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We are deeply grateful to the Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle (IYSC) contributors for sharing their stories and critical work, which continue to inspire and strengthen biocultural resurgence across communities.

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Dignity in the Lens: Going beyond stereotypes, reframing the image of Revitalizing indigenous languages ensures that people can make informed decisions about their daily lives and participate in democracy and development without having to sacrifice their identity

Indigenous communities in Tanzania are often misrepresented in media through stereotypes that undermine their dignity and exclude their voices. Efforts led by UNESCO and local partners promote ethical journalism, Indigenous-language media, and fair representation.

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Langscape Magazine Volume 14 invites readers to reconsider what abundance truly means. We are grateful to the contributors who shared stories of living well.

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Sounding Good: Advancing Cultural Sustainability and Social Justice Through Music YouTube video by Catherine Grant

Catherine Grant joins cultural leaders to explore how music strengthens communities facing displacement, inequality, and cultural loss — and how sustaining cultural practice can be a powerful form of justice.

Author royalties are donated to Terralingua.

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The Genocide of a Language - Terralingua Through poetry, film, and the defiant act of speaking her mother tongue, Cana Nongkhlawa, a Khasi artist, refuses cultural erasure.

Indigenous Khasi artist, Cana Nongkhlaw, shares her poetry film Haba ka ïap ka Ktien (The Genocide of a Language / When the Language Dies), created in her mother tongue as an act of grief, reclamation, and resistance. 🎥 bit.ly/cananongkhlaw

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Photos: Indigenous elders push for comeback of the revered Philippine crocodile DUNOY, Philippines — In the dense, tropical rainforests of the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park, an ancient predator drifts silently beneath the surface of still rivers. For Indigenous Agta elders, ...

In the Northern Sierra Madre, the Philippine crocodile, once feared and nearly extinct, is returning through a powerful alliance of Indigenous knowledge and science. For the Agta people, these crocodiles are ancestral guardians, not threats.

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This story is a powerful reminder that Indigenous faces are not stock images, cultures are not costumes, and representation without consent can quietly reproduce the same colonial erasures Indigenous Peoples continue to resist.

bit.ly/yangot

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Young people in Nepal are leading a powerful cultural revival, one script at a time. Nitu Dangol shares how a youth-led movement is reviving endangered Newah language and scripts through workshops, art, and digital tools. 📖 bit.ly/nitudangol
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In a challenging world, biocultural abundance invites new ways of thinking about wealth, community, and care for the Earth. We invite you to read Terralingua’s Director, Luisa Maffi’s year-end reflections on our website. Wishing you a safe and bioculturally abundant new year!

Lisa Marie Wia and Emily Papa share why more than half of PNG’s 800+ Indigenous languages are at risk, and how losing language means losing connection to land, culture, and ancestry.

terralingua.org/stories/keeping-traditional-languages-alive

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For nearly 30 years, Terralingua has a simple but powerful truth: when nature, culture, and language flourish together, the world flourishes too. Help us shape a future where biocultural diversity is understood, valued, and protected.

Donate 👉🏽 www.terralingua.org/donate-for-biocultural-diversity/

We're delighted to share Sounding Good, a new book exploring how music, cultural sustainability, and social justice intertwine across communities worldwide.

Use code AUFLY30 for 30% off. Author royalties support Terralingua.

In “Who Will Wipe My Tears?” Asnul introduces us to Husna — a young girl navigating loss in a world where the forest, the ocean, and ancestral memory shape the path she must walk.

📖 terralingua.org/stories/who-will-wipe-my-tears/

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Joel Meitaya shares what unfolded when his community in Loliondo was forced off its ancestral land. Yet through it all, he shows the strength and determination of a people fighting to protect their home and their future. terralingua.org/stories/traditions-in-the-dust

Seeds of Resilience - Terralingua Genda Bai Tulsiram, a Bhil woman living in Madhya Pradesh, is reviving heirloom seeds and traditional farming practices.

Genda Bai’s work as a seed keeper revives heirloom crops, strengthens food security, and empowers Bhil women to reclaim their relationship with the land.

Read the story on our website: terralingua.org/stories/seed...

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📣 LAST CALL!

Our Langscape Volume 14 launch event—On Biocultural Abundance—is happening this Wednesday. Don’t miss this global conversation on rethinking wealth, poverty, and the intertwined well-being of people and nature.

All registrants receive the recording.

Register now: luma.com/p3l4n84a

In this story, writer and Indian Army soldier Rakesh Rawte shares his journey as a proud Gowari navigating shattered opportunities, bureaucratic barriers, and a system that continues to question his people’s identity.

terralingua.org/stories/zero-mile/

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The battle for the Skolt Sami language 'The language holds knowledge that cannot be conveyed in other words. It is the unwritten history of the people,' says Hanna-Maria Kiprianoff, director of the Skolt Sami museum in Neiden. On the Norwe...

Amid the threat of language extinction, the Skolt Sámi of Finland, Norway, and Russia are working to revive their ancestral tongue and cultural identity.

www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/the-bat...

Rebuilding and Restoring the Biocultural Collection | New York Botanical Garden It was a hot summer day when I sat down to speak with Matthew Pace and Ken Walker, who are leading the charge to rebuild our Biocultural Collection. The AC box I’d wedged snugly into my window was cra...

In this feature, Cosette Patterson speaks with Matthew Pace and Ken Walker of the New York Botanical Garden on their mission to rebuild and digitize the Biocultural Collection — preserving centuries of plant knowledge and merging botany and culture.

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Our latest issue of Langscape Magazine, "On Biocultural Abundance: Rethinking Poverty and Wealth," has arrived, and print copies are finally in the mail! 🥳

Enjoy a 160-page, ad-free collection of thought-provoking stories and reflections worldwide.

👉🏽 terralingua.org/shop/langscape-magazine/

Birth of a Red Cedar Canoe - Terralingua Talon Pascal, a Lil’wat youth residing in BC, Canada, creates a traditional dugout canoe from red cedar and reconnects with his ancestors.

In Birth of a Red Cedar Canoe, Talon Pascal shares how crafting a traditional dugout canoe became more than just a project, but a reconnection with his Lil’wat roots and the lands that shaped them.

Read the full story on our website: bit.ly/talonpascal

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From the plains of Kenya to the hills of Tanzania, the Maasai people remain one and stand united beyond borders. Maison Ole Nkurrunah shares how the first Maasai Cultural Festival became a homecoming and a revival of ancestral pride. bit.ly/rednaissance

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Experimental Research | UCL Multimedia Anthropology Laboratory | United Kingdom The Multimedia Anthropology Laboratory at University College London seeks to explore alternative modes of conducting anthropological fieldwork and presenting ethnography.

🌿 Call for Submissions — MultiCOP at COP30 🌎

Our friends at UCL Anthropology and Flourishing Diversity invite Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and knowledge holders worldwide to share their voices for MultiCOP, an official COP30 Mutirão event (Nov 10–21, 2025).

👉🏽 www.uclmal.com/multicop

Growing up far from her homeland, Tosang Chang felt her cultural roots fading. Through this rediscovery, she reconnected with her ancestry and the deeper meanings carried by these traditional tattoos, not just as art, but as memory and identity reborn. bit.ly/TosangChang

Join us as we gather for a thought-provoking livestream event inspired by the latest issue of Langscape Magazine: “On Biocultural Abundance: Rethinking Poverty and Wealth.”

🕙 10:00 PST | 13:00 EST | 18:00 UTC
All registrants will receive a link to the recorded event. Register now: luma.com/p3l4n84a

As a Kamëntšá girl growing up in Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley, Cielo Chindoy learned to weave the ts̈ombiach alongside her grandmothers. Each line and color speaks of identity, protection, and the deep ties between women, land, and memory. 📖 bit.ly/ts̈ombiacheng
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Digital herbaria: innovations and new challenges for the preservation of biocultural knowledge

A collaborative study involving leading botanical institutions outlines best practices for empowering ethnobotany through digital herbaria. While herbaria hold vast biocultural data, the lack of unified curation limits access.

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When naturopathic doctor Tanya Kammonen first visited a Shipibo village in the Peruvian Amazon, she was struck not only by the lush beauty of the land but also by what was missing — the men who had left to work in nearby coca fields. Read the story: bit.ly/kammonen

History is not fixed in the past but alive in the stories, songs, and stewardship that continue today. Honoring this day means listening to Indigenous voices, supporting their sovereignty, and recognizing our shared responsibility to live in right relationship with the Earth and with one another.