Cultural Survival se complace en presentar a nuestros jóvenes becarios de la ronda 2020 que forman parte de la Comunidad de Medios Comunitarios Indígenas, y del Programa de Subvenciones para Medios Comunitarios.
Cultural Survival se complace en presentar a nuestros jóvenes becarios de la ronda 2020 que forman parte de la Comunidad de Medios Comunitarios Indígenas, y del Programa de Subvenciones para Medios Comunitarios.
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By Alexandra Carraher-Kang
Indigenous human rights and environmental defenders are killed on a daily basis.
December 17, 2019, was the official close of the United Nations’ International Year of Indigenous Languages, which aims to draw attention to language loss and the need to strengthen and revitalize them.
By Samantha Freedman
By Laura Simpson Reeves
Yesmi Ajanel (Maya K’ich’e) comes from the highlands of Guatemala. At the age of 10, she moved from San Cristobal Totonicapan to Quetzaltenango. This change opened her eyes to the gap that society was creating between being from a city and being from a small town. Even though the distance between the two locations is only about 40 kilometers, the discrimination is part of social behavior. “For a long time, I hid my Indigenous identity to fit in but later, I realized that I was hiding my roots, my mother’s roots, and my family.
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.