Por Demetria Basurto Silva, mujer Indígena Me´phaa integrante del Colectivo de Radio Chilate
Por Demetria Basurto Silva, mujer Indígena Me´phaa integrante del Colectivo de Radio Chilate
By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Intern)
In the southern Rift Valley of Kenya, beyond the steaming geothermal fields, fenced-off national parks, and margins of Lake Naivasha (Enaiposha), lies Narasha, a semi-arid landscape home to the Maasai people for generations. Today, this land is a battleground where Indigenous survival, spiritual identity, and environmental justice are being relentlessly contested.
May 5 is commemorated as National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls/ People/ Relatives. The day became recognized in 2017 when Montana Senators Steve Daines and Jon Tester responded to the murder of Hanna Harris on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, as well as the cumulation of other murders and abductions of Native women and girls.
By Tia-Alexi Roberts (Narragansett, CS Staff)
May 5 is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls/People/Relatives (MMIWG/MMIP/MMIR), a day dedicated to honoring the lives lost and demanding justice.
On May 3, World Press Freedom Day, we are excited to announce Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Journalism Fellowship, supported by the Indigenous Community Media Fund. The Fellowship aims to support Indigenous journalists, communicators, and broadcasters to investigate and report on pressing environmental and social issues impacting their respective Indigenous communities. This initiative focuses on environmental justice, climate change, and the impacts of transition mineral mining.
On April 21-May 2, 2025, the 24th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) took place.
Par Véronique Wanyema Saleh, coordinatrice de Femmes Pymees
Dans la période du 15 Septembre 2023 au 15 Juillet 2024, l’organisation FEPA a exécuté un projet dénommé « Projet d’accompagnement des peuples pygmées de la province du Sud Kivu sur le plaidoyer non violent de leurs droits violés à travers l’exploitation minière dans leurs villages respectifs » en faveur des peuples autochtones pygmées vivant dans la province du Sud Kivu en République démocratique du Congo avec l’appuis financier de Cultural Survival.
Since 2010, 11 Inga and Kamëntsá communities in the Sibundoy Valley and Mocoa, Colombia, have denounced the presence of mining megaprojects in their ancestral territory. In 2014, a mining megaproject was stopped through multiple actions, including communication. With support from the Keepers of the Earth Fund in 2024, Tabanok Audiovisual School received a grant to carry out a training in audiovisual tools and to produce a short documentary film on the Amazonian Andean Foothills, where an open-pit mining megaproject is being developed.
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
By Karma Rinji Sherpa, Station Manager, Radio Kairan 96.4 FM, Ramechhap, Nepal
Radio Kairan, a beacon of community radio in a remote village of Ramechhap district, Nepal, has successfully addressed a major challenge: updating outdated equipment that was hindering quality broadcasting. With support from the Cultural Survival Indigenous Community Media Fund, the station has been revitalized, allowing it to effectively serve listeners in their mother tongues of Sunuwar, Tamang, Sherpa, as well as Nepali.
By Feza Christine, reporter at UPADE Radio Communautaire d'Itombwe (RCI)
In the mining regions of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, the allure of easy money has created a breeding ground for sexual exploitation, especially targeting young Indigenous girls. The influx of cash from mining activities has led to a surge in predatory behavior, with miners and mining company employees using their newfound wealth to lure vulnerable girls into exploitative relationships.
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.