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Language is more than a means of communication, it is nature and the world we inhabit, it is collectivity, it is being part of a community, of a history. Language is the possibility of sharing a cosmovision, of giving continuity to our ancestors and sharing knowledge, recipes, wisdom, sensations and emotions. It is the soul

Eight years ago, in the midst of the United Nations World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, Pawanka Fund was born as a Fund for indigenous ways of knowing and learning. Throughout its existence, it has built relationships of trust, creating networks and promoting the articulation between local and global processes. With the direction of a Guiding

With the objective of documenting environmentally sound and detrimental practices in the farming of swiddens – known as kaingin in most parts of Luzon and uma in Northern Luzon – we conducted interviews with key informants and case respondents, and did some photo and video documentation in two sample barangay within the Kalinga culture area: Gawaan in the municipality

by Barbara Fraser The Earth’s warming temperatures are having a disproportionate negative impact on Indigenous peoples, those of African descent and migrants, but their ancestral wisdom is essential to efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change and preserve biodiversity, a top Vatican official said. Speaking at a virtual conference May 27 sponsored by the Vatican

In an indigenous community in Landak Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, 22 year-old Mini Lestari had just completed her participation in a project. She shared her realizations thus, “A lot of changes were happening; nature was not as it used to be. Dry and rainy seasons would come erratically, making it difficult for us to start

Preamble Massage from the Editor Chittagong Hill Tracts is located in the South Eastern part of Bangladesh that comprises of the three Hill Districts of Bandarban, Rangamati and Khagrachari. It shares common international border with Myanmar and India (the states of Mizoram and Tripura). The region is largely hilly and rocky which made the region

A Catalog of Traditional Edible Forest Products by Trinamul Unnayan Sangstha PREAMBLE Chittagong Hill Tracts is located in the South Eastern part of Bangladesh that comprises of the three Hill Districts of Bandarban, Rangamati and Khagrachari. It shares common international border with Myanmar and India (the states of Mizoram and Tripura). The region is largely