The Southernmost part of Africa comes alive every year on the 2nd of January, and 2017 was certainly no exception.The Cape Minstrel Festival is an annual celebration that takes place in the mother city of South Africa, Cape Town.

​​​​​​​“It is never about resolving differences and working together. Never! It is always about India and China,” mourns an elder from Siskin village as he crosses a bridge close to the border of India and China. The Adi community collectively weaves these bamboo bridges every year across the pristine Siang River.

In October, I visited the the Q’eqchi’ community of Nimlajacoc to support them in their application for funds from Cultural Survival’s Community Media Grants Project, what I found was an organized community who are a model of Indigenous resilience. 

Cultural Survival is pleased to announce the launch of our Strengthening Indigenous Women’s Leadership in Community Radio Initiative. The initiative will support a cohort of Indigenous women in Central America through a series of training and network-building workshops enabling participants to gain leadership and practical skills in investigative journalism, community radio production, and technical equipment operation.

A tan sólo unos días de que Daniel Ortega vuelva a coronarse Presidente de Nicaragua por tercera vez consecutiva, y esta vez acompañado nada más y nada menos que de su esposa, Rosario Murillo como vicepresidenta, y de quien se piensa y se dice es la que lleva las riendas del poder.

Daniel Ortega will continue in his third consecutive term as President of Nicaragua after being reelected on November 6, 2016, this time accompanied by his wife, Rosario Murillo, as his Vice-President.

Cultural Survival and Toronto based WACC are pleased to announce the first grantee of our Indigenous Community Radio Grants Project partnership. A new radio start up, Radio Xyaab’ Tzuul Taq’a (“Voice of the Mountains” in Q’eqchi) of the Maya Q’eqchi community in El Estor, Guatemala was chosen because of the immediate need to strengthen broadcast infrastructure and systems,  and the start up’s promise for continued success.

On December 10-11, and on December 16-18, a local Cambridge-based nonprofit will host two craft festivals highlighting Indigenous art from around the world. Among them, artists from various regions of Peru will participate. Their art will showcase the rich diversity of Peruvian Indigenous cultures, with crafts ranging from hand-carved wooden scenes called retablos, to silver jewelry inspired by pre-Columbian textiles, to music featuring Andean winds and strings.

The department of the Army will not approve an easement that will allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe. The following statement was released by Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II.

Over 400 civil society organisations from more than 50 countries today issued a joint open letter to the seventeen banks providing a US$2.5 billion project loan to Dakota Access LLC. The letter, endorsed by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, demands that the banks involved immediately halt all further disbursements of the loan and require the project sponsor to stop construction work until all outstanding issues are resolved to the full satisfaction of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The letter and the full list of signatories can be found below.

Cultural Survival condemns the assassination of Guatemalan human rights defender Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima on 12 November, 2016.

On December 10-11, and on December 16-18, Indigenous artists and musicians from across the globe will come together in Boston and Cambridge for Cultural Survival’s free admission Native arts and cultures Bazaars.