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Apr 22 2024

My Grandfather’s Fight to Save Brunca Culture Runs in My Blood

By Chang Liu From the Field, News and Views

A young Brunca historian follows her grandfather's lifelong example of resisting colonialism and protecting the biocultural diversity of her people. WORDS María Lázaro │ IMAGES María Lázaro and Jessica Lázaro…

Mar 27 2024

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FirstVoices Celebrates 20 Years of Indigenous Languages

By Coreen Boucher From the Team, News and Views

For Terralingua, the links between nature, culture, and language are inextricable, yet also vulnerable to the homogenizing effect of globalization and a handful of dominant languages. Diversity in all its…

Mar 06 2024

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Changes to Langscape Magazine Subscriptions

By Coreen Boucher From the Team, News and Views

After careful consideration, we are making some changes to the way we offer Langscape Magazine. Since we moved from producing two annual issues of the magazine to only one, double-sized…

Dec 18 2023

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Year-End Message from Dr. Luisa Maffi

By Coreen Boucher From the Director, News and Views

Dear Terralingua Friends and Supporters, If you are like me, these days you may be asking yourselves how to keep a positive outlook in the midst of one of the…

Oct 04 2023

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Get Our Latest Issue of Langscape Magazine!

By Coreen Boucher From the Team, News and Views

For this issue of Langscape Magazine, we asked our contributors some thought-provoking questions: Can we have rights without responsibilities? Is today’s predominant focus on rights distracting us from paying attention…

May 02 2023

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A Culture in Peril: Tanzania’s Maasai Forced from Their Ancestral Lands

By Coreen Boucher From the Field, News and Views

The Maasai take their culture with them wherever they go. WORDS AND IMAGES Melanie Furman “My grandparents only ate cow’s milk, cow’s meat, cow’s blood, and wild fruit they would…

Jan 18 2023

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The steps of the BC Provincial Legislature at the July 1, 2021, First Nations memorial gathering.

Mom, Dad . . . Where are you?

By Chang Liu From the Field, News and Views

Indigenous Adoption Stories Knowing one’s origins can bring healing and closure. Marie-Émilie Lacroix and Marco Romagnoli From Rose Imai's The Children’s Series: #1, First 215 Revealed,” metallic watercolor on…

Nov 15 2022

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Imaging the Future: A World of Porous and Fluid Boundaries

By Akshara Sangiorgio From the Field, News and Views

Interview with Fairouz El Tom Through her artwork, an artist proposes a world where identity, diversity, and culture are intertwined and constantly changing. Emma-Caitlin Cooper ART Fairouz El Tom…

May 20 2022

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Celebrate & Support Biocultural Diversity this May

By Christine Schrum From the Director, News and Views

. This month, the UN celebrates Cultural Diversity Day (May 21) and Biological Diversity Day (May 22). We at Terralingua would like to take that a step further and recommend…

Jan 07 2022

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Get our Latest Issue: A Celebration of 25 Years of Biocultural Diversity

By Robert Wiltzen From the Team, News and Views

The year 2021 marked 25 years since Terralingua came into existence in 1996 — a quarter of a century of raising awareness of the vital value of biocultural diversity and…

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My Grandfather’s Fight to Save Brunca Culture Runs in My Blood

FirstVoices Celebrates 20 Years of Indigenous Languages

Changes to Langscape Magazine Subscriptions

Year-End Message from Dr. Luisa Maffi

Get Our Latest Issue of Langscape Magazine!

A Culture in Peril: Tanzania’s Maasai Forced from Their Ancestral Lands

Mom, Dad . . . Where are you?

Imaging the Future: A World of Porous and Fluid Boundaries

Celebrate & Support Biocultural Diversity this May

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