By Akash Poyam  (Gond/Koitur, CS Fellow)

By Gregory Jones (Shawnee)

By Omar Challah, Executive Director, Jamii Action Centre (JAC)

Jamii Action Centre has launched JAC FM, a community-owned radio station in Kwale County, Kenya. With this new station, we’re advancing efforts towards providing a platform for the Mijikenda People, a group that has been historically underrepresented in mainstream media.

By Kake Kinere (Khwe)

By Elisa Rebeiro (CS Intern)

From their traditional territories, three Cultural Survival Indigenous Youth Fellows lead community-based initiatives that strengthen identity, language, and collective life. Through care for the land, art, and the transmission of ancestral knowledge, their projects weave possible futures where identity, language, and community life can flourish.
 

Dr. Ruth H. Matamoros-Mercado (Miskitu) is a scholar and Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography & Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From an interdisciplinary perspective, her work bridges law, geography, and Indigenous studies to understand and raise awareness of the struggles for land, community resistance, and environmental justice in Central America. Originally from the northern Moskitia region of Nicaragua, Dr. Matamoros-Mercado brings to her research a perspective deeply rooted in the lived experience of the Miskitu people.

By Cristina Verán

By Phoebe Farris (Powhatan-Pamunkey)

By Sukanto Barman (Barman, CS Intern)

Indigenous women in remote areas of Bangladesh uphold traditional values while contributing to their families and the nation's broader society in their own way. Their presence is now everywhere, including education, literature, culture, the economy, and community development. Yet, their struggles and contributions remain unrecognized.
 

The Indigenous Communities of the Thakurgaon District 

By Maya Lazzaro (Quechua, CS Staff) 

By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)