We are The Culture Keepers Circle
The Culture Keepers Circle is a national grassroots movement of African-descendant, Indigenous, Latiné, Asian/Pacific Islander, and other cultural communities formed to protect the people, places, practices, and treasures that document our contributions to American society.
The people, places, practices, and treasures that tell the story of our contributions to American society are under attack.
As a result of the federal government’s ongoing attacks, we stand to permanently lose over 13.4 billion artifacts, 640 million acres of public land, innumerable cultural resources within 3.7 million square nautical miles of national waterways, and funding for more than 500,000 scholars, artists, and other knowledge keepers.
The Circle mobilizes people to disrupt the government’s attempts to control our history,
silence our cultures, and take over our public lands and waterways.
Together with our supporters, The Circle is reimagining how our communities protect, access,
and share our cultural resources with the world.
STAND IN YOUR POWER AS A CULTURE KEEPER
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STAND IN YOUR POWER AS A CULTURE KEEPER ✦
our focus areas
We take action across six areas to protect
and sustain our cultural resources:
Raise national visibility about the threats to cultural resources and demand transparency and access from institutions that hold them.
Block the destruction, sale, or disappearance of cultural resources held in public trust.
Uplift and advocate for knowledge keepers who preserve, interpret, and share cultural memory.
Use emerging technologies to archive endangered cultural materials before they are lost.
Co-create platforms with communities that ensure open, ethical access to cultural resources.
Reimagine sustainability within the cultural sector at the local, regional, national, and international levels. Invest in long-term preservation efforts.