By Lucas Martins (Quilombola) with contributions from Lurdes Santos Martins and Geralda C. Soares
(Translation from Portuguese and revision by Edson Krenak)
“Physical slavery may have ended, but the torture continues in different forms.”
Por Edson Krenak (Krenak, CS Staff)
Por Edson Krenak (Krenak, CS Staff)
By Edson Krenak (Krenak, CS Staff)
By Edson Krenak (Krenak, CS Staff)
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
23rd Session
New York, April 15-26, 2024
Theme 5(g): Thematic dialogues, including on the financing of Indigenous Peoples’ work and participation in the context of, inter alia, development, climate, environment and biodiversity
Presented by Jurandir Seridiwê Xavante, representing the Xavante Associations Warã, Eténhiritipa, Pimentel Barbosa, Ö'a'a, Mobilization of Indigenous Peoples of the Cerrado (MOPIC) and Cultural Survival
February 21 is International Mother Language Day. It was first proclaimed in 1952 as "Language Movement Day" by Dhaka University students in Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) who protested the suppression of their Bengali language. Police and military forces opened fire, killing many young people in attendance.
By Edson Krenak (Krenak, CS Staff)
Content Note: The following includes disturbing information on violence against Indigenous Peoples
Content Note: The following includes disturbing information on violence against Indigenous Peoples.
In November 2023, the University of California Network for Human Rights and Digital Fact-finding of the University of California, in partnership with Cultural Survival, published a Story Map on Indigenous land defenders who have been killed in Brazil.
To the Esteemed Members of the Comissão do Conselho Nacional de Educação Escolar Indígena (CNEEI) and other MEC Commissions,
We express our support for the full participation of Universidade Pluriétnica Indígena Aldeia Maracanã and its scholars in the deliberations and discussions with the MEC Commission concerning the establishment of an Indigenous university in Brazil.
By Edson Krenak (Krenak, 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.