Terralingua and Langscape Magazine

Terralingua and Langscape Magazine Terralingua is an international NGO whose mission is to support the integrated protection, maintenanc

The pluriverse holds that many worlds exist side by side, each with its own ways of knowing and relating to nature.In “A...
09/02/2026

The pluriverse holds that many worlds exist side by side, each with its own ways of knowing and relating to nature.

In “A World of Many Worlds,” Matilde Cervantes Navarrete traces how that vision took shape at a five-day Planetary Health Summit in La Paz, Mexico. The C***ection Song” was a gift that came to song creator Nitaawegiizhigok (Rebecca Hass) from that same land.

Read “A World of Many Worlds”: https://terralingua.org/stories/a-world-of-many-worlds/

Read “The C***ection Song”: https://terralingua.org/stories/the-connection-song/

For our 30th anniversary, we're excited to share a series of curated Langscape collections. Each collection showcases a ...
08/29/2026

For our 30th anniversary, we're excited to share a series of curated Langscape collections. Each collection showcases a theme about biocultural diversity relevant to all humans, whether you're a student, an activist, a community leader, a scholar, or simply someone who cares about the inextricable link between nature, culture, and language. We'll release a new collection every 2 weeks.

This week's collection is Biocultural Diversity for Daily Living: Art, Food, and Abundance, three issues on art and science, food traditions, and abundance. These issues reveal the power of visual and verbal art to convey biocultural diversity beyond intellect, into intuition and emotion. It invites readers to the table of food traditions and challenges conventional ideas of wealth and poverty.

To celebrate 30 years, all collections are 30% off. This collection is available in print and PDF.

https://terralingua.org/tlshop/langscape-magazine/print-biocultural-diversity-for-daily-living

Growing up Mi'kmaq and adopted in C***e River, Newfoundland, Madison Wiseman spent years navigating colorism and exclusi...
08/28/2026

Growing up Mi'kmaq and adopted in C***e River, Newfoundland, Madison Wiseman spent years navigating colorism and exclusion before finding her way home through Fancy Shawl dancing.

In "The Fancy Shawl Dancer," the third story in our Mi'kmaq series, she carries this heavy history forward as a tool for education. Read the full story on our website: https://terralingua.org/stories/the-fancy-shawl-dancer-iysc/

In the Isbukun Bunun language of Taiwan, Masling refers to the euphonious harmonies one experiences by listening to the ...
08/26/2026

In the Isbukun Bunun language of Taiwan, Masling refers to the euphonious harmonies one experiences by listening to the sounds of nature or to human choral singing. It is also a framework for surviving colonial oppression with calmness and creativity.

In "Masling," Sutej Hugu traces the Indigenous Taiwan movement's struggle for nature sovereignty. In "Usaviah," poet-activist Bukun Ismahasan Islituan gives that struggle its voice.

Read the story: https://terralingua.org/stories/masling/
Read the poem: https://terralingua.org/stories/usaviah/

For the Mi'kmaq people of the Miawpukek First Nation, plamu (Atlantic salmon) is kin. Its decline is the unraveling of M...
08/19/2026

For the Mi'kmaq people of the Miawpukek First Nation, plamu (Atlantic salmon) is kin. Its decline is the unraveling of Mi'kmaq cultural heritage and identity.

In "Minua'tuek / Bringing Back," the second story in our Mi'kmaq series, Ross shares his decades-long effort to bring the river back to life.

This is the second of three (2/3) Mi'kmaq stories this year. Read the full story on our website: https://terralingua.org/stories/minuatuek-bringing-back/

For our 30th anniversary, we're excited to share a series of curated Langscape collections. Each collection showcases a ...
08/15/2026

For our 30th anniversary, we're excited to share a series of curated Langscape collections. Each collection showcases a theme about biocultural diversity relevant to all humans, whether you're a student, an activist, a community leader, a scholar, or simply someone who cares about the inextricable link between nature, culture, and language. We'll release a new collection every 2 weeks.

This week's collection is Biocultural Diversity for Activists and Community Leaders: three issues exploring how activists and community leaders fight for and reclaim biocultural diversity to strengthen communities, nurture resilience, and support action. These issues confront the twin loss of diversity in nature and culture. Stories, reflections, art, and lived experience show what language, traditional knowledge, cultural rights, and community responsibility can do in response.

To celebrate 30 years, all collections are 30% off. This collection is available in print and PDF.

https://terralingua.org/tlshop/langscape-magazine/pdf-biocultural-diversity-for-activists-and-community-leaders

Most of us are taught to see nature and culture as separate domains of knowledge, but long before anyone gave it a name,...
08/12/2026

Most of us are taught to see nature and culture as separate domains of knowledge, but long before anyone gave it a name, biocultural diversity was already at work. Communities living closest to the land have always known that nature and culture grow together, each one shaping the other.

In 1996, Terralingua gave that insight a name: biocultural diversity.

Thirty years later, the pattern and the work of protecting it continue. Follow along to learn more.

In 1994, the UN General Assembly established the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples to recognize Indige...
08/09/2026

In 1994, the UN General Assembly established the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples to recognize Indigenous Peoples' knowledge and contributions and raise awareness of the challenges they continue to face, from land dispossession to threats against their languages and rights.

On our new blog, we feature four young storytellers from our Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle, who write about recovering pride in identity, reviving language, restoring traditions through Indigenous art, and supporting a nomadic pastoralist community.

Read the full blog: https://terralingua.org/2026/08/04/international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples-four-young-indigenous-storytellers-on-cultural-healing-and-reconnection

In Mi'kmaq oral tradition, the loon and the partridge competed to become the people's official canoe builder. The partri...
08/05/2026

In Mi'kmaq oral tradition, the loon and the partridge competed to become the people's official canoe builder. The partridge's first canoe sank, but it built again until it crafted the finest canoe, winning the competition and knowledge of canoe-making.

In "Wejgwigwitna'q / Come by Canoe," Mi'kmaq people of the Miawpukek Nation in Newfoundland share a story of erasure, resilience, and a historic 1999 voyage that reclaimed five centuries of ancestral presence on the land, uniting a community around the creation of a different, self-determined Indigenous world.

This is the first of three (1/3) Mi'kmaq stories this year. Thank you to Kanna Siripurapu, Terralingua’s Biocultural Diversity Mentor, for making this happen.

Read the full story: terralingua.org/stories/wejgwigwitnaq-come-by-canoe

For our 30th anniversary, we're excited to share a series of curated Langscape collections. Each collection showcases a ...
07/31/2026

For our 30th anniversary, we're excited to share a series of curated Langscape collections. Each collection showcases a theme about biocultural diversity relevant to all humans, whether you're a student, an activist, a community leader, a scholar, or simply someone who cares about the inextricable link between nature, culture, and language. We'll release a new collection every 2 weeks.

This week's collection is Foundations in Biocultural Diversity: four PDF issues on oral traditions, sacred natural sites, diverse cultural worldviews, and living traditions. Together, they explore the stories, knowledge systems, values, and sacred relationships that connect people and place, revealing how communities have developed unique ways of understanding, caring for, and thriving within their environments for thousands of years.

To celebrate 30 years, all collections are 30% off. This collection is available in print (30% off): https://terralingua.org/tlshop/langscape-magazine/print-foundations-in-biocultural-diversity/

PDF (free to download): https://terralingua.org/tlshop/langscape-magazine/pdf-foundations-in-biocultural-diversity/

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