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Jun 17 2020

Land needs Language needs Land

By Robert Wiltzen

Chloe Dragon Smith On the Land We feel The roots beneath our languages— Twisting and turning, gnarly, knowing. On the Land We learn With bodymindheartandsoul, The truths that shaped our…

May 19 2020

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Subversive Maps: How Digital Language Mapping Can Support Biocultural Diversity—and Help Track a Pandemic

By Robert Wiltzen

Maya Daurio, Sienna R. Craig, Daniel Kaufman, Ross Perlin, and Mark Turin Maps have long been used for a variety of purposes, including to characterize land use and land cover…

Dec 08 2019

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Ancestral Sayings and Indigenous Knowledge: Learning from Māori Oral Tradition

By Robert Wiltzen

by Hēmi Whaanga and Priscilla Wehi An adult tūī vocalizing with feathers fluffed out, Te Puke, North Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Photo: Raewyn Adams, 2012 (from “New Zealand Birds…

Oct 04 2019

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There Are No Corners in the Tundra

By Robert Wiltzen

Khadry Okotetto (Nenets, Russian Federation), interviewed by Galya Morrell “I was jailed in a Russian boarding school where they tried to make a Russian second-class citizen out of me — because I was…

Jul 31 2019

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Army Ants

By Robert Wiltzen

Story by Eusebia (Chevy) Flores, age 36, Yaqui (Mexico) The La Marabunta Filmadora participatory film team: (left to right) Eusebia, Samuel, Anabela, Faviola. Photo: Thor Morales/ InsightShare, 2015 I am…

Jul 10 2019

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Our Children Are Our Hope and Future: Reflections of a W̱SÁNEĆ Language Apprentice Turned Language Immersion Teacher

By Robert Wiltzen

Story by SX̱EDŦELISIYE (Renee Sampson, W̱SÁNEĆ, age 37), with an introduction by Luisa Maffi, Editor of Langscape Magazine, Co-founder and Director, Terralingua W̱SÁNEĆ immersion camp on the land at W̱ENNÁNEĆ…

Jun 20 2019

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It Takes a Community to Raise a Speaker: An Interview with Jordan Brant (Mohawk, age 29)

By Robert Wiltzen

Interview by Luisa Maffi, Editor of Langscape Magazine, Co-founder and Director, Terralingua Jordan Brant, Mohawk (right) with the other two participants in the Indigenous youth panel at the HELISET TŦE…

Jun 13 2019

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Speaking Our Identity

By Robert Wiltzen

Story by Hellen Losapicho, age 34, El Molo (Kenya), and Magella Hassan Lenatiyama, age 35, El Molo (Kenya) Documenting the traditional methods used by El Molo fishermen on Lake Turkana.…

Oct 27 2018

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The Power of Place Names: Embedding Bama Local Languages into the Australian Landscape

By Robert Wiltzen

by Michaela Jeannaisse Carter . Writing bioculturally significant place names on a topographic map of Nyungkal Country. Photo: Citt Williams, 2017 . In July 2017, I abandoned my Pacific Northwest summer…

Aug 18 2018

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Biocultural Diversity as Observed from the Hawaiian Nation

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Text and photos by Harvy King Lily pad pond of antiquity, Ahupua’a Hakipu’u. 2017 As humankind’s connection to land and water evolved, our development of agriculture produced the availability…

Land needs Language needs Land

Subversive Maps: How Digital Language Mapping Can Support Biocultural Diversity—and Help Track a Pandemic

Ancestral Sayings and Indigenous Knowledge: Learning from Māori Oral Tradition

There Are No Corners in the Tundra

Army Ants

Our Children Are Our Hope and Future: Reflections of a W̱SÁNEĆ Language Apprentice Turned Language Immersion Teacher

It Takes a Community to Raise a Speaker: An Interview with Jordan Brant (Mohawk, age 29)

Speaking Our Identity

The Power of Place Names: Embedding Bama Local Languages into the Australian Landscape

Biocultural Diversity as Observed from the Hawaiian Nation

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