Amazon Fellowship: Empower Indigenous Women
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Amazon Fellowship: Empower Indigenous Women
A gathering of women from all Juruá Valley in Brazil - 13 indigenous tribes united to share, strengthen the production, and improve product quality of their crafts, which are their traditional culture inherited from their ancestors, sustainably extracting material from the forest and transforming in art, which are mainly the only income for indigenous families. UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS WORK Symbiosis, a mutually beneficial rela...
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Amazon’s Huni Kuin Fire Emergency Reponse
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Amazon’s Huni Kuin Fire Emergency Reponse
The fires that have been occurring in the Amazon has also affected the Huni Kuin people. The Huwã Karu Yuxibu center, located in Rio Branco, the Acre capital, was one of the victims of the fire. Located on the AC 90 highway, kilometer 36, Ramal da Goiabeira, the Huwã Karu Yuxibu Center is a center for culture, spirituality and traditional medicine research. The site works to strengthen the indigenous cultural identity of the Huni Kuin people a...
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Ask First! ~ A Better Practices Guide for Indigenous Engagement
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Ask First! ~ A Better Practices Guide for Indigenous Engagement
Gatherings * Festivals * Conferences * Action Camps * Ancestral Arts * Protests * Ceremony * Water & Land Protection/Defense * Climate & Environmental Justice * Antiracism * Human Rights * Sacred Sites * Permaculture This guide is a work in progress. The document is posted below in full and it can also be found in google docs here for reading it on a white backdrop, along with some suggested edits. Contents: Note from an Auth...
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Huni Kui General Assembly
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Huni Kui General Assembly
From May 21 to 25, 2019, the Fifth Huni Kui Association General Assembly was held in Rio Branco,  Acre, Brazil in order to elect the new board and to plan strategies to guide governance actions to protect their rights, protect forests and their territories from threats imposed by the current social-political context. A total of 350 people attended, including Huni Kui leaders (elders, men, women and youth from the Upper Rio Purus, Marechal Thaumat...
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Aniwa. For those that are listening
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Aniwa. For those that are listening
Aniwa Gathering is a gathering that brings together 40 of the world's indigenous leaders and elders to share their wisdom during 4 days of cultural exchange and sacred ceremonies. Throughout our experience we will be encouraged to look back and learn the path of our ancestors, awakening an ever deeper connection within ourselves and inviting integral solutions to help us in unity and in harmony with the Tierra. More information www.aniwa.co ...
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On approaching Native ways in America today. By Lolly Bee
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On approaching Native ways in America today. By Lolly Bee
By Lolly Bee. I exist at the intersection of the Native American community and a “western spiritual seeker” sometimes referred to as the “new age” community. The majority but not all of this sub culture are white presenting people with European ancestors. At Standing Rock there was much interaction and lessons among and between the cultures. There was a lot of pain involved with this growth because addressing identity politics in a system ...
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Book: Defend the Sacred. If life wins, their will be no loosers
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Book: Defend the Sacred. If life wins, their will be no loosers
"Diversity among people creates peace. Diversity in nature creates sustainability." Ati Quigua, Arhuaco tribe, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia There are just a few seconds left until midnight. The foundations of our planetary life system are under extreme threat: the purity of water and air, the abundance of life in the oceans, the balance of the climate, the existence of forests, the diversity of ecosystems, and above all, the prese...
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Huni Kui People, Acre, Brazil
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Huni Kui People, Acre, Brazil
The Huni Kui, or "true people" are true jewel and an example of how Amazon indigenous peoples have been able to preserve their culture and ancestral relationship alive with the spirits of the forest. In addition to being guardians of nature and examples of resistance to the interests of governments and private companies (now more than ever). Thanks to the festival Eskawata Kayawei to Ninawa Pai da Mata, to all the villages of the riv...
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Florentino Pérez: Do not destroy the Quekchí indigenous river (Guatemala)
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Florentino Pérez: Do not destroy the Quekchí indigenous river (Guatemala)
More than 29,000 indigenous quekchi in Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) continue to see every day how the Cahabón River, next to the living, is dangerously losing its flow because of the construction of the hydroelectric complex is reborn. Sign petition here After 16 months of campaign, November 2, 2017, Alliance for solidarity delivered 25.552 signatures at the headquarters of the ACS group, presidida por Florentino Pérez. Con estas firmas, ...
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Morete Cocha, Kichwa People, Ecuador
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Morete Cocha, Kichwa People, Ecuador
The community of Morete Cocha is located in the region of Pastaza Province in the Amazon region of Ecuador. Like many other communities Morete Cocha is under threat by interest of oil companies seeking to exploit crude in the communities land. This is the story of community’s search for environmental and cultural preservation. The phrase " Sumak Kawsay " means good life in the Kichwa language. In many communities in South America this term ...
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SHORT FILM: Chief Arvol Looking Horse – ‘One Prayer’ (USA)
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SHORT FILM: Chief Arvol Looking Horse – ‘One Prayer’ (USA)
World Peace and Prayer Day / Honoring Sacred Sites Day “All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer” Following the birth of a White Buffalo Calf in 1994, the 19th Generation Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe of the Lakota, Dakota & Nakota Nations— Chief Arvol Looking Horse, was directed to honor the Four Directions with ceremony on Summer Solstice/June 21st. According to Lakota prophecy, the birth of “Miracle,” a female white buffalo, signa...
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360 FILM: Yawarani. A VR Film Made With Indigenous Creators (Brazil)
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360 FILM: Yawarani. A VR Film Made With Indigenous Creators (Brazil)
Yawarani is a VR180 film created in collaboration with the indigenous community in Yawarani to preserve their sacred culture and the wisdom of their elders. **View with a virtual reality headset for a breathtaking immersive experience with this beautiful indigenous community in the Amazon rainforest** Watch the Behind the Scenes on Daniel Bury’s channel Chasing the World: https://youtu.be/jgiaXaI2_mc The community in Yawarani have set out to i...
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360 FILM: Too Wild Too Drill (USA)
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360 FILM: Too Wild Too Drill (USA)
Journey to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in virtual reality. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a cherished landscape owned by all Americans. Yet after decades of protection, the Trump administration is barreling forward with plans to open this irreplaceable wilderness to the fossil fuel industry for oil and gas drilling. These plans have been met with widespread opposition, including from indigenous Gwich’in people who rely on the cari...
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