Indigenous Cosmovision

Cosmovision

Cosmos



Indigenous peoples experience nature in a holistic modality that imbued with a sacred quality. Nature is revered as the primary source of life; it nourishes, supports and teaches humanity, the nature is the center of the universe.

All the life is regulated by a single and totalizing ´set of rules of conduct´.

Corpus

Indigenous societies have  a repertory of ecological Knowledge that is generally locally derived, and is collective and holistic.Indigenous Knowledge contains the nature of ecosystems and the ways that they can be effected, possitive or negative, over long periods of time.

These cognitive systems allow the sustinaible management of native lands and wildlife.Indigenous Knowledge keeps a detailed and encyclopedic information bas eof all living inhabitants, and the water and resource characteristics of native lands.

They view themselves as a part of the landscape mosaic spatially. They increase biological and genetic variation by maintaning habitat patchiness and heterogenety within their indigenous landscape mosaic.

The praxis

The livelihood of indigenous societies is dependent of the inmediate ecosystems that they inhabit. They are therefore forced to adopt survival mecanisms that guarantee an uninterrupted flow of goods,materials, and energy from ecosystems. The multiple source and resource gathering strategy of indigenous communities increases the carrying capacity of the land, moderating single source dependency effects, and stabilizing the dependability of ecosystem suppliance of basic needs.Indigenous communities integrate varied practices including agriculture, agro-forestry, hunting and gathering forest extraccion, fishing, the keeping of domesticated animal, and craft-making.Non-specialized production allows for maximum utilization of all available lanscapes.

The Axis

Describes the integrative relationship that links the cosmos, corpus, and the praxis of indigenous reality into a unifying matrix of cordinated elements.

How nature is seen by human groups trough a screen of beliefs and knowledge, and how their knowledge system is translated into the management natural resources.

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Indigenous people and Rituals

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." - Chief Seattle

A lot of Indigenous people around the world, who have not recibe the colonization of colon, still having their ways of seing the things of their predessesors. The indigenous people are an important part of portion of the humanity, with their heritage, their ways of life, their stewardship of this planet, and their cosmological insights are an invaluable treasure house for us.

The word Indigenous has many meanings. In every region of the world, many different cultural groups live together and interact, but not all of these groups are considered indigenous to their particular geographic area. In fact, it is only in the face of a collective or shared sense of identity that the term indigenous peoples has been internationally recognized.

They live in climates ranging from Arctic cold to Amazon heat, and often claim a deep connection to their lands and natural environments. For many indigenous peoples, the natural world is a valued source of food, health, spirituality and identity. Land is both a critical resource that sustains life and a major cause of struggle and even death.

Each indegenous culture is diferent and unique.Many peoples express similar worldviews and a common indigenous identify, bassed in diferent histories, enviroments and creative spirits.

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However the universal declaration of Human Rights,the rights of all members of indigenous populations are included in this declaration, Indigenous Peoples also have rights as distinct cultural groups or nations, so we don´t have to discriminate or se it like they are extrange people, just we have to learn an apreciate the customs that have been there for years.