By Ellen Moore, Earthworks
From June 10 to 13, 2025, heavy rainfall hit Obi Island in Indonesia. As a result, muddy floods submerged three villages in the Island where one of largest nickel mining companies in Indonesia, Harita Group, has been operating.
By Bryan Bixcul (Maya-Tz’utujil), SIRGE Coalition Global Coordinator
By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Intern)
“When you are no longer allowed to talk to your ancestors, to pray in your forest, to feed yourself, then you are no longer fully alive.”
—Alex Ahimbisibwe, Batwa Indigenous leader, educator, and founder of BIDO
Dear Cultural Survival Community,
By Tia-Alexi Roberts (Narragansett, CS staff)
New documentary by acclaimed journalist Brandi Morin captures Shuar Peoples' resistance to a copper mining project threatening 268 square kilometers of pristine Amazon rainforest
By Edison Andrango (Kichwa, CS Staff)
By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Intern)
A landmark land victory in Kenya becomes a global lesson in evidence-based advocacy, intergenerational wisdom, and resistance with vision.
By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Intern)
A solemn procession moved through the new city center of Kiruna, Sweden. Sámi youth and members from the Gabna and Laevas reindeer herding communities walked in silence, carrying an ackja, a traditional Sámi sled, along the path their ancestors once followed with migrating reindeer. At the heart of Europe’s transition to a so-called “green economy,” they were not celebrating progress, but mourning land already lost to a century of mining. They were also raising their voices against future exploitation.
By Ella Nathanael Alkiewicz (Labrador Inuk)
Five percent of Canada’s total population is Indigenous. Canadian Inuit, First Nations, and Métis are living, working, buying, and being alongside settlers, four-leggeds, winged-ones, and fins with the flora and fauna.
Over the past several months, violence against immigrant families and allies has been escalating in the United States of America. President Trump's agenda to massively deport thousands of undocumented immigrants under the pretext of national security has become a witch hunt driven by racism and xenophobia, primarily against the Latino and, at times, Native communities.
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
