By Saché Primeaux-Shaw (Ponca, Yankton-Dakota, Seminole and Chickasaw Freedman)

Image courtesy of mn.gov. 

By Freya Abbas
 

By Jess Cherofsky (CS STAFF)

“We are caribou people. Caribou are not just what we eat; they are who we are. They are in our stories and songs and the whole way we see the world. Caribou are our life. Without caribou we wouldn’t exist.”  -Sarah James, Gwich’in Elder
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 

Contact: Bernadette Demientieff, 
bernadette@gwichinsteering.com, 907-458-8264 

Gwich’in Steering Committee Responds to Trump’s Sale of Sacred Lands in the Arctic Refuge  

In October 2019, Cultural Survival submitted a report on the state of Indigenous human rights in the United States as part of the 36th Session of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review, a process by which UN member States have the opportunity to review fellow States’ human rights records and make recommendations. 
 

By Erica Belfi

By Phoebe Farris 

By Kerstin Sabene  
                                                                         

On Saturday, October 12th, Chali'Naru Dones of the United Confederation of Taino People, stands atop the plinth where the decapitated statue of Christopher Columbus once stood, on the Boston waterfront. The crowd responded, "City by city, town by town, Christopher Columbus must come down!" photo: Claire Gosselin / Mass Peace Action.
 

By David Detmold