Explore inspiring, first-person stories from Indigenous youth worldwide — and share your own! Our Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle (IYSC) provides a global platform for Indigenous youth to share their unique perspectives online. Stories may also be considered for Langscape Magazine, Terralingua’s flagship publication, if they speak to that issue’s theme.

We started the IYSC in 2019 as an official project of the UN’s International Year of Indigenous Languages. More than 50+ talented young authors, poets, artists, photographers, and filmmakers from 15 countries participated and sent us their work. Below, you’ll find the fruits of their efforts: engaging personal essays, poems, artwork, and videos that explore how Indigenous people are connecting with ancestral languages, cultural traditions, and land-based knowledge and practices. Click on any story to start exploring (and please share widely!).