Por Elvis Walter Panduro Ruiz
By Jess Cherofsky
Cultural Survival is grateful to Miryam Yataco, Roger Mondaluisa Sinuiri, Ronin Suarez, and Wendy Pineda Ortiz for the interviews.
“Our medicinal plants save lives”
Indigenous Peoples are heavily represented among migrant farmworkers in the United States, and they are highly impacted by COVID-19, due to the exclusion of undocumented people from most benefits, as well as other structural inequities in access to health and other resources that affect both documented and undocumented people. Watch this panel held by Cultural Survival in partnership with International Funders for Indigenous Peoples.
Ceará Association FEPOINCE - Tremembé and Suruí Peoples (Brazil)
By Laura Hobson Herlihy
“We have nothing to celebrate with the state oppression and pandemic, but we are sending a message to the youth to continue fighting for our rights in the name of the ancestors,” says Reynaldo Francis, Yatama Miskitu leader.
By Edson Krenak Naknanuk
Join Cultural Survival and International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP) for a webinar: Understanding the Realities of Indigenous Migrant Farmworkers in the Time of COVID-19
August 26, 2020
2:00pm EST/ 11:00am PST
Live on Facebook
La Alianza Centroamericana de Medios Indígenas y Alternativos, compuesta por tres organizaciones: Cultural Survival, EntreMundos y la Red Centroamericana de Radios Comunitarias Indígenas (que representa a 60 estaciones de radio en los siete países centroamericanos) busca contribuir a democracias efectivas que brinden información adecuada y precisa al público por medio de la investigación de cuestiones que afectan a los Pueblos Indígenas; la presentación de sus perspectivas y el análisis de temas e historias que representan a Centroamérica; y la comunicación con los Pueblos Indígenas sobre s
Sinangoe is a small community formed by up to 200 A’l Cofan people, who live in the north of the Ecuadorian Amazon. In 2017, Asentamiento Ancentral Cofan de Sinangoe (The Ancestral Township of Cofan in Sinangoe) decided to form the Community Guards, a group dedicated to monitoring 50,000 hectares of their ancestral territory and identifying outsiders mining gold, deforesting, killing animals, and poisoning rivers.
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.