Dear Partners,
My name is Ali Gonzalez from the Indigenous Boruca community in the south of Costa Rica. I am a one of Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Community Media Youth Fellows. I had the pleasant experience of participating in the Second Central America Community Radio Network Meeting held in Panajachel, Guatemala.
Organización de Mujeres Indígenas Unidas por la Biodiversidad de Panamá (OMIUB) or “Indigenous Women United for Biodiversity,” is a group founded in 2011 that works to strengthen, develop, and revive Indigenous knowledge in Panama. In 2017 Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund awarded the organization a grant to strengthen the governance of Kuna, Embera, and Wounaan People by conducting workshops on the newly established law of Consultation and Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC).
Danae Laura, Bazaar Program Manager, comes to Cultural Survival from a decade of social entrepreneurship and marketing in both the natural food and wellness industries. Danae studied Social Justice and Education as a Martin Luther King Scholar at New York University, lived abroad in Ghana as a Gilman International Fellow, and was recently recognized as an emerging scholar by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society for her work at Lesley University where she is studying mindfulness as a tool for social justice.
By Tricia Hornback, Ph.D
By Nii Gaani Aki Inini – Leading Earth Man (Dave Courchene)
Paintings by Henry Guimond, Turtle Lodge. Used with permission.
The Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim are members of the Q’anjob’al Maya of Guatemala living in diaspora in Nebraska. After years of living in Nebraska, the traditional ancestral government of the Q’anjob’al, which also includes the Akateko, Chuj, and Popti Maya Peoples, has developed a bilateral relationship with the American Indian Omaha Nation.
Join us to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day in Cambridge! Organized by United American Indians of New England, North American Indian Center of Boston, IndigenousPeoplesDayMA.org, and Cultural Survival.
Cultural Survival se complace en anunciar su convocatoria de propuestas para el proyecto “Jóvenes Indígenas de Medios Comunitarios 2018” que apoyará a jóvenes indígenas en sus esfuerzos por desarrollar su capacidad como locutores de radio y como periodistas a través de capacitaciones específicas, visitas o intercambios con otras radios comunitarias, producción radial, conferencias, asistencia y otras oportunidades en temas de educación y capacitación.
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.