Newsletter: Indigenous languages, our life, our culture, our identity
We invite you to learn more about indigenous languages through our Pawanka Fund Newsletter.
We invite you to learn more about indigenous languages through our Pawanka Fund Newsletter.
We share knowledge about research, news, projects and everything related to the work we do with indigenous peoples.
For today’s episode our guest is Rukka Sombolinggi. Rukka is the first woman secretary general of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), the largest indigenous peoples’ organization worldwide. Rukka has a degree from Hasanuddin University’s Faculty of Agriculture and holds a master’s degree in Political Science from Chulalongkorn University (Thailand). Listen on Listen …
Revaluation of indigenous languages: 7 stories in 7 sociocultural global regions Indigenous languages afford a unique way to perceive, understand, and interact with the world. Indigenous languages are complex knowledge systems that store ancestral wisdom and allow humanity to have a diversity of knowledge and ways of thinking. Despite the importance of keeping languages alive, …
Learnings, from local to global / Aprendizajes desde lo local a lo global Leer más »
SAAMI VICTORY OVER FISHING RIGHTS The indigenous Saami people inhabit the northern part of the Scandinavian peninsula and a large part of the Kola peninsula: in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. About 8,000 Saami live in Finland, which is about 0.16 % of the total Finnish population of about five million […] Politically, the Saami …
There is less deforestation and less damage to biodiversity in areas protected by indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples maintain an ancestral bond with their territories; their lives depend closely on the natural resources of the places where they live, where they obtain food, medicines, construction materials, and where they develop their spirituality. They see in their …
Young adults are trained in indigenous natural resource management, cultural resource management, and in promoting a traditional and holistic approach to caring for the land and building capacity in young leaders to revitalize food sovereignty in Hawai‘i.
We share with you a video that shows us the art, spirituality, community work, rescue and importance of the ancestral wisdom of Indigenous Peoples and their challenges and adaptation to climate change.
Lessons of Indigenous Governance Indigenous peoples practice numerous governance systems based on their ancestral traditions and incorporating innovations. While these systems vary from community to community, they share many characteristics: a collective sense of responsibility for nurturing, protecting, and defending the territory and the balanced use of their resources and participation in decision-making. During these …
In our first episode we have as guest, Namaka Rawlins, Nāmaka, originally from Hawaii . All her life she has fought for the revitalization of the Hawaiian language. Namaka has always believed in education as a means of preserving native languages Listen on Listen on web: