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 Peter Kitelo, Executive Director Chepkitale Indigenous People Development Project (CIPDP)
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.
By Mabel Negrete, Executive Director of IPD Philly
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.
By Mariana Campos Rivera (CS intern)
“Blessed is the water
that makes the flowers of this threatened land grow
because in the face of death it grants beauty.”
-Fredy Chicangana (Quechua), Poet
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.
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.
