SALSA Action Statements

Declaración de SALSA Condenando el asesinato de Arnaldo Benitez Vargas y la violencia contra el pueblo Paì-Tavyterã del Paraguay...

La Sociedad para la Antropología de las Tierras Bajas de América del Sur – SALSA, organización académica internacional compuesta…

La Sociedad para la Antropología de las Tierras Bajas de América del Sur – SALSA, organización académica internacional compuesta…

La Sociedad para la Antropología de las Tierras Bajas de América del Sur – SALSA, organización académica internacional compuesta…

Declaración de SALSA SALSA exige el fin de la represión de los Pueblos Indígenas en Perú Febrero 26 de...

SALSA Statement SALSA Repudiates the Attacks on Democracy in the Praça dos Três Poderes, Brasília 12 January 2023 The...

SALSA Statement Os mortos trágicos de Bruno Pereira e Dom Phillips 16 June 2022 Os estudantes, acadêmicos...

SALSA Statement Condemning Brazil’s Proposed Law #490/2007 27 June 2021 Strongly supported by the agro-industrial sector, Law #490/2007 provides...

SALSA Statement Against Resolution # 4 of FUNAI 9 February 2021 The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South...

SALSA Statement On the Serious Situation of Mapuche Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Chile 22 July 2020 The Society...

SALSA Letter to Brazilian Authorities On Brazil’s failure to protect the health and safety of Indigenous population during the...

SALSA Statement In Support of Black Lives Matter and Condemning Structural Violence 6-10-20 Declaração da SALSA em apoio à...

PIAC STATEMENT: SALSA is united in voicing our strong opposition to policies proposed by Brazil’s National Indian Foundation (FUNAI)…

PIAC STATEMENT: Recently released audio and video clips, reported by the Brazilian network Globo on Sunday, April 19, 2020, reveal a…

PIAC STATEMENT: SALSA is deeply concerned about the dangers that the COVID-19 pandemic poses to the indigenous peoples of…

SALSA strongly condemns the nomination on Feb. 5, 2020 of Ricardo Lopes Dias to the position of coordinator of…

We join our voices to those in Brazil and throughout the world who are outraged by the swathe of…

SALSA strongly condemns the murders, expulsion and persecution of indigenous Pemón people by security forces of the Venezuelan government…

SALSA strongly condemns the recent invasion of native lands in Brazil by several thousand illegal gold-miners, and we call…

SALSA expresses its concern over the actions of the leadership of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH)…

SALSA is currently collecting donations in support of the project to create a new Francisca Keller Library of the…

Tupinamba Chief Babau threatened to death for leading demarcation process of the Terra Indigene Tupinamba de Olivença, Bahia-(in Portuguese)

Mr. Bolsonaro’s election threatens to accelerate dangers already facing minority populations and delicate ecosystems throughout Brazil, South America’s largest…

The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) has shared with SALSA the following statement regarding demonization of…

SALSA wishes to express our profound sadness and indignation with the destruction by fire of the Museu Nacional in…

The SALSA Public Issues and Actions Committee sent a letter to Peru\’s National Institute of Statistics and Information (INEI)…

SALSA, together with Associação Brasileira de Antropolgia (ABA) and Groupe International de Travail pour les Peuples Autochtones (GITPA), recently…

We, teachers, intellectuals, and members of the academic world, hereby express our vehement repudiation of the anti-indigenous policy of…

SALSA letter to Carmen Lucia, Minister of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court regarding criminalization of anthropology in Brazil SALSA has...

We write this letter to denounce the Brazilian state’s systemic disregard of the rights and well-being of indigenous peoples

It is with great concern that SALSA has learned that the Peruvian, Brazilian, and Chinese governments have signed memoranda…

SALSA Letter on the situation of the Mashco-Piro (10.14.14) Letter to Diana Álvarez-Calderón Gallo, Minister of Culture, Peru [English...

The board of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) wishes to respond to the recent…

SALSA wishes to express its concern regarding the proposed Belo Monte hydroelectric project in the Amazonian state of Para….

In solidarity with ABA, the Brazilian Anthropology Association, SALSA\’s first public action statement was this letter, sent to the…