Around a hundred people gathered in Columbus Circle in Syracuse today to call for Syracuse and Onondaga County to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
The celebration of Columbus Day for the past century in the US has perpetuated a narrative that glorifies a Eurocentric world view, while allowing us to ignore a history of violence and oppression towards Indigenous individuals throughout Turtle Island/Abya Yala, lands which were mistakenly referred to by Columbus as "The New World."
#Honor1851Treaty Music Campaign Rallies Artists In Support Of Native Rights, Featuring KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, TA’KAYIA BLANEY, GARY FARMER, DAKOTA ROMERO, ROBERT MIRABAL, RAYE ZARAGOZA, & MORE
Dear Members of the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Education,
Cultural Survival is an Indigenous rights advocacy organization based in Cambridge, MA, since 1972. We urge you to support bill MA S291, An Act to Prohibit Native American Mascots by Public Schools in the Commonwealth, which will be heard on June 6, 2017.
Banning Native American Mascots is the right choice for the state of Massachusetts, which prides itself on being a respectful and safe state for people of all backgrounds and ethnicities, as well as a state that upholds human rights.
Take Action to Protect Bears Ears National Monument
Members of Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Ute Mountain Ute, & Uintah Ouray Ute Tribes are leading a call to protect the Bears Ears national monument in Southern Utah in the face of Donald Trump’s threats to remove its newly designated protected status.
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.