Leadership from three Cherokee nations came together last week to mark the opening of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ Kituwah Academy, a language immersion school for preschool through fifth grade students located in Cherokee, North Carolina. 

Thanks in part to Cultural Survival's efforts, both appropriations committees of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives have recommended a fourfold increase for endangered Native American languages funding. 

After a week of marches and road blockades, Ecuador's national indigenous movement and the government of President Rafael Correa have initiated talks.

On Monday afternoon, a delegation of about 150 representatives from the three regional organizations of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) attended a meeting with the President and his cabinet in Quito.

Cultural Survival will attend the grand opening of the Eastern Band of Cherokee's language immersion school, New Kituwah Academy, on October 7 near Cherokee, North Carolina. New Kituwah Academy will house Cherokee language preschool and kindergarten classrooms, serving 2 - 5 year olds. The students, who already speak English as their first language, will study English as a discrete subject area, but will be taught all other curriculum content in Cherokee. Eastern Cherokee is an endangered language, with 300 remaining speakers, most over age 50.

The National Native Language Revitalization Summit that Cultural Survival co-organized this May was by almost any measure, a great success. Nearly 300 people from across Indian Country gathered for three days of eduction, advocacy, and celebration. Read more.