by Rubina Cohen | Aug 2, 2019
A Shuar Ancestral Bio-Garden will be established to select, cultivate, recover and manage a seed bank for traditional species of ancestral medicinal and comestible plants. Over the course of 12 months, the Sacred Forest Foundation will create a basic technical team...
by Rubina Cohen | Aug 23, 2018
Intended as a place of learning for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples alike, the White Eye Traditional Knowledge Camp is an effort to preserve and revitalize the local traditional Indigenous knowledge carried by Gwich’in culture-bearers, and to pass this on to...
by Rubina Cohen | Aug 23, 2018
The Busuréliame Project for cultural education and “awakening”conducts monthly cultural education workshops and weekly follow-up sessions for 80 children from five communities in the Rebellion Tarahumara Grade school in Bajichi, Municipio Urique. Busuréliame is...
by Rubina Cohen | Aug 22, 2018
Humla Fund The civil war in Nepal had a devastating impact on traditional life in the remote Humla District of Nepal. Most profound was the destruction of the shaman temples in the villages. The native Humli people believe that when the temples were destroyed, the...
by Rubina Cohen | Aug 20, 2018
Jtsunibtik sok lekil weeltik (Our Crops and Safe Food) is a project whose main objective is the saving of native grains still in use in Indigenous communities. The creation of a seed bank would involve the rescue of seeds of more than three varieties of local corn, as...
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