By Kim Maida
President Trump illegal decision to shrink the Bears Ears Monument on December 5, 2017, reversing the Obama administration’s designation of Bears Ears as a National Monument in Utah, is an attack on Tribal sovereignty and self-determination and a measure that is continuing the Trump administration’s discriminatory treatment of Native Peoples in the United States.
For the first time in recent history, Governor Charles Baker proclaimed November Native American Heritage Month in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
It is with great sadness we mourn the loss of Sarah W. Fuller, the chair of Cultural Survival’s board of directors. Sarah was a champion for Cultural Survival and a generous and committed benefactor. Sarah often spoke of her deep commitment to Cultural Survival’s stewardship stemming from her relationship with and admiration for our co-founders David Maybury-Lewis' and his wife Pia’s work with Indigenous Peoples.