Bridging Cultures through Art: An interview with Xapiri profiling our extraordinary partnership project that is transmitting ancestral legacies and creating much needed economic opportunities for the Matsés! Continue reading »
Posts Categorized: Field Updates
October 2018 Field Report – Transmitting traditional ecological knowledge and supporting literacy
Matsés indigenous authors complete eight illustrated readers designed to transmit traditional ecological knowledge and support native language literacy! Continue reading »
November 2017 Field Update – Second volume of Traditional Medicine Encyclopedia, Healing Forests, launch of Advanced Apprenticeship Program
Matsés indigenous people complete Volume II of historic Traditional Medicine Encyclopedia, Healing Forests, Launch of Advanced Apprentice Program and more! Continue reading »
June 2017 Field Update – Advancing the Matsés Indigenous Mapping Initiative
Advancing the Matsés Indigenous Mapping Initiative, the Matsés complete mapping of the headwaters as they work intensively to demarcate, for the first time, their entire ancestral lands in Peru! Continue reading »
February 2017 Field Report – Advancing education with publication of an innovative reader to support literacy
Acaté Field Coordinator Dr. David Fleck reports on the publication by Acaté of a reader designed to support native language literacy for the Matsés people Continue reading »