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Jose Manuel Mamatacan's visit to London
In November 2022 the Trust presented the Kogi project
Munekan Masha at the public launch of UNESCO-BRIDGES
at the University of Wales, Trinity St David in
Swansea. A Kogi, Jose Manuel Mamatacan, spoke
there. He had been trained as am emissary by the
Mamas.
Learn more about his visit to London by watching a talk
that Alan Ereira gave to the Learning Planet
Festival.
Click on the button below to watch the video.
Read more
In November 2022 the Trust presented the Kogi project
Munekan Masha at the public launch of UNESCO-BRIDGES
at the University of Wales, Trinity St David in
Swansea. A Kogi, Jose Manuel Mamatacan, spoke
there. He had been trained as am emissary by the
Mamas.
Learn more about his visit to London by watching a talk
that Alan Ereira gave to the Learning Planet
Festival.
Click on the button below to watch the video.
Read more
Reviving Water Project: Field work report, July 2022
In July 2022, the Tairona Heritage Trust team, accompanied
by two environmental scientists, Ingrid Olivares and
Rodrigo Camara Leret, visited the Kogi in the Sierra
Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia.
The purpose of their visit was to conduct field work
necessary for the preparation of the Munekan Masha:
Reviving Water in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
project.
You can read the full field work report by clicking
here.
Read more
Reviving Water Project: Field work report, July 2022
In July 2022, the Tairona Heritage Trust team, accompanied
by two environmental scientists, Ingrid Olivares and
Rodrigo Camara Leret, visited the Kogi in the Sierra
Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia.
The purpose of their visit was to conduct field work
necessary for the preparation of the Munekan Masha:
Reviving Water in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
project.
You can read the full field work report by clicking
here.
Read more
Munekan Masha: Reviving Water in the Sierra Nevada de
Santa Marta
Introducing the "Munekan Masha: Reviving Water in
the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta" project!
This ground-breaking project will bring together
non-indigenous scientists and the Kogi Mamas who will
lead the work in the restoring and regenerating degraded
and environmentally damaged land, flora and
fauna in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in
Colombia. They are working to share their
knowledge-systems at a specially-chosen location in the
north face of the Sierra Nevada de Santa
Marta where the Mamas are working to revive damaged
and desiccated ancestral land.
The project aims
to bring indigenous knowledge and
“mainstream” science together for better and
more inclusive climate solutions.
Click the button below to read more about the
project's work so far and to find out how you can
help!
Read more
Introducing the "Munekan Masha: Reviving Water in the
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta" project!
This ground-breaking project will bring together
non-indigenous scientists and the Kogi Mamas who will lead
the work in the restoring and regenerating degraded and
environmentally damaged land, flora and fauna in the
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. They are working
to share their knowledge-systems at a specially-chosen
location in the north face of the Sierra Nevada de Santa
Marta where the Mamas are working to revive damaged
and desiccated ancestral land.
The project aims
to bring indigenous knowledge and
“mainstream” science together for better and
more inclusive climate solutions.
Click the button below to read more about the
project's work so far and to find out how you can
help!
Read more
August 2021 Newsletter
We are sorry for the long delay in letting you know how
the donations you made last year have been spent but it
has taken a long while to get a full report back from OGT
due to a reorganisation following the death of Santos
Sauna and the election of their new Cabildo Arregoces
Conchacala.
This newsletter includes the latest updates on:
- the Food Campaign, an Emergency Response in 2020;
-
a series of four meetings proposed across the Kogi
Communities and their results;
-
the acquisition of computers and Internet installation;
-
the acquisition of materials and utensils for 20 Kogi
families in Maldaka affected by fire In March 2021.
Read more
August 2021 Newsletter
We are sorry for the long delay in letting you know how
the donations you made last year have been spent but it
has taken a long while to get a full report back from OGT
due to a reorganisation following the death of Santos
Sauna and the election of their new Cabildo Arregoces
Conchacala.
This newsletter includes the latest updates on:
- the Food Campaign, an Emergency Response in 2020;
-
a series of four meetings proposed across the Kogi
Communities and their results;
-
the acquisition of computers and Internet installation;
-
the acquisition of materials and utensils for 20 Kogi
families in Maldaka affected by fire In March 2021.
Read more
Mission Statement
The mission of the Trust is to magnify the
Kogis’ voice, to help them defend their culture,
to assist in the recovery of their ancestral territory
and to learn from them how to better protect the
planet which we all share.
The Kogi
are descendants of the Tairona and are the last surviving
civilization from the world of the Inca and Aztec.
They are an indigenous people who consider themselves to be the
guardians of the earth and are worried by our attempts to
destroy it.
The mountain - in Colombia - is their home, it is quite
literally a microcosmos, a mirror of the planet on which every
ecological zone is represented. The impact of the modern world
is affecting their environment and from their vantage point on
the mountain they can see how this is damaging the rest of the
planet.
The Trust needs your help to support this mission.
The Films
From The Heart of the World: The Elder Brother's
Warning
Watch the first film made by Alan Ereira and the BBC in 1990
about the ancient Kogi civilisation from the Sierra Nevada De
Santa Marta, Colombia.
Aluna:
The Movie
The follow up film was made 25 years later at the request of the
Kogi Mamas because they said we had not heard them the first
time.