Land & ecology
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Mijikenda Kaya traditions
Sacred Kaya forests link ancestral settlements, codes of conduct, governance, and care for place.
Coastal Kenya · 5 highlights↗Diné Hózhó
Diné discussions of beauty, balance, harmony, and living well in relation to land and community.
Diné Bikéyah · North America · 5 highlights↗Māori concepts and responsibilities
Interrelated ideas of genealogy, care, hospitality, and guardianship in Māori life.
Aotearoa New Zealand · 5 highlights↗Aṉangu Tjukurpa
Aṉangu understand Tjukurpa as living law, knowledge, and responsibility connecting people, ancestors, and Country.
Uluṟu–Kata Tjuṯa · Central Australia · 5 highlights↗Noongar knowledge and six seasons
Noongar knowledge relates Country, family, plants, animals, and the six locally observed seasons.
Noongar Boodja · Southwest Western Australia · 5 highlights↗Yolŋu law, art, and Country
Yolŋu communities express ancestral law, clan identity, and connection to Country through languages, art, and collective action.
Northeast Arnhem Land · Northern Australia · 5 highlights↗Torres Strait Islander knowledge
Island communities sustain distinct languages, Ailan Kastom, and relationships with sea, land, and sky.
Zenadth Kes · Torres Strait · 5 highlights↗Balinese Tri Hita Karana and subak
Balinese subak joins farmer cooperation, water temples, irrigation, and ritual.
Bali · Indonesia · 5 highlights↗Carolinian wayfinding and canoe making
Carolinian wayfinding brings together canoe construction, observation of sea and sky, apprenticeship, and communal labour.
Caroline Islands · Micronesia · 5 highlights↗Marlaloo Songline
The publicly shared Marlaloo Songline links story, named places, language, and cultural relationships in the Kimberley.
Kimberley · Australia · 5 highlights↗Sámi árbediehtu
Árbediehtu is Sámi inherited and developing knowledge about people, land, language, and ways of living.
Northern Norway · Sweden · Finland · Kola Peninsula · 6 highlights↗Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit
Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit names Inuit knowledge, values, skills, and ways of learning that guide life in Nunavut.
Nunavut · Canada · 6 highlights↗Hawaiian pono and hoʻoponopono
Pono has a range of Hawaiian meanings involving goodness, justice, wellbeing, and fitting relation.
Hawaiʻi · 6 highlights↗Kallawaya knowledge and cosmovision
Kallawaya communities in the Bolivian Andes sustain ecological, healing, artistic, and religious knowledge.
Bautista Saavedra · Bolivia · 6 highlights↗Mapuche ngillatun
Ngillatun names a Mapuche communal form of prayer and gathering.
Chile · Argentina · 6 highlights↗Shintō traditions
Japanese shrine traditions and practices relating kami, place, festivals, and community.
Japan · 5 highlights↗Sidama Fichee-Chambalaalla
A Sidama New Year tradition that brings together renewal, shared food, counsel, and reconciliation.
Ethiopia · 5 highlights↗K’iche’ Maya Popol Vuh
The Popol Vuh is a K’iche’ Maya narrative of creation, the Hero Twins, and community origins.
Guatemala · 5 highlights↗Mi’kmaw Netukulimk
Netukulimk connects Mi’kmaw livelihood, responsibility, and care for the continuing life of land and waters.
Mi’kma’ki · Atlantic Canada · 6 highlights↗Garifuna language, music, and coastal knowledge
Garifuna heritage joins an Arawakan language, African and Indigenous Caribbean histories, song, dance, and coastal knowledge.
Belize · Guatemala · Honduras · Nicaragua · 6 highlights↗Qhapaq Ñan and Andean routes
Qhapaq Ñan is an Andean road system that connected places of trade, administration, travel, and worship.
Argentina · Bolivia · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Peru · 6 highlights↗Gunditjmara knowledge at Budj Bim
At Budj Bim, Gunditjmara knowledge connects Country, deep time, water engineering, kooyang aquaculture, and continuing cultural practice.
Western Victoria · Australia · 6 highlights↗Yawuru Mabu Liyan
Mabu liyan is central to Yawuru understandings of a good life.
Broome region · Western Australia · 6 highlights↗Otomí-Chichimeca places of memory in Tolimán
Otomí-Chichimeca communities of Tolimán connect hills, water, ancestors, pilgrimages, and collective continuity in a semi-desert homeland.
Querétaro · Mexico · 6 highlights↗