Advocacy support for Indigenous Peoples
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Home Free
Darima Shagdurova is a Buryat woman from the Sayan Mountains west of Lake Baikal, Siberia. Her sturdy log house and cattle corral doesn’t have an oil pipeline running through it today, thanks to a campaign by Cultural Survival’s Global Response program.
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Victory in Mongolia
Ms. Oyunbadaam does not live like you. She is a Dukha woman, and she lives with her family in a tent in the extremely remote mountains of northern Mongolia. She and her larger clan move every few weeks with their reindeer herd in search of fresh hunting grounds and grazing, just as their ancestors have done for 3,000 years.
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Inundation
Isabel Becker is a tiny but tough Ngöbe grandmother from the village of Charco la Pava in the Changuinola River Valley in western Panama. She’s lived there all her life in a beautiful wooden house overlooking an idyllic tropical valley. Or she did, until the bulldozers knocked her house down.