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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 […]

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

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

This video showcased the highlights of the Pawanka Fund Sungai Utik Indigenous Youth Exchange held in Indonesia which is about the key role of indigenous youth in traditional knowledge transmission.

The year 1932 is forever marked in the memory of El Salvador’s indigenous peoples. Known before as Cuzcatlán, which means «country of medals» or «City Jewelry» because of its beautiful and fertile land with vegetation, hills and volcanoes, El Salvador has seen continuous struggles for land beginning with the expropriation of indigenous territories by conquerors.

The Borana pastoralist people of Northern Kenya had been observing how climate change impacts on their communities with the gradual erosion of traditional coping practices. Women used to churn milk to make ghee during the rainy season in preparation for drought. Milk made into yoghurt and preserved lasted for half a year. When drought came,

The Baka pygmies in Cameroon, Central Africa have a wealth of knowledge on traditional healing and medicinal plants from their forests. Specific animals are also sources of treatment for particular ailments such as the shells of giant snails for lumbago, or leopard’s bones as aphrodisiac, or the turtle’s egg for haemorrhoids. It is interesting to