By Fr. Bijo Thomas, Station Director, Community Radio Mattoli, Wayanad, Kerala, India.
 

Radio Mattoli, a community radio station in  Dwaraka, located in the Wayanad district of Kerala, India, won the award for best thematic radio program by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The station was recognized for having the best quality and most relevant and timely coverage of climate mitigation and Indigenous practices out of 448 community radio stations in India. The award was presented to Radio Mattoli on July 23, 2023. 

Dear Cultural Survival Community,

I wanted to share with you some news about an exciting transition happening at Cultural Survival in 2024. After nearly four and half years as the Executive Director of Cultural Survival, I will be transitioning at the request of the Securing Indigenous Peoples Rights in the Green Economy (SIRGE) Coalition's Executive Committee to take on leadership at the Coalition. 

                   2024 CALL FOR PROJECT CONCEPTS        

11 Ways to Relearn Thanksgiving and to Honor Native Peoples

We sent this letter below to 560+ European Union legislators urging them to include Indigenous Peoples' rights in the Critical Raw Materials Act. 

Dear MEP,

Is consent really necessary? 

On 14 September, MEPs will vote on the ITRE Compromise text on the Commission proposal for Critical Raw Materials Regulation (CRMR). We call on you to support the inclusion of the Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) and Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the upcoming plenary vote. 

Le jeudi 14 septembre 2023, le Parlement Européen votera sur l'adoption de la loi sur les matières premières critiques ! Votre voix est nécessaire dès maintenant !

Qu'est-ce que la loi sur les matières premières critiques et pourquoi a-t-elle vu le jour ?

By Camilla Lindschouw (CS Intern)

Cultural Survival works tirelessly in support of strengthening Indigenous knowledge and building capacity within Indigenous communities. We aim for this to happen not only within community spaces but also through exchanges between other communities that provide participants an opportunity to broaden perspectives and learn about the processes of other Peoples, as well as to learn from projects being carried out in other territories.

Radio Tuklik serves five communities in the municipalities of Mayapan, Cantamayec, and Tahdziú, located adjacent to each other in the south and east regions of the Yucatan, Mexico. The state of Yucatan consists of 106 municipalities across 7 regions: west, northwest, center, central coast, northeast, east, and south.

Nearly a month after the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in Haaland v.

By Gerard Beelt Tiwow (CS Intern)

"Na ang buhay ng batang isinilang ay maging kasing tatag at kasing tibay nga punungkahoy at kagubatn at higit salahat ay lumaki ang bata na nakaugat sa lupa." (May the child that is born grow as strong and sturdy as the tree and the forest where it grows, and be rooted to the earth.)-- Teduray Prayer