By Rebecca Kirkpatrick (CS Intern)

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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)

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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@gwichinsteering.com, 907-458-8264 

Gwich’in Steering Committee Responds to Trump’s Sale of Sacred Lands in the Arctic Refuge  

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. 
 

By Erica Belfi