Photo courtesy of Joan Pedro-Carañana
We, the Originary Peoples and Afro-descendants of Abya Yala have been walking for years in processes of struggle and resistance in defence of our collective rights and ancestral territories. This struggle once again vindicates the maintenance of knowledges, know-hows, wisdoms and ancestral practices, together with the recognition of our own systems of communication, organisation, production, health, justice and education. This work has emerged from diverse spaces of debate and deliberation on indigenous and intercultural communication in Abya Yala, as well as through the hard work of networking between indigenous, community and intercultural organisations, communities, universities and pluriversities.
In these spaces convened by the Originary Peoples and Nationalities of the whole continent, the fundamental approach has been centred on retaining processes of reaffirmation and struggle for customs, worldviews, indigenous languages, knowledges, wisdoms and ancestral practices, as well as on preserving the territoriality of Mother Earth as a fundamental basis of the cultural roots that guide our political, economic, social and cultural positions.
