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Entre febrero y mayo de 2019, Cultural Survival ha otorgado pequeñas subvenciones para apoyar a comunidades Indígenas a que inicien, continúen o finalicen los trámites para la consecución de una concesión para usar una frecuencia radioeléctrica en la banda FM o AM en México.

Cultural Survival es una organización Indígena sin fines de lucro que apoya iniciativas de radios comunitarias Indígenas en diferentes partes del mundo con subvenciones que puedan fortalecer las capacidades de éstas importantes plataformas de comunicación y que sirvan como medios de información, opinión, educación, cultura e idiomas de los Pueblos Indígenas desde sus propias filosofías, historia, derechos y anhelos.

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by John Ahni Schertow, reposted with permission from Intercontinental Cry
 

This month, the Yurok Tribal Council voted unanimously in favor of a resolution establishing the rights of the Klamath River.

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.

By Emilee Martichenko

Towering above the landscape of the island of Hawai'i is the breathtaking Mauna Kea. With a perpetual blanket of snow crowning its peak this mountain rises 13,796 ft (4,205 m) above sea level achieving the title of tallest mountain in the Pacific.

Below the surface of the ocean, however, Mauna Kea stretches downward for another 19,700 ft making its total height approximately 35,000 ft (10,210 m) and earning it the honor of being the world’s tallest mountain (even defeating Mount Everest).

By John McPhaul

Fear still reigns in Indigenous country after the murder of Bribri Indigenous leader Sergio Rojas, who was shot and killed on March 18, 2019, while he slept in the small village of Yeri in the Salitre Indigenous Territory, in southwestern Costa Rica.

By Dave Courchene 
 

This article is an excerpt from a presentation given by the author at the National Climate Change Science and Knowledge Priorities Workshop hosted by Environment Canada at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa on February 21, 2019.

As we reflect on the current issue of climate change, we must be prepared to understand the root of this reality.

"People without Mother Nature can no longer live."

The Union of Yagé Doctors of the Colombian Amazon is a group of spiritual authorities from Inga, Siona, Cofán, Kamentsá, and Coreguaje Peoples. The communities represented in UMIYAC inhabit the southwestern region of the Colombian Amazon 22 resguardos, or legally recognized Indigenous territories, and numerous trails and villages located in ancestral lands in the Departments of Putumayo, Caquetá, and Cauca.

"For life, there must be corn and Mother Earth, but Mother Earth must be healthy." - Carmen Lozano (Kichwa) Ecuador

The 4th International Indigenous Peoples Corn Conference, "For Our Ancestral Rights, We Protect and Guarantee Our Food Sovereignty and That of Our Future Generations," took place on March 7 - 8, 2019, in the community of Vicente Guerrero, Tlaxcala, Mexico. Over 75 participants from different Indigenous communities from the Americas shared their experiences, challenges, and solutions about living with and cultivating corn.