Today marks five years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
News & Articles
|
September 13, 2012
|
|
September 13, 2012
Today marks five years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). |
|
September 10, 2012
An Ethiopian farmer could sue the British government after being evicted violently from his home as part of a villagization project that receives funding from a UK development institution. |
|
September 5, 2012
Herakles Farms has withdrawn their application to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) for their palm oil plantation in the Southwest region of Cameroon. |
|
August 22, 2012
A new bill proposed by the right-wing political party in Guatemala would criminalize the use of the radio spectrum for any actors not authorized to do so. The bill aims to take community radio stations that are fighting for legal recognition off the air. |
|
August 22, 2012
During a busy summer that included film screenings, summer youth camp sponsorships, and funding two Sauk Language apprentices’ attendance at programs like the Canadian Indigenous Languages Literacy Development Institute at the University of Alberta, Cultural Survival’s Endangered Languages Progr |
|
August 22, 2012
At the Euchee Language Project, a partner of Cultural Survival's Endangered Languages Program, second language learners and fluent elder speakers in Sapulpa, Oklahoma are already preparing to resume their fall afterschool programming, after a busy summer of field trips, a well-attended Euchee Kn |
|
August 22, 2012
More than two years had passed since Cultural Survival last visited the Arapaho Language Lodge immersion classrooms in Ethete and Arapahoe, Wyoming, and program manager Jennifer Weston was eager to meet with elder fluent speakers, tribal leaders, educators, and youth on the vast 3.2 million acre |
|
August 22, 2012
Cultural Survival’s Endangered Languages Program kicked off June with Makepeace Productions and the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project (WLRP), hosting packed screening and panel discussion of WE STILL LIVE Here: Âs Nutayuneân at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American India |
|
August 17, 2012
In 2001, change came to Calcedeaver Elementary School in Mount Vernon, Alabama. A new principal introduced a Choctaw language and culture program, and in five years, one of the worst performing schools became one of Alabama’s best. |











