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.
Achu Kantule (Osvaldo De León) was born in 1964 in Ustupu, the Gunadule Nation (Panamá). He began to paint, as a self-taught artist, in the ‘80s. In 1996 he won the National Prize for Painting from the Cultural Institute of Panamá. In 2001, he graduated from the University of Panamá with honors (Sigma Landa), obtaining A Bachelor’s Degree in Plastic and Visual Arts…
Pedro was born in 1963 in the municipality of Buctzotz, Yucatán. He is a Maya Indigenous person, the child of monolingual Maya farmers. He is a founding member of the Assembly of Defends of Maya Land, Múuch Xíimbal. He writes in Maya, his mother tongue, for which he has won awards on a number of occasions for his work that straddles the boundaries between story and poetry…
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.
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.
Achu Kantule (Osvaldo De León) was born in 1964 in Ustupu, the Gunadule Nation (Panamá). He began to paint, as a self-taught artist, in the ‘80s. In 1996 he won the National Prize for Painting from the Cultural Institute of Panamá. In 2001, he graduated from the University of Panamá with honors (Sigma Landa), obtaining A Bachelor’s Degree in Plastic and Visual Arts…
Pedro was born in 1963 in the municipality of Buctzotz, Yucatán. He is a Maya Indigenous person, the child of monolingual Maya farmers. He is a founding member of the Assembly of Defends of Maya Land, Múuch Xíimbal. He writes in Maya, his mother tongue, for which he has won awards on a number of occasions for his work that straddles the boundaries between story and poetry…
