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Cultural Survival has covered and fought for many issues over the past 48 years: land rights, Indigenous languages, traditional knowledge, self-determination, freedom of expression. As we step into 2020, I want to focus on a topic that is very close to my heart — the sacred feminine. 

By Hani Abidi

As the decade comes to a close, NASA’s New Horizons probe conducted “the farthest ever flyby” to distant Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, 4 billion miles from the Earth. The object has been named Arrokoth, a word that means “sky” in the Powhatan and Algonquian languages. To announce the name officially, a ceremony took place at NASA headquarters in Washington D.C., on November 12, 2019.

Los Hñähñus, son un pueblo originario del altiplano de la zona central mexicana. Aunque popularmente se les conoce como la cultura Otomí, no todos se identifican precisamente con esta palabra, sino más bien, con diferentes variantes dependiendo la región en la que habitan, como Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu, Ñöñho entre otros. Actualmente, viven en los estados de Hidalgo, México, Querétaro, Veracruz, Puebla, Guanajuato y Jalisco.

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