Danae Laura, Bazaar Program Manager, comes to Cultural Survival from a decade of social entrepreneurship and marketing in both the natural food and wellness industries. Danae studied Social Justice and Education as a Martin Luther King Scholar at New York University, lived abroad in Ghana as a Gilman International Fellow, and was recently recognized as an emerging scholar by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society for her work at Lesley University where she is studying mindfulness as a tool for social justice. 

By Tricia Hornback, Ph.D

By Nii Gaani Aki Inini – Leading Earth Man (Dave Courchene)
Paintings by  Henry Guimond, Turtle Lodge. Used with permission. 

The Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim are members of the Q’anjob’al Maya of Guatemala living in diaspora in Nebraska. After years of living in Nebraska, the traditional ancestral government of the Q’anjob’al, which also includes the Akateko, Chuj, and Popti Maya Peoples, has developed a bilateral relationship with the American Indian Omaha Nation.

Join us to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day in Cambridge! Organized by United American Indians of New England, North American Indian Center of Boston, IndigenousPeoplesDayMA.org, and Cultural Survival.

By Nani Omerod

Cultural Survival se complace en anunciar su convocatoria de propuestas para el proyecto “Jóvenes Indígenas de Medios Comunitarios 2018” que apoyará a jóvenes indígenas en sus esfuerzos por desarrollar su capacidad como locutores de radio y como periodistas a través de capacitaciones específicas, visitas o intercambios con otras radios comunitarias, producción radial, conferencias, asistencia y otras oportunidades en temas de educación y capacitación.

By NARF

By John McPhaul

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.”