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Archive for November, 2009

Cultural Survival, founded in 1972, is a recognized leader anibg educational and cultural organizations speaking out for the rights, voice and vision of indigenous peoples. Cultural Survival believes that indigenous peoples should be able to determine their own futures on their own lands (and on their own terms). Through its website and publications, student conferences and educational outreach, Cultural Survival draws attention to the issues confronting indigenous peoples, and promotes the cause of self-determination. Cultural Survival’s projects emphasize the need to build partnerships with and between indigenous peoples and their program serves as a means of pro-indigenous advocacy. Here at the web site. Cultural Survival provides important and, above all, carefully analyzed information concerned with reconciling economic development and human rights in an era of globalizing capitalism. Related topics of interest include the prospects for multiculturalism in pluriethnic societies This web site includes online indexes to Cultural Survival’s magazine, Cultural Survival Quarterly, along with reports on Cultural Surval events and projects, and in-depth articles on a range of topics, among them a fascinating piece on the Macuxi, Wapixana, IngarikO and Taurepang of Raposa-Serra do Sol in which an anthropologist documents the struggle of indigenous people to have their ancestral land protected—rather than despoiled—by the Brazilian government. Tune in here for the news corporate media is not likely to mention, let alone highlight.