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Cities and towns across Massachusetts are joining a national movement to start celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday of October. Cultural Survival has joined a coalition of groups led by Indigenous Peoples Day MA to successfully lobby for a name changes across Massachusetts.
By Phoebe Farris
TEN AT SEVEN, established in 2019, is a curatorial project that consists of an exhibition, publications, and social gatherings in the New York City home of Susan J. Weiler. In this private intimate setting, artists, scholars, and invited guests engage in discussions about the intersections of social justice activism and the arts.
By Phoebe Farris
By Chris Swartz
On August 19 and 20, 2019, the United States saw its first ever Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. There, Tribal leaders and Native organizers, including Native youth, were able to ask the nine candidates questions concerning topics such as the climate crisis, missing and murdered Indigenous women, and continuous government neglect of Native American peoples. Each candidate was individually questioned by a panel of six to eight panelists, in front of an audience of members from different Tribal Nations across the country.
By Chris Swartz
On the island of Hawaii stands the grand Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano that is about one million years old. It stands at 13,803 feet (4,207.3 meters) above sea level, and when measured from its oceanic base, it is 33,000 ft (10,000 m) tall, making it the tallest mountain in the world.
Nestled amongst the beauty of Boston’s historic coastline lies an intensifying disagreement over Long Island, one of the 34 islands comprising Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park, part of the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, and, less well known, the site of a former concentration camp and Native burial ground.
Protests near the sacred summit of Mauna Kea in Hawai’i are increasing in urgency as Native Hawaiians fight to prevent the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in the Pacific and has traditionally been the site of religious ceremonies for Native Hawaiians, or Kanaka Maoli. The telescope has been scheduled for construction for over a decade, and has been the subject of legal contestation as Free, Prior and Informed Consent has not been given by Native Hawaiians.
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.