Terralingua and Langscape Magazine

05/27/2026

“The Circle of All Nations” draws on Indigenous philosophies and the teachings of Anishinaabe Elder William Commanda to reflect on spirituality, democracy, and humanity’s relationship with the living world.

Indigeneity, as reflected by author Pedro Favaron and illustrated through Shipibo-Konibo artist Chonon Bensho’s embroidered works, is not merely an ethnic category but an ontological and ethical disposition. It is a calling to recognize ourselves as living threads in a greater web, united in plurality, native not only to our territories, but to this planet, solar system, and galaxy. By honoring plurality without requiring sameness, diverse forms of life and thought are woven into the same fabric. Democracy becomes a sacred bond with the living world and not just a human system.

Read the story and see the artworks: terralingua.org/indigenous-youth-storytellers-circle/contribute

05/22/2026

Are you an Indigenous young person (re)connecting with your ancestral language, culture, traditional knowledge, or land? The Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle wants to hear from you, and so does the world. Submit your story for 2027. 🌿 https://terralingua.org/indigenous-youth-storytellers-circle/contribute/

05/21/2026

It's that time of the year again where we call for an International Day of Biocultural Diversity!

As we celebrate World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development on May 21 and the International Day of Biological Diversity on May 22, we encourage you to reflect on the interdependent web of life that interlinks the diversity of nature and culture.

We cannot separate "diversities" into silos anymore as we increasingly experience a biocultural diversity extinction crisis. Learn how you can support this cause. Read the full article on our website: bit.ly/bcdday

05/15/2026

Sumarni Laman grew up between two worlds: city schooling and her mother's Dayak Ngaju wisdom from Kalimantan, Borneo. It was only when she sat with Elder Iber Djamal in the forest that she began to understand what her mother had always said: that nature carries messages, and Indigenous languages are the bridge to hearing them.

Read her full story on our website: https://terralingua.org/stories/nature-speaks-through-forgotten-language-iysc/

05/13/2026

Words shape worlds. 🌏 Reclaiming the language we use to imagine them may be one of the most radical acts of our time. As communities face deepening political and ecological crises, many are already building alternatives, on their own terms, in their own languages.

The Dictionary of Radical Alternatives gathers living concepts from many groups and communities, especially Indigenous, peasant, and feminist traditions, honoring the many ways people define what it means to live well. A pluriverse of possibilities already exists.

Read the full story on our website: https://terralingua.org/stories/a-dictionary-for-the-pluriverse/

Dictionary of Radical Alternatives: https://dictionaryofradicalalternatives.org/
Global Tapestry of Alternatives: https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/

05/12/2026

The success of the first IYSC Café echoes the deep human need to connect and be known within one’s own cultural roots. Over 30 Indigenous youths from five continents gathered on March 20th to exchange stories and find solidarity in the particular experience of being Indigenous in today’s world.

Learn what happened at the first IYSC Café and why it mattered. 📖 https://terralingua.org/2026/05/10/indigenous-youths-connect-at-the-first-iysc-cafe/

05/06/2026

Fauzi Bin Abdul Majid comes from Palu'e Island, where an active volcano rises from the Flores Sea, and his father taught him to honor both Creator and ancestors. Indonesia is home to over 1,300 ethnic groups and 700 languages, and young people are slowly turning away from all of it. For Fauzi, diversity isn't a concept to celebrate in speeches, but something worth protecting.

Read the full story on our website: https://terralingua.org/stories/honoring-our-differences/

05/05/2026

Two years ago, Mario Gerada, a social worker who is passionate about biocultural diversity and ethnobotany and who works with migrants living in his native Malta, submitted a story to Langscape Magazine.

We're pleased to be still in touch with him and grateful that brought the plight of Malta's turtle doves to our attention. His article, "The Mediterranean death trap for turtle doves and the region’s soul," published in MaltaToday, grants us a unique biocultural perspective on turtle doves.

Protecting turtle doves is urgent, as is urgent protecting the human rights charter, the institutions that uphold it and the politics and mechanics that make the charter a real political force in the world to overcome violent cycles, wars, genocides and ecocides today

04/29/2026

The phrase “touch grass” was meant to be a return to the real world. But as this Akan youth from Ghana asks: whose grass are we touching? In this piece, he reflects on how globalization and digital culture are quietly flattening Indigenous identity, and why reconnecting with Akan knowledge systems, language, and local environment is the only kind of grounding that truly holds.

Read the full story on our website: terralingua.org/stories/when-we-touch-grass-we-lose-our-roots