Today, July 15, 2026, at an official side event at the 19th session of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), Xavante Warã Association, communities within Areões Indigenous Land, Mobilization of Cerrado Indigenous Peoples (MOPIC), Rede Cerrado, and Cultural Survival released the advocacy brief "Let the A'uwẽ-Xavante Keep Dreaming," combining litigation, international advocacy, and a global solidarity campaign amplifying the A’uwẽ Xavante's calls for the prot
A'uwẽ-Xavante leaders travel 9,000 kilometers from the Brazilian Cerrado to the United Nations in Geneva to ask the question behind the "green" energy boom: who pays for the world's clean transition?
GENEVA, Switzerland (July 9, 2026) — Among the A'uwẽ-Xavante people of Brazil, dreams are not metaphors. They are how knowledge travels: Elders receive songs, ceremonies, and guidance for their communities while they sleep. To dream, the Xavante say, they need their territory whole.
Por Pablo Xol (Maya Q'eqchi', equipe de CS)
Narrativas artísticas convencionais frequentemente se restringem a galerias imaculadas e centros urbanos, relegando as profundas criações dos territórios indígenas a meros "artesanato". É nesse contexto de preconceito e apropriação cultural que Bepbere Pat-i Kayapó (Mẽbêngôkre Kayapó), artista do Território Indígena do Sul do Pará, Brasil, trilhou um caminho resiliente.
By Angel Yraê Ferreira (Payayá, CS Intern)
By Angel Yraê Ferreira (Payayá, CS Intern)
By Angel Yraê Ferreira (Payayá, CS Intern)
By Edson Krenak (Krenak, CS Staff)
By Angel Yraê Ferreira (Payayá, CS Intern)
Por Djalma Ramalho (Aranã Caboclo, Equipe de CS)
Que tipos de conhecimentos precisamos para enfrentar a crise climática? Sabemos que uma ciência que apenas mede a destruição não é suficiente. Precisamos de conhecimentos que sejam capazes de dialogar com saberes indígenas, quilombolas, e tradicionais, dos povos que há séculos vem cuidando do nosso planeta.
By Maya Lazzaro (Quecha, 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.