This issue of Langscape Magazine explores “territories of life,” a concept that embodies the core tenet of biocultural diversity: that there is an inextricable, mutual link between people and the natural world.

Indigenous Peoples and other custodians, or stewards, of their lands and territories have long fought to retain or regain their self-determination: their right to exert their ancestral responsibilities toward one another and toward nature. Territories of life, in all of their diversity, have been at the center of these struggles, as the sources of people’s identities, languages, cultures, and ways of knowing and acting in the world.

Stories by Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors will be published to this page throughout 2024.