Values and Traditions
Indigenous knowledge, practices and lifestyles can be relevant and beneficial for sustainable living and our environment in modern times.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
Cherokee Riverkeepers - Respect for the consciousness, healing powers and wisdom of rivers.
EcoFoodDev - Traditional Ecological Knowledge: How Indigenous Wisdom Can Build a Sustainable Future.
Google Books - Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Concepts and Cases. (Read free of charge.)
Indigenous Vision - Works to revitalize Indigenous communities by providing educational resources that promote well-being.
Mongabay - series: Indigenous Peoples and Conservation, journalistic stories exploring threats to indigenous peoples' territories, showcasing successful indigenous-led conservation initiatives.
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.
See also: What can be learned from Indigenous Peoples and their values?
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 - Over 1,700 environment activists killed in decade (report), environmental activist killed every two days.
Forest Declaration Platform - Sink or swim: How Indigenous and community lands can make or break nationally determined contributions.
'This land belonged to us' - Nestle supply chain linked to disputed Indigenous territory, cattle raised ended up in global supply chain.
'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.
'Grandmothers are our weather app' - New maps and local knowledge power, Chad's climate fightback.
Hakai Magazine - For New Zealand Maori, an Uncertain Future as Fish Move Away, animals are heading for new areas.
Law Library - Introduction to Indigenous Peoples' Civil Rights, fights to obtain civil liberties from the nations that colonized them.
NPR - The last member of a tribe in Brazil has died, pulling Indigenous rights into focus.
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.
Video message by UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on 2024 International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
