Davi Kopenawa Yanomami receives the Right Livelihood Award
Stockolm, Sweden 4 December 2019
The Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa (also know as the Dalai Lama of the rainforest) received the Right Livelihood…
Indigenous Peoples
The Twelve
The Twelve is a documentary of 77:07 minutes that gives voice to the traditions of wisdom through the…
Counter Mapping
Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee2018
The article offers a critique of modern Western cartographies, in particular its alleged objectivity and neutrality, from the…
Biocultural Sacred Sites in Mexico
M. C. Bastida Muñoz and G. Patrick Encina2017
There have been many different approaches and contributions to our intercultural understanding of the inherent sacredness of nature….
Ban to climb the sacred monolith of Uluru
National Park Uluru-Kata Tjuta, Australia27 October 2019
The ban on climbing Uluru, the famous red monolith sacred to the Australian aborigines 348m high and a…
Raoni Metuktire
Statement Chief Kayapó2019
You have to change the way you live because you are lost, you have lost your way. Where…
The non-progressive Great Spirit. Traditionalism in the modern world.
The non-progressive Great Spirit. Traditionalism in the Modern World1973
Statement by the young Gayle High Pine, published in the magazine Akwesasne Notes, in 1973. Addressed from an…
Statement of indigenous peoples and local communities on the last IPPC report on climate change
42 CountriesAugust 2019
A large group of indigenous and community organizations and networks—representing 42 countries —has issued a statement highlighting the…
Native Hawaiians block the building of a new giant telescope to summit of sacred Mauna Kea
Hawai, USAJuly 2019
Last week, hundreds of protectors came back to the base of the Mauna Kea access road, peacefully blocking…
Two new World Heritage Sites promoted by Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Australia
Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan July 2019
During the UNESCO’S 43rd session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan, two new…