Langscape Magazine Vol. 9

The Other Extinction Rebellion: Countering the Loss of Biocultural Diversity

Volume 9 | 2023

The stories in this issue highlight global efforts to counter the loss of diversity in nature and culture through a “biocultural extinction rebellion”. Courageous storytellers from around the world tell us about communities combating racism, defending their linguistic and cultural rights, and embracing their land-based ancestral traditions. Read the Editorial and Table of Contents.

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Editorial | Changing Our Lives, Sowing New Seeds

Langscape Magazine Volume 9 | 2020 With the climate emergency threatening life as we know it, an Extinction Rebellion movement has been afoot. We…

Subversive Maps: How Digital Language Mapping Can Support Biocultural Diversity—and Help Track a Pandemic

Maya Daurio, Sienna R. Craig, Daniel Kaufman, Ross Perlin, and Mark Turin Maps have long been used for a variety of purposes, including to…

Reclamation

Page Lambert Elk silhouetted against a stormy sky. Photo: Page Lambert, 2013 They say the traffic in London has killed the song of…

Fighting Deforestation with Tradition: The Laman Kinipan Festival in Borneo

Pinarsita Juliana Effendi Buhing, the leader of Laman Kinipan Indigenous Community, greets the guests in the welcome ceremony known as potong pantan. Photo: Save…

My Extinction Rebellion through Education: A Young Dohoi Woman’s Message

Lina A. Karolin Every morning, waking up in her village of Tubang Habangoi, Lina would hear the sounds of the gibbons coming from the…

Mist on the Mountain

David J. Rapport Pregnant with Passion Nuances of Nature Permeate our senses Burnish feelings deep within Life and non-life cling to each other,…

As Violent as Words: An Innu Woman’s Thoughts about Decolonizing Language

Marie-Émilie Lacroix interviewed by Marco Romagnoli “Dialogue is a way of knowing myself and of disentangling my own point of view from other viewpoints…

Land needs Language needs Land

Chloe Dragon Smith On the Land We feel The roots beneath our languages— Twisting and turning, gnarly, knowing. On the Land We learn With…

Ainbon Jakon Joi: The Good Word of an Indigenous Woman

Chonon Bensho with Pedro Favaron When I was born, my parents registered my birth in the town of Yarinacocha, giving me the name Astrith…

Building Leadership through Reconnection: The Latin American Academy for Food Systems Resilience

Yolanda López Maldonado The lakes of the Andean mountains are places for reconnecting with Mother Nature. Photo: Yolanda López Maldonado, 2019 The Indigenous Peoples…

La Marabunta in Brazil: Indigenous Women as Biocultural Diversity Defenders

Thor Morales La Marabunta Filmadora’s Eusebia (front left) and Anabela (back right) traveled from Mexico to Brazil to offer a participatory video training workshop…

Hvala – Thank You: A Meditation on Reclaiming My Croatian Heritage

Sylvia Pozeg “Hvala—Thank You,” acrylic paint on canvas. Sylvia created this artwork after visiting her family’s homeland of Croatia, as a meditation on reclaiming…

The Dam Departed

Teja Jonnalagadda I was in Copenhagen with my family and ventured into the city on my own. I went to the amusement park, Tivoli…

Muriira: Reviving Culture, Nature, and Ritual in Tharaka, Kenya

Simon Mitambo Right now, in July 2020, it is the harvest season in Tharaka, the bigger of the two harvest seasons we get every…

Quarantine as Ceremony: COVID-19 as an Opportunity to Quietly Rebel against the Dominant Langscape

Severn Cullis-Suzuki The Haida people know the cost of disease. They have lived in Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the west coast of Canada,…

River of Brown Waters

Laissa Malih My video, River of Brown Waters, is the story of a river called Ewaso Ng’iro in northern Kenya. The river arises from…

Happening to Us: Amplifying Youth Voices from the Arctic

Text by Maéva Gauthier Video by Jasmine Gruben, Brian Kikoak, Carmen Kuptana, Nathan Kuptana, Eriel Lugt, Gabrielle Nogasak, Darryl Tedjuk Nathan Kuptana, nineteen, pauses…

Food and Fun in the Forest: An Indian Village Turns to Nature during a Pandemic-Induced Lockdown

Radhika Borde and Siman Hansdak The village of Chanaro on a monsoon day. Photo: Siman Hansdak, 2020 Once upon a time, growing up as…

The Through Line: Lacandón Maya, Their Forest, and the Future

James D. Nations Through line = The connecting theme, the spine, the thread that connects people to their objective and pushes them forward. “Take…

To the Roots: A Maya Reunion

A film by Steve Bartz . To the Roots: A Maya Reunion. Video: Steve Bartz, 1998. Watch film credits. We present this film by…

Please Talk to Me! I Am a Stranger Until You Talk to Me

Edna Kilusu (Tanzanian Maasai) “What?” my friend and I said simultaneously. The sheriff had asked if we had any drugs or guns with us.…

This World Is Made for You

Darryl Whetung Our spirit isn’t red skin, or light skin, brown skin, white skin Or if we have red hair, brown or black hair, when…

Farming Is Fighting: A Dayak Community Resists Unjust Regulations and Land Privatization

Meta Septalisa In 2015, a tragedy hit Indonesia: massive forest and land fires, which blanketed the whole country with thick haze. Following this disaster,…

No More Invisible People on Secret Committees: An Aboriginal Man’s Fight for Cultural Safety

Mark Lock interviewed by Stephen Houston Stephen Houston: Can you please introduce yourself? Mark Lock: I am Mark Lock from the Ngiyampaa people, an…

Guardians of the Forest: Can Securing Indigenous Land Rights Help Combat Climate Change and Prevent the Next Pandemic?

Daniel Henryk Rasolt with artwork by Vannessa Circe Traditional Indigenous territories are complex, adaptable, and resilient socio-ecological systems that contain the majority of the…

My Oxygen

Fauzi Bin Abdul Majid My oxygen is love My oxygen is joy My oxygen is forgiveness My oxygen is nature My oxygen is togetherness…

Iawa: The Unfinished Kuruaya Symphony

Miguel Pinheiro In the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, along the Xingu River and one of its tributaries, the Iriri, traces of an ancient,…

Finding Resilience in the Time of COVID-19: The Pahari Bamboo Weaving Craft in Nepal

Manju Maharjan, Yuvash Vaidya, Prakash Khadgi, and Sheetal Vaidya About twelve kilometers southeast of the city of Lalitpur in Nepal, an urban village called…

Is the Environment for Taking From or for Giving To? A Young Indigenous Economist Finds Answers in His Own Culture

Prafulla Kalokar with Kanna K. Siripurapu I am Prafulla Kalokar, 29 years old and a member of the Indigenous Nanda-Gaoli people, a semi-nomadic pastoralist…