Langscape Magazine is an extension of the voice of Terralingua. nature . language . culture . It supports our mission by educating the minds and hearts LANGSCAPE MAGAZINE about the importance and value of biocultural diversity. VOLUME 5, ISSUE 2, Winter 2016 We aim to promote a paradigm shift by illustrating biocultural diversity Voices of the Earth, Part 2 through scientific and traditional knowledge, within an appealing sensory context of articles, stories, and art. Table of Contents Contributors ..................... 4 To the Golden Mountains of Action Altai, Southern Siberia: Editorial ............................... 6 A Journey of Language and Soul Like Growing Flowers: The Work of Saving Special Feature: Joanna Dobson ................................ 39 Endangered Languages Voices from the Field: Ajuawak Kapashesit......................... 64 Biocultural Diversity at 20 African Rural Women, Custodians ABOUT THE COVER PHOTOS Flourishing at Twenty: of Seed and Traditional Knowledge Louder Than Words II Front: Dr. Rimberia Mwangi, Sacred Site Custodian, Meru, Kenya. On Context and Foundations in the Rise Kagole Margret Byarufu ................... 43 Cherokee Voices for the Land of the Concept of Biocultural Diversity Clint Carroll and Cherokee Nation Photo: Jess Phillimore/The Gaia Foundation, 2012 Ken Wilson ....................................... 10 Louder Than Words I Medicine Keepers ............................ 68 Protecting Biocultural Back: Two fishermen on Lake George, Western Uganda. Ideas Diversity in Dakshinkali, Yamani: Voices of an Ancient Land Maintaining the Linguasphere a Sacred Grove in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Faith Baisden, Thomas Dick, Carolyn Photo: Hal Rhoades/The Gaia Foundation, 2016 in the Anthropocene Sheetal Vaidya and Asha Paudel ...... 46 Barker, and Kristina Kelman ............. 74 Peter Bridgewater ............................ 16 Dispatches II Web Extra The Earthlings Are Invading! Linking Language and the Land: Giving Nature a Critical Voice: Radical Language and Dialogue A New Approach to Nature Conservation? at the United Nations How Words, Stories, and Ceremonies Can Inform Decision Making among Katherine Dominique Lind Joseph Lambert ............................... 21 the Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw of British Columbia, Canada Reflections View this Web Extra at Andrea Lyall ..................................... 51 “No one said a word”: http://www.terralinguaubuntu.org/ Terralingua thanks the Logan and Kalliopeia Langscape Magazine is a Langscape/Volume_5/lind.pdf Foundations for their generous support. Children Give Voice to the Fullness Māori Oral Tradition, Terralingua Publication of Language, Landscape, and Life Ancestral Sayings, and Editor: Luisa Maffi Patrick Howard ................................ 25 Editorial Assistants: Christine Arpita, Indigenous Knowledge: Coreen Boucher Language, Landscape, Learning from the Past, Web Developer: Phil Rees Looking to the Future Graphic Design: Imagine That Graphics and Custom: Hemi Whaanga and Priscilla Wehi .... 56 A Synthesis for Memory Learn about Terralingua www.terralingua.org Marilee K. Gloe ................................ 30 Doña Dora and Receive Langscape Magazine by subscribing or Her Tehuelche Animals: by purchasing single copies. Dispatches I Stories of Language Revitalization Details at: www.terralinguaubuntu.org in Southern Patagonia Jaqin Uraqpachat Amuyupa: Learn about Langscape Magazine The Aymara Cosmological Vision Javier Domingo in conversation with Dora Manchado ........................ 60 www.terralinguaubuntu.org/langscape/home.htm Amy Eisenberg ................................. 34 ISSN 2371-3291 (print) ISSN 2371-3305 (digital) © Terralingua 2016 VOLUME 5 ISSUE 2 | 3 Marilee K. Gloe Andrea Lyall Contributors Marilee K. Gloe has a Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability. Andrea Lyall is a registered professional forester working with Working with Indigenous cultures, she focuses on cultural Indigenous forestry initiatives in Canada and the USA. She capital resources, natural resource preservation, and teaches Aboriginal Forestry at the Faculty of Forestry at the Faith Baisden The Cherokee Nation biodiversity. In the Caribbean she assists in the development University of British Columbia, Canada. She is working on of ecologically sustainable small-scale aquaponics to reduce her PhD dissertation, with a focus on Indigenous perspectives Faith Baisden is from the Yugambeh community south of Medicine Keepers coral reef degradation and ensure food security. on forests and culturally relevant forest governance. She is a Brisbane, Australia. She is an artist, photographer, curator, The Cherokee Nation Medicine Keepers are a group member of the Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw Nation. and composer. Faith is Director of Binabar Projects, an of Oklahoma Cherokee elders who have incorporated Indigenous consultancy involved in business planning; Patrick Howard to perpetuate Cherokee ethnobiological knowledge Indigenous language, cultural, and artistic project Asha Paudel for future generations. As fluent Cherokee speakers Patrick Howard is associate professor in the Education management; and book production. Faith has been Department at Cape Breton University in Nova Scotia, Asha Paudel is an assistant lecturer at Amrit Campus, conversant with the ties between language, knowledge, involved for over twenty years with Indigenous language Canada. A former public school teacher for over twenty Tribhuvan University, Nepal, teaching about climate and the environment, they seek to strengthen these projects both at the community level and in consultation years, his research explores the intersection between change and biocultural diversity in the high Himalayas. for state and national policy in support of languages. connections by promoting tribally led land education language, literacy, phenomenology, and ecology. An accomplished field scientist, her interests also lie in and conservation. His article “Inspiring the Bioregional Imagination: pollination biology as well as plant systematics of the Carolyn Barker Deepening the Connection to Place through Reading, alpine regions of Nepal. Thomas Dick Writing and Ecology” was published in Green Teacher. Carolyn Barker is a producer, contemporary jeweller, and Sheetal Vaidya facilitator of community cultural development projects. Thomas Dick is an independent producer and researcher Ajuawak Kapashesit When she isn’t head down at her bench or playing in the who is currently completing his PhD. He has produced Sheetal Vaidya, PhD, is an associate professor of Botany wild with family, Carolyn works with creative Indigenous two documentary films with communities in Vanuatu, Ajuawak Kapashesit, of Cree and Ojibwe heritage, is a at Patan Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, language workers through First Languages Australia and the and is an associate producer of the Australian film non-profit communications consultant, freelance writer, specializing in plant systematics. With over 27 years of Queensland Indigenous Languages Advisory Committee “Yamani.” He is an investigator on a project funded by and researcher. He graduated from Macalester College in teaching experience, she has done research on diverse subjects on an array of national projects, including Yamani: Voices the Australia Research Council, which explores music, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, with a degree in Linguistics such as molecular biology, floriculture, and biocultural of an Ancient Land; Warra: Building Teams, Building mobile phones, and social justice in Melanesia. focusing primarily on endangered languages, and has diversity of Indigenous communities of the Kathmandu Valley. Resources; and Gambay: Australian Languages Map. been working in this field ever since. Joanna Dobson Priscilla Wehi Kristina Kelman Peter Bridgewater Joanna Dobson lives on the North Norfolk coast, England, Priscilla Wehi is a conservation biologist at New Peter Bridgewater is a visiting fellow at the Australian where she is writing her book To Altai, which describes Kristina Kelman is a highly accomplished choral director, Zealand’s government terrestrial ecology institute, National University’s Centre for Museums and Heritage, her experiences of living for a decade with the Indigenous having directed some of Queensland’s best performing Landcare Research Manaaki Whenua, and also parents a visiting professor at Beijing Forestry University, and an People of the Altai Republic. During that time she worked choral groups. Kristina’s choirs have won several local, three children. She is a 2014‒2020 Rutherford Discovery state, national, and international competitions. She holds Fellow with interests in human‒nature relationships and adjunct professor at the Institute of Applied Ecology at as a translator in the field of biocultural conservation. a PhD in Music Education and a Master of Music in Jazz stable isotope ecology. She affiliates to Tainui, Tūhoe, and the University of Canberra, where he pursues an interest Voice and Choral Studies. Ngāpuhi through marriage. in the links between biological and cultural diversities. Javier Domingo Javier Domingo hails from Bariloche, Argentina, and is Joseph Lambert H mi Whaanga Kagole Margret Byarufu working on a revitalization program for the Tehuelche ē language of Patagonia. He holds masters’ degrees in Joseph Lambert does research and communications Hēmi is a research fellow in Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao Kagole Margret Byarufu, from the Hoima region of work for the Gaia Foundation, where he has been at the University of Waikato, Aotearoa/New