On March 8, 2012 several hundred Indigenous people began a two week march across Ecuador to call attention to their protest of a large-scale open-pit copper mine. Ecuacorriente, a Chinese company, has been authorized by the Correa government to develop a mine near El Pangui, Zamora-Chinchipe Province, in the southern part of the country.
Por Sandra Peláez (Pasante de CS)
La Asociación Indígena Camentsa Shnan Wabuatmeng es una organización conformada por miembros del pueblo kamëntsá, principalmente parteras, sobanderas, sabedoras de la medicina, médicos tradicionales y aprendices, mujeres y hombres. Los kamëntsá, quienes se autodenominan “Kamuentsa Ÿentsá, Kamëntšá Biÿá” (persona de aquí, con pensamiento y lengua propia) son un Pueblo Indígena ubicado en el Valle de Sibundoy, Colombia.
Por Equipo de CS
Los derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas a sus tierras, territorios y recursos naturales constituyen la base material y espiritual de su libre determinación, identidad cultural, sistemas alimentarios, organización política y continuidad intergeneracional.
By Nichodimas Cooper (Nama, CS Journalism Fellow)
By Gregory Jones (Shawnee)
Por Mathias Tooko (Masái, becario de CS)
By Jagat Man Lama Dong, Chairperson, Indigenous Rights Foundation
The rural municipality of Umakunda, located in the ancestral homeland of the Sunuwar People, is a prime example of the disruption to communities caused by climate change. Many Sunuwar are leaving for cities because they can no longer earn a living from farming, their traditional occupation. Biren Sunuwar (Sunuwar) from Kubukasthali articulates the trend: “There is nothing in the village. It’s impossible to make a living here.”
By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Fellow)
Reconocimiento de tierra
Reconocemos que nuestra sede está en la tierra de Massachusetts, en Cambridge, MA, y agradecemos a los administradores Indígenas pasados, actuales y futuros de este territorio.
