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Nov 09 2020

Pura Vida: Costa Rican Peasants Fight for a World That Contains Many Worlds

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Felipe Montoya-Greenheck The Peñas Blancas River is the lifeblood of the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor and of the peasant communities living there. Photo: Felipe Montoya-Greenheck, 2020 Southern Costa Rica is…

Nov 02 2020

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The Gift: Healing Mother Earth with Indigenous Women’s Wisdom

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Barbara Derrick “Broken Glass,” acrylic on canvasette. Cultural genocide caused by colonialism shatters Indigenous Peoples’ connection to the earth and to their identities. Artwork: Barbara Derrick, 2020 About the Artwork…

Oct 29 2020

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The Frontline of Ideology on Mauna Kea: Kapu Aloha’s Example for the World

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Harvy King At 4,207 meters above sea level, where the hot sun burns and harsh winds blister and have a tendency to scrape the soul, stands the summit of Mauna…

Oct 19 2020

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Locking Horns to Save the Sacred Cow: India’s Indigenous Pastoralists Fight for Their Livelihoods and Cultural Traditions

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Kanna K. Siripurapu The sacredness of the cow in India, especially to the vast majority of Hindus, hardly needs an introduction. According to the Hindu scriptures, all cows are descendants…

Oct 16 2020

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Is the Environment for Taking From or for Giving To? A Young Indigenous Economist Finds Answers in His Own Culture

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Prafulla Kalokar with Kanna K. Siripurapu I am Prafulla Kalokar, 29 years old and a member of the Indigenous Nanda-Gaoli people, a semi-nomadic pastoralist community native to the Indian state…

Oct 13 2020

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Finding Resilience in the Time of COVID-19: The Pahari Bamboo Weaving Craft in Nepal

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Manju Maharjan, Yuvash Vaidya, Prakash Khadgi, and Sheetal Vaidya About twelve kilometers southeast of the city of Lalitpur in Nepal, an urban village called Badikhel sprawls over an area of…

Oct 05 2020

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Iawa: The Unfinished Kuruaya Symphony

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Miguel Pinheiro In the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, along the Xingu River and one of its tributaries, the Iriri, traces of an ancient, vanished population are found. The petroglyphs…

Sep 30 2020

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My Oxygen

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Fauzi Bin Abdul Majid My oxygen is love My oxygen is joy My oxygen is forgiveness My oxygen is nature My oxygen is togetherness Their oxygen is money Their oxygen…

Sep 28 2020

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Guardians of the Forest: Can Securing Indigenous Land Rights Help Combat Climate Change and Prevent the Next Pandemic?

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Daniel Henryk Rasolt with artwork by Vannessa Circe Traditional Indigenous territories are complex, adaptable, and resilient socio-ecological systems that contain the majority of the world’s biocultural diversity. But can Indigenous…

Sep 23 2020

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No More Invisible People on Secret Committees: An Aboriginal Man’s Fight for Cultural Safety

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Mark Lock interviewed by Stephen Houston Stephen Houston: Can you please introduce yourself? Mark Lock: I am Mark Lock from the Ngiyampaa people, an Australian Aboriginal tribe from rural Australia.…

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Pura Vida: Costa Rican Peasants Fight for a World That Contains Many Worlds

The Gift: Healing Mother Earth with Indigenous Women’s Wisdom

The Frontline of Ideology on Mauna Kea: Kapu Aloha’s Example for the World

Locking Horns to Save the Sacred Cow: India’s Indigenous Pastoralists Fight for Their Livelihoods and Cultural Traditions

Is the Environment for Taking From or for Giving To? A Young Indigenous Economist Finds Answers in His Own Culture

Finding Resilience in the Time of COVID-19: The Pahari Bamboo Weaving Craft in Nepal

Iawa: The Unfinished Kuruaya Symphony

My Oxygen

Guardians of the Forest: Can Securing Indigenous Land Rights Help Combat Climate Change and Prevent the Next Pandemic?

No More Invisible People on Secret Committees: An Aboriginal Man’s Fight for Cultural Safety

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