How do we protect our most ancient and indigenous communities on Earth?

How do we ensure that their voices continue to be strengthened and will be integrated into the collective consciousness of generations to come?

How do we uplift these voices to empower our solutions for addressing our ongoing and new planetary needs?

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Bikaptorois
Facilitating Protection of Endorois Indigenous Knowledge Systems//A Story by Kibet Cheruiyot

As years go by, people grow old, generations pass by, cultures are lost in the process of being to the next generation. The evolution of the cultures and the transition of these practices across communities of the world has not spared the people of the Endorois community. This site seeks to enhance and preserve the great things about their culture. Years from today we won't have a traditionally dressed woman. The art of piercing the ears of women and men alike will have been lost. This site will be there. This is a deliberate intention to ensure the next generation gets to know the beautiful things about our culture and not just pass it on but also practice it.

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Palagama Village Sri Lanka
Learning and Recording with a serpent medicine physician (2015)

The days that followed remain vivid in my mind. Each day, the Sinhalese translator–– who grew to be a close friend––and I would walk forty-five minutes alongside rivers and through marshes to arrive at Sumanapala’s remote, tucked away home. He would greet us at the edge of his house with a few of his handwritten books in one arm and his grandchild in the other. His wife and daughter would frequent the small plastic table set up on the side of their home, silently smiling and curious about their new guests. The medical dictionaries he had written were filled with detailed pictures and diagrams of local snakes, plants, and venomous snake bites. 

David Pierre-Louis, Seeds from the Roots Advisor
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Partners
A Conversation with SeaPotential: Decolonizing “Interviewing” to Create Heart Based Connections to Water with Youth

Global Wisdom Collective engages with many partners in the space of sharing and teaching the value of intergenerational dialogues. SeaPotential, an organization based in Washington state, facilitates relationships between youth and marine ecosystems. In June 2022, GWC facilitated an intergenerational dialogue workshop to prepare youth for dialogue with elders. The workshop taught youth communication skills which have the power to heal waterways and communities.

Mikayla Prince, Communications Strategist
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ANCIENT WISDOM PRESERVATION

Our work focuses on protecting traditional ecological knowledge and key cultural lifeways pertinent to, for, and alongside treasured and sacred communities that would otherwise be at threat for extinction.

PROTECTION OF NATURE

Our work prioritizes channeling resources in protection of sacred natural resources and wildlife.

BRIDGE BUILDING

We create a space of sharing and involvement between generations and cultures that will carry the torch of this preservation work, as guided by our elders and ancestors.

ADVOCACY

We  empower leaders and change makers to champion the protection of sacred communities and endangered beings.

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