Values and Traditions
Indigenous knowledge, practices and lifestyles can be relevant and beneficial for sustainable living and our environment in modern times.
- APTN News - Indigenous women are blazing a conservation trail, local journalism Initiative.
- Action Network - Indigenous Peoples Movement, collective of various indigenous peoples from all over the world.
- All that we are - Pat McCabe on Emergence, Restoration and Co-Creation: Human Gifts Of Kinship
- BCcampus - Living in a Good Way with Indigenous Values and Beliefs.
- Building Belonging - Belonging to ourselves, each other, and Earth, decolonization to re-indigenization?
- Cherokee Riverkeepers - Respect for the consciousness, healing powers and wisdom of rivers.
- Deep Adaptation Forum - Why the UN must rely more on indigenous wisdom and less on fossil fuels.
- EcoWatch - Indigenous Peoples Harvested Oysters Sustainably for Thousands of Years Until Colonizers Arrived.
- EcoWatch - Spiritual Leader Sadhguru Takes 100-Day Motorcycle Journey to Save Soil.
- EcoFoodDev - Traditional Ecological Knowledge: How Indigenous Wisdom Can Build a Sustainable Future.
- European Wilderness Society - Wisdom of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Indigenous people as nature's safeguards.
- Forest Declaration Platform - We, Indigenous Peoples, are the Protectors of Biodiversity: forest,river, ecosystems, sacred spaces
- Google Books - Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Concepts and Cases. (Read free of charge.)
- Guardian - 'It's a powerful feeling': the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo.
- Happy Eco News - 7 Unlikely Benefits of Hunting for the Environment.
- Indigenous Vision - Works to revitalize Indigenous communities by providing educational resources that promote well-being.
- MPRnews - Once-ignored Indigenous knowledge of nature now shaping science.
- Melbourne University - Unique value of indigenous knowledge, genuine two-way learning.
- Mongabay - series: Indigenous Peoples and Conservation, journalistic stories exploring threats to indigenous peoples' territories, showcasing successful indigenous-led conservation initiatives.
- NPR - Dogs are sniffing out disease in animals vital to traditions of the Blackfeet tribe.
- National Park Service - Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Forming a Relationship with Mother Earth.
- Planet Forward - A native space: designing an Indigenous storytelling, mentorship program.
- UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems, experts, scientists and researchers.
- Wikipedia - Traditional ecological knowledge, (TEK) describes indigenous and other traditional knowledge of local resources.
- Woodbine Ecology Center - Indigenous Values, common threads in traditions of native peoples of Americas.
- Yale Climate Connections - Indigenous farmers bring back crops adapted to hot, dry conditions
- Yes Magazine - Solving the Climate Crisis Requires Traditional Ecological Knowledge
- Yes Magazine - An Indigenous Perspective on Reconnecting With the Land
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Indigenous group dancers at Amis Music Festival 2016.(Wikimedia Commons)
Graffiti brings Manaus's Indigenous roots to light. Murals recount the history of Indigenous people and honor their culture in the capital of Amazonas.
What did 2022 looked like for Indigenous Peoples and local communities? Reflections and progress on advancing Indigenous Peoples and local communities' land rights.
Indigenous group dancers at Amis Music Festival 2016.(Wikimedia Commons)
Graffiti brings Manaus's Indigenous roots to light. Murals recount the history of Indigenous people and honor their culture in the capital of Amazonas.
Indigenous Rights and Fights
Sadly, many indigenous peoples are struggling to maintain rights to their land and to the Earth resources they protect. Mining, logging, dams and deforestation for agricultural purposes are imposed by outside interests. Many indigenous activists have been violently attacked, criminalized and murdered and the threats are growing worldwide.
- BBC News - Deforestation threat to Amazon indigenous areas if protected status changed - report.
- BBC News - Over 1,700 environment activists killed in decade (report), environmental activist killed every two days.
- Climate Law Blog - Indonesian Human Rights Commission's first human rights complaint on the impacts of climate change.
- EcoWatch - Megadrought Threatens Navajo Lifeways, Drives Up Food Prices and threatening lifeways across the Navajo Nation.
- Environmental Defense Fund - Indigenous Peoples Need a Seat at the Climate Table, who've stewarded tropical forests for generations.
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Forest Declaration Platform - Sink or swim: How Indigenous and community lands can make or break nationally determined contributions.
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- Indigenous leaders urge businesses and banks to stop supporting deforestation - Amazon ecosystem on verge of collapse.
- 'It's humiliating' - Indigenous voices say they are being ignored at climate summit - as it happened.
- Peruvian Amazon Indigenous - Leaders from Achuar and Wampis peoples lobby banks to cut ties with state oil firm.
- On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing - A reflection on nature - in pictures, includes work from an Indigenous community in Chile.
- Greta Thunberg's charity funds fight Indigenous battle with British mining company over mine on reindeer-herding lands.
- Indigenous people in Peruvian Amazon detain tourists Oil spill, about 70 people seized in environmental damage protest.
- 'This land belonged to us' - Nestle supply chain linked to disputed Indigenous territory, cattle raised ended up in global supply chain.
- Sale of oil and gas permits - casts shadow over world's second-largest rainforest, auction of exploration rights threatens way of life.
- 'We relied on the lake. Now it's killing us' - climate crisis threatens future of Kenya's El Molo people
- Native Americans are at the heart of Yellowstone - After 150 years, they are finally being heard.
- Greta Thunberg condemns 'racist' decision to let UK firm mine on Sami land - Indigenous rights violation.
- Protect Indigenous people's rights or climate goals fail (report) - Rainforests absorb more carbon than other lands.
- It's our land, too - Brazil's Indigenous peoples protest, indigenous groups meet demanding land rights and environment action.
- 'Grandmothers are our weather app' - New maps and local knowledge power, Chad's climate fightback.
- Bolsonaro's war on the Amazon - Examining evidence of crimes against Indigenous people, video.
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Brazilian Forest Guardian - Rainforest activist from one of Brazil's leading Indigenous protection groups killed.
------------------------------------------------------------ - Greenpeace - Protecting forests shouldn't mean murder, attacks against Indigenous communities in Brazil.
- Hakai Magazine - For New Zealand Maori, an Uncertain Future as Fish Move Away, animals are heading for new areas.
- Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center - Conflict, Militarization, Exploitation of Land and Resources, statements on human rights and peacemaking in indigenous zones.
- Interfaith Rainforest Initiative - Uniting people of all faiths to end tropical deforestation, protecting rainforests and indigenous peoples.
- Law Library - Introduction to Indigenous Peoples' Civil Rights, fights to obtain civil liberties from the nations that colonized them.
- Mongabay - series: Indigenous Peoples and Conservation, journalistic stories exploring threats to indigenous peoples' territories, showcasing successful indigenous-led conservation initiatives.
- NPR - A U.S. uranium mill is near this tribe. A study may reveal if it poses a health risk
- NPR - Pacific Northwest tribes want to hold American leaders accountable and remove 4 dams on the Snake River.
- NPR - The last member of a tribe in Brazil has died, pulling Indigenous rights into focus.
- Planet Forward - Stewardship of our oceans should belong to the First Nations People, humanity engaged in fight for oceans' survival.
- UN - Meet 13 Indigenous Young Indigenous Rights Activists, Indigenous youth have been leading the way online and offline
- Wikipedia - Indigenous rights that exist in recognition of the specific condition of the Indigenous peoples.
- YaleEnvironment360 - Amazon Defender Stands Up for Her Land and Her People: dam projects, illegal loggers and miners.
What did 2022 looked like for Indigenous Peoples and local communities? Reflections and progress on advancing Indigenous Peoples and local communities' land rights.