By Emilee Martichenko / Photo by Karen Apricot.
By Emilee Martichenko / Photo by Karen Apricot.
By John McPhaul
The brother of slain Bribri leader Sergio Rojas Ortiz, Jose Dualok Rojas Ortiz, said that the government should immediately remove non-Indigenous settlers from Bribri land and provide a system of security to protect Indigenous people living on the land.
Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund provides small grants designed to support Indigenous Peoples’ community advocacy and development projects. Since 2007, the Fund has provided nearly $2.6 million in grants and technical assistance to over 400 Indigenous-led projects in 65 countries around the world.
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The Raizal Youth Organization was founded by young Raizal people on a Caribbean island which is a part of Colombia, the Archipelago of San Andrés. This youth organization was created to share Raizal values to transform perspectives inside and outside the Archipelago, since the Raizal people today face a diversity of problems resulting from land loss, change of traditional lifeways, and the generation gap between the elderly and young people, which all make the protection of their culture and the ancestral territory difficult.
4th International Indigenous Peoples Corn Conference will take place in Vicente Guerrero, Tlaxcala, Mexico on March 7 & 8, 2019. It will be organized and sponsored by: the International Indian Treaty Council, Proyecto de Desarollo Rural Integral Vicente Guerrero A.C., and Asamblea de Pueblos Indígenas por la Soberanía Alimentaria en México as part of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance for Traditional Knowledge, Food Sovereignty and Climate Change.
Co-sponsored by: Cultural Survival and Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance
By Duane “Chili” Yazzie
The creation stories tell that five-fingered humankind is of the Earth. We were formed of the substance of Earth, we come from the Earth, we came out of the Earth.
Tse Wedi Elth/Unist’ot’en Camp in British Columbia, Canada is Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund grant partner. The Unist’ot’en Camp was founded in 2010 by Wet’suwet’en hereditary Chiefs. Its mission is to protect Unist’ot’en territory by re-establishing traditional Indigenous governance systems and enacting an FPIC protocol for all activities on Unist’ot’en land.
By Antonio A R Ioris
“…we know that we are going and we want to be killed and buried with our ancestors here where we are today, so we ask the Government and the Federal Justice not to decree our eviction/expulsion, but we request to decree our collective death and to bury us everybody here. We ask, once and for all, to decree our decimation and total extinction, in addition to sending several tractors to dig a large hole to throw and bury our bodies.”
Letter Guarani-Kaiowá of Pyelito Kue (2012)
"I am not scared. As a Zápara woman, I will fight for my territory." -- Nema Grefa Ushigua, president of the Zápara Nation, after receiving threats in April.
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