INDIGENOUS MESSAGE ON WATER

Welcome...

…to our multilingual digital archive of Indigenous perspectives on water. We hope this site may guide multidisciplinary conversations on health, education, policy, water ethics, and creativity. We believe that water can listen to us, and that words, images, and sounds, when they come from our hearts, are powerful tools for social transformation.

agua maestra collective

The Agua Maestra Collective gathers around cross cultural dialogues on diverse ways of coming to know as well as solidarity actions, which motivate experiences of collective research-creation. Through various formats of meetings with elders of the Ikʉ (Arhuaco) people, and united by friendship and family kinship, we believe in walking towards tanʉzanamʉ, the internal and external balance taught by the Ikʉ way of thinking.

Mamʉ José Arroyo & Mamʉ Alejandro Arroyo

 In their search for harmony through ancestral practices, meditations and precise actions, the Mamʉ Ikʉ (Arhuacos) are spiritual leaders and traditional healers of their own communities and extended families, responsible for balancing people, communities and territories through traditional offerings...

Rosa Maqueda Vicente

Rosa Maqueda Vicente is a Hñähñu researcher and facilitator of community workshops. Co-founder of the cultural project Ya Mfeni. As a writer and poet she has received the Estatal Orquídea de Plata Award (2022), Internacional Péndola Dorada Award (2023 and 2022), and a runner up for the Certamen Internacional 500 años de México Tenochtitlan (2021)...

Chevaun Toulouse

Chevaun Toulouse nindizhinikaaz. Sagamok Anishnawbek nindonjibaa. Ginoozhe (Pike) nindoodem. Anishinaabe kwe ndow. My name is Chevaun Toulouse; I am a mother and a full-time biology and Indigenous environmental science student at Trent University. I recently held the position of researcher for a TV series just released called Great Lakes Untamed…

Indigenous Message on Water

Welcome to our multilingual digital archive of Indigenous perspectives on water. We hope this site may guide multidisciplinary conversations on health, education, policy, water ethics, and creativity. We believe that water can listen to us, and that words, images, and sounds, when they come from our hearts, are powerful tools for social transformation.

Indigenous Message on Water

Welcome to our multilingual digital archive of Indigenous perspectives on water. We hope this site may guide multidisciplinary conversations on health, education, policy, water ethics, and creativity. We believe that water can listen to us, and that words, images, and sounds, when they come from our hearts, are powerful tools for social transformation.

AGUA MAESTRA COLLECTIVE

The Agua Maestra Collective gathers around cross cultural dialogues on diverse ways of coming to know as well as solidarity actions, which motivate experiences of collective research-creation. Through various formats of meetings with elders of the Ikʉ (Arhuaco) people, and united by friendship and family kinship, we believe in walking towards tanʉzanamʉ, the internal and external balance taught by the Ikʉ way of thinking. 

Mamʉ José Arroyo & Mamʉ Alejandro Arroyo

 In their search for harmony through ancestral practices, meditations and precise actions, the Mamʉ Ikʉ (Arhuacos) are spiritual leaders and traditional healers of their own communities and extended families, responsible for balancing people, communities and territories through traditional offerings.

Rosa Maqueda Vicente

Rosa Maqueda Vicente is a Hñähñu researcher and facilitator of community workshops. Co-founder of the cultural project Ya Mfeni. As a writer and poet she has received the Estatal Orquídea de Plata Award (2022), Internacional Péndola Dorada Award (2023 and 2022), and a runner up for the Certamen Internacional 500 años de México Tenochtitlan (2021).

Chevaun Toulouse

Chevaun Toulouse nindizhinikaaz. Sagamok Anishnawbek nindonjibaa. Ginoozhe (Pike) nindoodem. Anishinaabe kwe ndow. My name is Chevaun Toulouse; I am a mother and a full-time biology and Indigenous environmental science student at Trent University. I recently held the position of researcher for a TV series just released called Great Lakes Untamed.

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