The world needs to learn from Indigenous wisdom

The artist Yacunã Tuxá addresses the struggles, resistance and political organising of Indigenous women in Brazil.

The Inga in Colombia’s Andes-Amazon region defend their ancestral lands against climate damage, the exploitation of natural resources and violence – and they are now even drawing on open-source technologies to help them achieve their goals.

What does it mean to be a Turkana today? Rael Nkoi Lomoti is the founder of Turkana’s first girls’ football team and an advocate for education, gender equality and climate justice in her community. She spoke with Katharina Wilhelm Otieno.

Indigenous ways of life have withstood difficult conditions and outside pressure for centuries. The global community must do more to protect them – and learn from them in light of looming social and ecological crises.

The Mapuche environmental activist disappeared under mysterious circumstances in November 2024; since then, the investigation has hardly progressed. The case shows how dangerous Indigenous activism is in Chile. Resistance to the forestry industry has repe

The Maasai know how to treat malaria with bark. Like many other Indigenous groups, they have immense medical knowledge. However, like the entire Maasai way of life, this knowledge is gradually being lost due to forced resettlement for the sake of profit.

Only in 2015 did the German government acknowledge that the war against Indigenous communities in the former colony of South West Africa culminated in genocide. To date, the descendants of the victims have not received adequate compensation.