By Angel Ferreira (Payayá, CS Intern)
At Volta Grande do Xingu, Brazil, two Indigenous communities, the Arara da Volta Grande and the Yudjá, continue to defend their ancestral territories against mounting external pressures. For the Yudjá, their name carries profound significance: it affirms their sovereignty and enduring relationship with the Xingu River, a bond that shapes their identity, culture, and way of life.
By Angel Ferreira (Payayá, CS Intern)
On July 10-12, 2026, the Payayá Territory, located in the municipality of Utinga, the gateway to Chapada Diamantina in Brazil, became the epicenter of ancestral communication and resistance for Indigenous Peoples. The 1st Meeting of Indigenous Youth Communicators of Bahia brought together leaders, Elders, youth from various ethnic groups, and partner organizations with a clear objective: to strengthen the defense of their territories through communication.
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)
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.