New England's premier global Indigenous arts festival is happening online on July 25! 

By Somaya Jimenez 

On July 3, 2020, Indigenous land and treaty defenders held protests on the Black Hills near Mount Rushmore in response to a Trump rally hosted on the sacred Indigenous land without obtaining free, prior and informed consent of local Indigenous people. 
 

Cultural Survival joins Indian Country in celebrating the long-overdue retirement of the racist team name and mascot as the Washington football team’s identity and branding. We are encouraged by progress being made on the national front and hope that other national sports teams such as the Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Chiefs, and Cleveland Indians take immediate steps in the same direction.
 

By Edson Krenak Naknanuk

Calfin Lafkenche (Mapuche) works locally, nationally, and internationally to assert Indigenous human rights. He is a part of Desarrollo Intercultural Chile, serves as the Latin America coordinator of Alianza MILPA and is the coordinator for the Indigenous Minga, a collective of Indigenous leaders across Latin America. In this interview, Lafkenche reflects on the past, present, and future of Indigenous and state healthcare collaborations in Chile.

By Phillippa Pitts

Organized by Idle No More, an Indigenous rights advocacy group, Cancel Canada Day brought together scholars, poets, parents, musicians, filmmakers, and activists for a three-hour digital convening on July 1, 2020. The event, streamed on Facebook live, accompanied the in-person protests and direct actions happening simultaneously across the nation.
 

Across the world, Indigenous Peoples are turning to history and memory for solutions to today’s pandemic crisis. Among them are the Teduray and Lambangian Peoples in the Philippines, who recall the dulet, a highly transferable disease with a similar transmission profile to COVID-19.