By Ariel Iannone Román

By Ariel Iannone Román

By First Peoples Worldwide
 

The Christopher Columbus statue in Waterfront Park, photograph by Matt Kieffer.

By Phillippa Pitts

By Somaya Jimenez 

On July 3, 2020, Indigenous land and treaty defenders held protests on the Black Hills near Mount Rushmore in response to a Trump rally hosted on the sacred Indigenous land without obtaining free, prior and informed consent of local Indigenous people. 
 

Cultural Survival joins Indian Country in celebrating the long-overdue retirement of the racist team name and mascot as the Washington football team’s identity and branding. We are encouraged by progress being made on the national front and hope that other national sports teams such as the Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Chiefs, and Cleveland Indians take immediate steps in the same direction.
 

By Erica Belfi. Beadwork and photo by Wapahkesis.

By Phillippa Pitts

In 1852, abolitionist and formerly enslaved American Frederick Douglass posed a question to the audience who gathered to hear him celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence. “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is constant victim… This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”

By Erica Belfi
 

On June 5, 2020, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in Massachusetts celebrated a victory in federal courts. The decision from a Washington D.C. district court stated that a 2018 decision by the U.S.

“Sí han venido aquí a ayudarme, están perdidendo su tiempo. Pero si han venido porque su liberación está atada con la mía, entonces déjenos trabajar juntos.” --Lilla Watson, Activista Indígena Australia (Murri)

Saludos comunidad de Cultural Survival,