Indigenous communities worldwide are facing cultural extinction, a process paralleled by the loss of biological diversity within their ancestral territories; yet these same communities are proactively working to restore and revitalize languages, knowledge, and traditions, and to steward their ancestral lands and waters. Native ecologies and Native cultures are intrinsically connected: if native ecosystems are reshaped, eroded, or destroyed, the indigenous cultures are also restructured or diminished, and may eventually disintegrate as the links between indigenous traditions and culturally...
Indigenous communities worldwide are facing cultural extinction, a process paralleled by the loss of biological diversity within their ancestral terri...