“we walk to the future in the footprints of our ancestors”
~Kari-oca Declaration of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
The challenge we put out in this issue of Langscape is how we can weave tradition and innovation together to actively transform our current global paradigm. Current global paths have led to large scale destruction of biological and cultural diversity globally, often through processes that are genocidal and ecocidal in nature. These processes are causing the breakdown of the dynamic continuity of tradition—of the ever-evolving intergenerational transmission of the values, beliefs, knowledges, languages, and practices that human communities have developed over centuries and millennia, and through which each community has defined, maintained, and creatively transformed its cultural identity and integrity.
