by Rubina Cohen | Jan 20, 2016 | Blog, Ritual and Ceremony, Youth
By Cindy Fogle The Maasai youth, whose people reside and travel along the border between Kenya and Tanzania, sit in the crosshairs of modernization. Like many Indigenous youth they face immense pressure by outside forces attempting to instill in them that their ways...
by Rubina Cohen | Jan 15, 2016 | Blog, Education, Language, Art and Culture
Dormant for 150 years, a lost Indigenous language is brought back to life by a Native woman, setting into motion a cultural revitalization process. This blog is part of a series of Sacred Fire Foundation on the importance of resourcing Indigenous-led groups that are...
by Rubina Cohen | Dec 16, 2015 | Awareness Building, Blog, Earth Stewardship, Ritual and Ceremony
Five Indigenous Elders Share their Wisdom Blog by Rucha Chitnis The wisdom of the past is the seed of the future. This sums up a key nugget of the philosophy of Sacred Fire Foundation that is guided by the knowledge that ancestral wisdom is key to solve many of the...
by Rubina Cohen | Nov 19, 2015 | Blog
By Lawrence I. Messerman Featured photo by Rick Harrow Recently, traditional wisdom received some high-level acknowledgement in an area where it rarely gets much credibility. That’s because the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to three people including China’s...
by Rubina Cohen | Oct 1, 2015 | Blog, Language, Art and Culture
By Rucha Chitnis This is part one of our series on the role of philanthropy to preserve endangered native languages by resourcing Indigenous-led groups that are on the frontlines striving for cultural survival. Language extinction can lead to cultural annihilation....
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