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Traditional Healing Practices Thrive for Good Health and Wellbeing

For more than a thousand years, far-flung indigenous villages in the Himalayan ranges have depended on their Amchi practitioners for healing and health prescriptions for their ailments, not only in body, but also for mental wellbeing. These Buddhist practitioners use an ancient herbal medical regimen that combines physical and spiritual skills with arduous travel on …

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As a Woman: Leading Indonesia’s Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance

Author: Dev Kumar Sunuwar In 2017, Rukka Sombolinggi (Toraja) from central Sulawesi, Indonesia was elected the first woman secretary general of the Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of Indonesian Archipelago (AMAN). Before joining AMAN in 1999, Sombolinggi worked for JAPHAMA, a network of Indigenous Peoples’ defenders—one of the main groups that convened the first congress of Indigenous …

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Indigenous Media as a Means for Inter-generational Communications

Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (AMAN) For indigenous communities all over the world, the access to relevant information and availability of channels to amplify their concerns are still pressing needs. Gradually and increasingly, community radio is being rediscovered by indigenous peoples as an effective means of strengthening their community spirit and transmitting information within the community. …

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Harvesting Knowledge through the Hoʻoulu ʻĀina Community Project

Patrick Kahawaiolaa, a Kupuna (Elder) and a lessee of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) narrated, based on a 1900s congressional record how non-Hawaiian landowners and ranchers testified against the establishment of homestead lands. Then Prince Kūhiō was forced to compromise on geographic distribution of homestead lands and on the blood quantum in order …

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