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Community-led EducationStrengthensIndigenous Peoples’ Rootsin the Amazon A proposal to recover culture, strengthenterritorial defense, and reclaim the importanceof spirituality among Amazonian…

International Indigenous Women’s Day 2025 Guardians of Ancestral Wisdom INTRODUCTION Women are Guardians of Ancestral Wisdom By Erika Castillo and…

Does the State Have the Dignity to Keep Its Word? Ecuador’s Failure to Respect the Right to Education in the…

Four Indigenous Leaders from Ecuador’s Amazon On Solidarity For this year’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we asked four Indigenous leaders we…

Community-led education in Indigenous nations is like a seed—it needs the right ecosystem to grow. It has to be cultivated…

Have you ever bathed with alligators nearby?  Michelle Gachet, from Amazon Frontlines’ communications team and Milena Piaguaje, an Indigenous youth…

This article was published by GK (only in Spanish) There is no school in Sinangoe. The community is one of…

By Erika Castillo | Video by Santiago Oviedo When the canoes finally arrived today in Pë’këya, located in the vast…

Video by Michelle Gachet and Morelia Mendúa | Text by Erika Castillo Indigenous women are indispensable in the fight for…

Across the world, an alarm is sounding. Through record-breaking temperatures, through warming oceans, through swelling forest fires and torrential rains,…

Despite the fear he had of the Cowori (non-Waorani people) as a child, Gaba Guiquita went to the little school…

Emeregildo Criollo puts all of his wisdom as an A’i Cofán grandfather into the Sinangoe community’s community-led education process, discovering…