Staff)
Cultural Survival condemns the escalation of violence by the Israeli armed forces against the Palestinian people. Far from seeking peaceful mechanisms to bring the conflict to an end, the Israeli government has dramatically scaled its military actions up.
By Miriam Abel (CS Intern)
Westwin Elements, the city of Lawton, and the state of Oklahoma are moving forward with a cobalt, nickel, and manganese refinery on ancestral lands of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes without their Free, Prior and Informed Consent.
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.