Cultural Survival condemns the recent Trump administration decision that could take the Mashpee Wampanoag land in Massachusetts out of trust. The land, which includes 150 acres in the town of Mashpee and another 170 acres in the city of Taunton, had been established into trust as of September 2015 by the Obama administration, after years of advocacy work by the Mashpee Tribe.
In 2016, the Cambridge City Council voted unanimously to start celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day on the second Monday of October.
Documento Final del encuentro “Respetando nuestra ciencia y formas de saber: Soberanía Alimentaria y Formas de Vida Tradicional de los Pueblos Indígenas y el Cambio Climático”, en el Pueblo Zapoteco Ixtlán de Juárez, Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, México
On August 24-26, 2018, more than 60 Indigenous community members and experts gathered to discuss climate change, traditional knowledge, and food sovereignty in Ixtlán de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico, at a convening organized by Cultural Survival and the International Indian Treaty Council, "Respecting Our Traditional Science and Ways of Knowing: Indigenous Peoples’ Sovereignty, Lifeways, and Climate Change.”
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.
