Current Issue: 36.1 (March 2012)

Sacred Places, Sacred Lifeways


Features

Saving Wirikuta: The Struggle to Protect a Sacred Place in Mexico
Rafael Cilaunime Candelario Valadez
A Wixárika (Huichol) yarn painter’s quest to protect his people’s sacred sites from mining companies.

Bribri Women Lead the Way in Community-based Tourism in Costa Rica
Ana Lucía Fariña
Women make Indigenous tourism succeed on the Talamanca Reserve.

The Birds that Bring Gifts
Duaro Mayorga
What monitoring birds has brought the Bribri in Costa Rica.

Media Revolution in the Highlands of Guatemala
Hanna Adcock
Two filmmakers ensure that Indigenous people of Quetzaltenango acquire skills to create their own documentaries.

Recovering Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Alaska
Jennifer Weston
An Alutiiq professor develops language programs that promote the revitalization of Alutiiq language and culture.

2012: End of the World?
Danielle DeLuca in conversation with Julian “Wixlax Jowilax” Velasquez
In Momostenango, Guatemala, the Quiche Mayan community is gearing up for their biggest party yet.

 

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