By Dave Courchene
This article is an excerpt from a presentation given by the author at the National Climate Change Science and Knowledge Priorities Workshop hosted by Environment Canada at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa on February 21, 2019.
As we reflect on the current issue of climate change, we must be prepared to understand the root of this reality.
"People without Mother Nature can no longer live."
The Union of Yagé Doctors of the Colombian Amazon is a group of spiritual authorities from Inga, Siona, Cofán, Kamentsá, and Coreguaje Peoples. The communities represented in UMIYAC inhabit the southwestern region of the Colombian Amazon 22 resguardos, or legally recognized Indigenous territories, and numerous trails and villages located in ancestral lands in the Departments of Putumayo, Caquetá, and Cauca.
"For life, there must be corn and Mother Earth, but Mother Earth must be healthy." - Carmen Lozano (Kichwa) Ecuador
The 4th International Indigenous Peoples Corn Conference, "For Our Ancestral Rights, We Protect and Guarantee Our Food Sovereignty and That of Our Future Generations," took place on March 7 - 8, 2019, in the community of Vicente Guerrero, Tlaxcala, Mexico. Over 75 participants from different Indigenous communities from the Americas shared their experiences, challenges, and solutions about living with and cultivating corn.
By InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
By Emilee Martichenko / Photo by Karen Apricot.
By John McPhaul
The brother of slain Bribri leader Sergio Rojas Ortiz, Jose Dualok Rojas Ortiz, said that the government should immediately remove non-Indigenous settlers from Bribri land and provide a system of security to protect Indigenous people living on the land.
Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund provides small grants designed to support Indigenous Peoples’ community advocacy and development projects. Since 2007, the Fund has provided nearly $2.6 million in grants and technical assistance to over 400 Indigenous-led projects in 65 countries around the world.
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The Raizal Youth Organization was founded by young Raizal people on a Caribbean island which is a part of Colombia, the Archipelago of San Andrés. This youth organization was created to share Raizal values to transform perspectives inside and outside the Archipelago, since the Raizal people today face a diversity of problems resulting from land loss, change of traditional lifeways, and the generation gap between the elderly and young people, which all make the protection of their culture and the ancestral territory difficult.
4th International Indigenous Peoples Corn Conference will take place in Vicente Guerrero, Tlaxcala, Mexico on March 7 & 8, 2019. It will be organized and sponsored by: the International Indian Treaty Council, Proyecto de Desarollo Rural Integral Vicente Guerrero A.C., and Asamblea de Pueblos Indígenas por la Soberanía Alimentaria en México as part of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance for Traditional Knowledge, Food Sovereignty and Climate Change.
Co-sponsored by: Cultural Survival and Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance
By Duane “Chili” Yazzie
The creation stories tell that five-fingered humankind is of the Earth. We were formed of the substance of Earth, we come from the Earth, we came out of the Earth.
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.
