By Tracy Barnett for Intercontinental Cry

A contingent of at least 1,000 Indigenous Wixárika (Huichol) people in the Western Sierra Madre are gearing up to take back their lands after a legal decision in a decade-long land dispute with neighboring ranchers who have held the land for more than a century.

By Detmer Yens Kremer

Position Available: Full-time Cultural Survival Indigenous Community Radio Grant Initiative Program Assistant- English-speaking

By Montoya Whiteman of First Nations Development Institute & Toni Plummer-Alvernaz of Montana Native Women’s Coalition (reposted from First Nations Development Institute) 

By Linda Ferrer

For immediate release:                                                                               

We at Cultural Survival support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in demanding that the United States government and the United Nations acknowledge and respond to the gross human rights and Treaty violations that have occurred from the construction of the Dakota Access crude oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has not given their Free, Prior and Informed Consent to and has outwardly opposed the Dakota Access Pipeline project, which would threaten their main water source, the Missouri River, and disturb sacred burials sites.

Por Adelfo Regino Montes, SERvicios del Pueblo Mixe

AMERICAN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
(Adopted at the third plenary session, held on June 15, 2016)

Building upon the momentum generated from the Working Groups established onMay 11 at Suffolk University Law School, this follow-up event will allow Working Groups to continue their discussions on responding to challenges identified during the state-wide listening sessions, namely, lands, ICWA, Indian arts and education. Additionally, part of event will be devoted to examining state recognition/acknowledgment.

All are welcome to attend.

Tony Coolidge

Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) won the Presidential election of Taiwan on January 16, 2016 by a large margin, earning 56.1% of the votes versus 31.0% for the runner up, Eric Chu (朱立倫). The election results signaled a turning point in Taiwan’s democracy, with the Democratic Progressive Party winning a majority of the seats in the Legislative Yuan (the lawmaking body) as well.  Tsai accepted the “will of the Taiwanese people” as a sign that citizens wanted a significant change from former failed policies and unfulfilled promises.