Taiwan Indigenous News
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
Female head of the national park system seeks to improve parks
... She said she could sense the wisdom of the mountain forests as passed down throughout the ages by Taiwan's indigenous peoples. The ...
Hsieh reveals moves to help indigenous students
... crystal display television to the students at an elementary school in Taitung County and announced more measures to help Taiwan's indigenous children secure ...
Tribe wants official recognition
... "Taiwan's indigenous tribes are all unique minorities in this country, but we are all the original residents of the island. Every ...
Nestor Horfilla
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Kalinawa Art Foundation topic: Sustainable Management of Indigenous Peoples Natural and Cultural Resources |
| background | NESTOR T. HORFILLA is an artist and cultural worker who, for more than twenty years, had engaged in cultural action work in grassroots communities especially with Indigenous Peoples in Mindanao, Southern Philippines. He was also instrumental in the organization of network and coalitions of artists and Indigenous Peoples Organizations in the region. During the last ten years, he worked in a community-based natural resource management project with the Subanen Indigenous Peoples in Lakewood, Zamboanga del Sur, directed towards the sustainable development of the Subanen ancestral domain and the conservation of cultural and natural resources of the indigenous Subanen. He has authored several monographs and publications on Indigenous peoples of Mindanao. Lately has been involved as artistic director of various Cultural Expositions and Festivals and a curator of several Indigenous Peoples Visual Arts Exhibitions. |
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Kalinawa Art Foundation |