Discover Among the Clouds, a film by Tairona Heritage Trust and young Kogi scriptwriter Jacinto, screened at COP16 in Cali. This powerful story shares an urgent environmental message now available to watch online.

Join us on Oct 15th, 2024, at 4:30 PM BST for a special Tairona Heritage Trust event featuring Narciso, son of Mamo Manuel from Aluna, sharing the Kogi message on climate change and the sacred significance of gold. Stream online or attend in London. Stay updated on our Colombia Project and Alan Ereira’s new book launch.

It saddens us to announce the retirement of Alan Ereira, the Tairona Heritage Trust’s founder, after many years of energetic and determined work. Without doubt, it was his vision, insight, dynamism and creativity that kept the Trust animated for all these years.

Our newsletters are back with an updated design, renewed energies and much more to share with you all on the Munekan Masha project and international developments.

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.

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.

Our very own Trustee, Luci Attala, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, has contributed to Tchendukua's newsletter with an amazing short piece entitled "Relationships with Water".

For Luci, water is not an ordinary resource, but rather a shapeshifting one. Drawing from indigenous understandings of water, she briefly explores the value, materiality and culture of sharing that surrounds water.

Introducing the "Munekan Masha: Reviving Water in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta" project!

The project aims to bring indigenous knowledge and “mainstream” science together for better and more inclusive climate solutions.

Click the link below to read more about the project's work so far and to find out how you can help!

Don't miss Alan Ereira's upcoming online talk on 'OWNING THE MAP- indigenous cartography on the front line of climate change' on 16 March 2022. At the entrance to the Lost City of the Tairona in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Mara there is the “mapstone”, but it has never been clear what is being mapped. Can we learn from the Kogi what it really signifies?

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.

In this newsletter, we bring updates on the Food Campaign, a series of four meetings proposed across the Kogi Communities and their results, the acquisition of computers and Internet installation, and the acquisition of materials and utensils for 20 Kogi families in Maldaka affected by fire In March 2021.