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By Laura Harvey (CS Intern)
By Laura Harvey (CS Intern)
Cultural Survival joins in calls for action to implement recommendations of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
By Saché Primeaux-Shaw (Ponca, Yankton-Dakota, Seminole and Chickasaw Freedman)
By Freya Abbas
By Jess Cherofsky (CS STAFF)
“We are caribou people. Caribou are not just what we eat; they are who we are. They are in our stories and songs and the whole way we see the world. Caribou are our life. Without caribou we wouldn’t exist.” -Sarah James, Gwich’in Elder
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Contact: Bernadette Demientieff,
bernadette@
In October 2019, Cultural Survival submitted a report on the state of Indigenous human rights in the United States as part of the 36th Session of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review, a process by which UN member States have the opportunity to review fellow States’ human rights records and make recommendations.
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.