
angscapeVolume 9, Double Issue, Summer/Winter 2020 L MAGAZINEMAGAZINE The Other Extinction Rebellion: Countering the Loss of Biocultural Diversity Langscape Magazine is an extension of the voice of Terralingua. LANGSCAPE MAGAZINE nature language culture Through the power of stories, images, and art, it supports VOLUME 9, DOUBLE ISSUE our mission to educate minds and hearts about the vital value Summer/Winter 2020 of biocultural diversity for the thriving of life on earth. The Other Extinction Rebellion: Countering the Loss of Biocultural Diversity TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL GUARDIANS OF THE FOREST THE GIFT Can Securing Indigenous Land Rights Help Combat Healing Mother Earth ABOUT THE COVER PHOTOS CHANGING OUR LIVES, Climate Change and Prevent the Next Pandemic? with Indigenous Women’s Wisdom Front: "The Gift," acrylic on canvasette, framed. Healing power returns to women in a SOWING NEW SEEDS Daniel Henryk Rasolt Barbara Derrick ���������������������������������������������������� 66 matriarchal society. Artwork: Barbara Derrick, 2015 Luisa Maffi ������������������������������������������������������������� 5 with artwork by Vannessa Circe ������������������������������37 IAWÁ RESPONDING TO A Back: Kuin Tibung, one of the contestants in the bajual bajarupis boat competition in Borneo, CONTESTING RACISM The Unfinished Kuruaya Symphony raises his right hand after successfully passing the last rapids in the river. Photo: Save Our PANDEMIC AND DISCRIMINATION Miguel Pinheiro ����������������������������������������������������� 69 Borneo, 2019 SUBVERSIVE MAPS THE FRONTLINE OF IDEOLOGY How Digital Language Mapping Can Support ON MAUNA KEA LA MARABUNTA IN BRAZIL Biocultural Diversity—and Help Track a Pandemic Kapu Aloha’s Example for the World Indigenous Women as Biocultural Diversity Defenders Maya Daurio, Sienna R� Craig, Daniel Kaufman, Ross Harvy King ������������������������������������������������������������44 Thor Morales ����������������������������������������������������������74 Perlin, and Mark Turin ����������������������������������������������8 AS VIOLENT AS WORDS YOUTH RISING RECLAMATION An Innu Woman’s Thoughts about Decolonizing Language Page Lambert ���������������������������������������������������������14 MY EXTINCTION REBELLION Marie-Émilie Lacroix THROUGH EDUCATION QUARANTINE AS CEREMONY interviewed by Marco Romagnoli ���������������������������48 A Young Dohoi Woman’s Message Terralingua thanks the Reva and David Logan Foundation, COVID-19 as an Opportunity to Quietly Rebel Lina A� Karolin �������������������������������������������������������79 the Lawson Foundation, and the Swift Foundation Langscape Magazine is a against the Dominant Langscape LAND NEEDS LANGUAGE for generously supporting Langscape Magazine. Severn Cullis-Suzuki ����������������������������������������������� 16 NEEDS LAND MIST ON THE MOUNTAIN EDITOR: Luisa Maffi Terralingua Publication Chloe Dragon Smith ���������������������������������������������� 52 EDITORIAL COORDINATOR & FOOD AND FUN IN THE FOREST David J� Rapport ��������������������������������������������������� 82 COPY EDITOR: Jadwiga Sangiorgio An Indian Village Turns to Nature during NO MORE INVISIBLE PEOPLE COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING: Coreen Boucher a Pandemic-Induced Lockdown ON SECRET COMMITTEES HAPPENING TO US CONTENT WRITER & STRATEGIST: Christine Schrum An Aboriginal Man’s Fight for Cultural Safety CUSTOMER CARE & ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR: Suzan Denis Radhika Borde and Siman Hansdak ����������������������� 21 Amplifying Youth Voices from the Arctic GRAPHIC DESIGN: Imagine That Graphics Mark Lock interviewed by Stephen Houston����������� 54 Text by Maéva Gauthier PRINTING: Minuteman Press FINDING RESILIENCE Video by Jasmine Gruben, Brian Kikoak, Carmen IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Learn about Terralingua: terralingua.org WOMEN AS DEFENDERS The Pahari Bamboo Weaving Craft in Nepal Kuptana, Nathan Kuptana, Eriel Lugt, Gabrielle Visit Langscape Magazine and read articles: AINBON JAKON JOI Nogasak, and Darryl Tedjuk ���������������������������������� 83 terralingua.org/langscape-magazine/home/ Manju Maharjan, Yuvash Vaidya, Prakash Khadgi, The Good Word of an Indigenous Woman Purchase single copies or subscribe: and Sheetal Vaidya ������������������������������������������������ 26 terralingua.org/shop/ Chonon Bensho with Pedro Favaron ���������������������� 59 BUILDING LEADERSHIP THROUGH RECONNECTION ISSN 2371-3291 (print) MURIIRA ISSN 2371-3305 (digital) REVIVING CULTURE, NATURE, HVALA—THANK YOU The Latin American Academy for Food Systems © Terralingua 2020 AND RITUAL IN THARAKA, KENYA A Meditation on Reclaiming My Croatian Heritage Resilience Simon Mitambo ����������������������������������������������������� 32 Sylvia Pozeg�����������������������������������������������������������64 Yolanda López Maldonado ������������������������������������� 89 2 | LANGSCAPE MAGAZINE VOLUME 9 SUMMER/WINTER 2020 | 3 MY OXYGEN FIGHTING DEFORESTATION IS THE ENVIRONMENT FOR EDITORIAL Fauzi Bin Abdul Majid ������������������������������������������� 96 WITH TRADITION TAKING FROM OR The Laman Kinipan Festival in Borneo FOR GIVING TO? RIVER OF BROWN WATERS Pinarsita Juliana ��������������������������������������������������116 A Young Indigenous Economist Finds Answers Laissa Malih ���������������������������������������������������������� 98 FARMING IS FIGHTING in His Own Culture Prafulla Kalokar with Kanna K� Siripurapu��������144 Changing Our Lives, A Dayak Community Resists Unjust Regulations and PLEASE TALK TO ME! Land Privatization DRAWING THE LINE I Am a Stranger Until You Talk to Me Meta Septalisa ������������������������������������������������������121 Edna Kilusu ���������������������������������������������������������102 AT THE BLACK LINE Sowing New Seeds THE THROUGH LINE The Indigenous Sages and Stewards of the Sierra Lacandón Maya, Their Forest, and the Future THIS WORLD IS MADE FOR YOU Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia Darryl Whetung ��������������������������������������������������106 James D� Nations �����������������������������������������������125 Guillermo Rodríguez Navarro�������������������������������151 Luisa Maffi TO THE ROOTS - A Maya Reunion WEB EXTRA FIGHTING FOR NATURE Steve Bartz �����������������������������������������������������������131 AND CULTURE ith the climate emergency threatening life as we know hardship, is proof that our writers and artists—many of them NO WORD FOR GOODBYE PANDEMIC PERSPECTIVES it, an Extinction Rebellion movement has been afoot. young participants in our Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle PURA VIDA Reclaiming Abalone’s Home on the California Coast A Selection of Posts from Terralingua’s Blog W We at Terralingua, however, believe there is another project—were determined to share their thoughts and feelings Costa Rican Peasants Fight for Jacquelyn Ross ����������������������������������������������������132 Manju Maharjan, Ceren Kazancı, Gisèle Maria crisis against which the world should rebel too: the “biocultural against all odds. We’re all the richer and wiser for their caring, diversity extinction crisis,” the ongoing loss of diversity in both generosity, and insights. a World That Contains Many Worlds LOCKING HORNS TO SAVE THE Martin, Lina Karolin, Abraham Ofori-Henaku, nature and culture. That’s what we had in mind when launching First we delve into the challenges that communities in Felipe Montoya-Greenheck ��������������������������������� 108 SACRED COW Chonon Bensho and Pedro Favaron, the theme for the 2020 issue of Langscape Magazine: calling India’s Indigenous Pastoralists Fight for Their Liveli- Radhika Borde and Siman Hansdak, North and South America, Asia, and Africa face in confronting attention to the need for that other extinction rebellion. and coping with the pandemic. We start in New York, where THE DAM DEPARTED hoods and Cultural Traditions Yolanda López Maldonado That was in February. Little did we know that only a month researchers Maya Daurio, Sienna Craig, Daniel Kaufman, Ross Teja Jonnalagadda �������������������������������������������������114 Kanna K� Siripurapu ������������������������������������������� 137 at�������������������������������������������https://bit�ly/3qTA76G later the COVID-19 pandemic would begin to spread across Perlin, and Mark Turin were in the midst of producing cutting- the planet, making our theme all the more poignant and urgent! edge digital mappings of the spatial distribution of New York’s Indigenous Peoples and local communities—who account for astounding linguistic diversity—about 650 different languages most of the world’s biocultural diversity—were among the most spoken there!—when the pandemic hit. Suddenly, they realized vulnerable to the effects of this scourge, which posed an existential that their language maps could be repurposed to help address threat to their lives, livelihoods, and ways of life. That added a health problems and other urgent societal needs the pandemic whole new dimension to our theme: How were they responding to brought about in the city. the pandemic? How were they building resilience by calling upon Cities under pandemic lockdown inspire Page Lambert’s their cultural and spiritual traditions? prose poem “Reclamation.” With the urban bustle at a standstill, Then, with the world already in the throes of the global wildlife was seen returning within city boundaries, reclaiming health crisis, came a wave of political and social turmoil, their ground. What would happen, muses Page, if cities remained provoked by the long-festering ills of
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