Programs

The purpose of this project is to create leadership that is strong in their values and ancestral principles of care and protection of community land and water rights, as is required for these times. We have groups in New Mexico and in Hidalgo, Mexico. Our programming can be followed here.

Books, videos, calendar tools and workshop materials provide original knowledge about timekeeping, with a special focus on ancestral Mesoamerican calendars. This knowledge is easy to put into practice in initiatives of biocultural revitalization led by local community members.

By designing community centres and by organizing activities according to original calendars, community members can tune in to each season and pay attention to ecological indicators inspired in ancestral wisdom.

The communities we have most experience working with are Yucatec and Hñahñu-Otomi, and we are beginning to approach K’iche, Achi and Kaqchikel colleagues as well.

Indian Time is a work in progress that communicates what the time of the New Dawn entails for indigenous peoples. It features a young girl who learns from her Granpa what happened in the beginning, when all was brought forth by the forces of creation. Watch a draft version of this film, presented in the Planetario de Toluca in September 2021 to over thirty community members.