After an incredible year of hard work and deep impact, I am excited to share Cultural Survival’s 2025 Annual Report with you! Reflecting on 2025, I’m grateful for the relationships we have begun and those we have deepened, and I’m proud of what we have accomplished. It’s an honor to work alongside Indigenous Peoples as together we defend our rights, territories, lands, and waters, and continuously revitalize our languages, cultures, and lifeways. Thank you for being in community with us and for contributing to this meaningful work! As an example of the strength of our collective efforts, I want to share a significant outcome of our work in Brazil in 2025. Cultural Survival supported representatives of the Pataxó and Arana Peoples to attend the United Nations climate change conference (COP 30) in Brazil and meet with authorities. Through our media channels, Cultural Survival amplified the Pataxó’s advocacy to defend and demarcate their lands. After ceremonies and meaningful engagement with authorities during COP 30, they achieved one of their goals: the demarcation of one of their lands! We couldn't do this work with you. Thanks to our funders and supporters like you, in 2025, we also accomplished the following:
While it’s important to celebrate these victories and all we accomplished in 2025 – as you’ll read about in this report – there is much work still to be done in Brazil and around the world. In these challenging times, Cultural Survival continues to walk alongside Indigenous Peoples on the front lines of protecting their communities and biodiversity while also facing disproportionate climate change impacts and the deeply harmful greediness of extractive industries. Over millennia, Indigenous Peoples have seen empires and economic systems rise and fall, and yet we remain, continuously returning to the wisdom of our ancestors for solutions as we collectively dream and co-create a future of mutual flourishing. I hope we can also count on you for continued support and collaboration.
Hטchi yakoke li hoke (I thank you all so much), Aimee Roberson (Choctaw and Chickasaw) Executive Director
