Sinangoe is a small community formed by up to 200 A’l Cofan people, who live in the north of the Ecuadorian Amazon. In 2017, Asentamiento Ancentral Cofan de Sinangoe (The Ancestral Township of Cofan in Sinangoe) decided to form the Community Guards, a group dedicated to monitoring 50,000 hectares of their ancestral territory and identifying outsiders mining gold, deforesting, killing animals, and poisoning rivers.
After an incredible year of hard work and deep impact, I am excited to share with you Cultural Survival’s 2019 Annual Report!
New England's premier global Indigenous arts festival is happening online on July 25!
By Micaela Icó Bautista and Susannah Daniels
In English
Por Micaela Icó Bautista, Susannah Daniels
Por Rodrigo Medina
No soy como los demás gunadule; quiero decir, me parezco a los demás, como se describen en las crónicas españolas: nariz aguileña, espalda ancha, bajo de estatura, cabello negro y abundante, espíritu rebelde y con una insaciable necesidad por apoyar a mi pueblo. Pero no hablo dulegaya, crecí en la Ciudad de Panamá desde que soy consciente y hasta hace dos años no sabía que era gunadule.
The Tuklik Communication Project in the areas of radio and video production and broadcasting is being implemented in six communities, in the municipalities of Mayapan, Cantamayec and Tahdziu in the southern and eastern regions of the Yucatan in Mexico. The three municipalities have a numerous Mayan population and a high degree of poverty and marginalization.
By Laura R. Graham, with collaboration from Edson Krenak Naknanuk
El proyecto de comunicación Tuklik, conformado por los ámbitos de la producción y difusión de programas de audio para radio, y la producción y proyección de videos, se desarrolla en seis comunidades de tres municipios ubicados en la región sur y oriente de Yucatán: Mayapán, Cantamayec y Tahdziú. Para ubicarles, nos permitimos decir que el estado de Yucatán tiene 106 municipios, según el gobierno de Yucatán agrupados en siete regiones: poniente, noroeste, centro, litoral centro, noreste, oriente y sur.
On March 12-13, 2020, in La Esperanza, Intibucá, Honduras, 11 Lenca women from radio stations in 7 different communities gathered for two-day workshops on community radio communication with a focus on gender equity organized by Cultural Survival, the Red de Desarrollo Sostenible Honduras (RDS), the Association of Community Media of Honduras (AMCH), and the Central American Network of Indigenous Community Radio Stations.
The Eastern Woodlands Rematriation Collective sustains “the spiritual foundation of traditional livelihoods through sustainable food and agroecological systems” in the New England area. The Collective’s projects are rooted in the reclamation of traditional food, wild medicines, and ecological knowledge through exchange, mutual aid, and apprenticeship within Tribal territories of the northeast. These projects focus on local infrastructure needs of their various food cultivation spaces with the goal of building capacity through trust and care to others.
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.
