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Crossing The RiverAuthor: More Than Human Life (MOTH)
In this podcast series, you will learn from multiple Indigenous leaders, who live on the front lines of the global climate crisis. Here they share their life experiences, knowledge, and urgent advice. They are the ones who are leading the path to a possible future. It's time to listen to them, it's time to cross the river. Crossing the River is a podcast from More Than Human Life (MOTH), based at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law and 070 Podcasts. Language: en Genres: Earth Sciences, Science Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Alex Lucitante: Ancestral Science [ENG]
Episode 9
Thursday, 20 November, 2025
Alex Lucitante (Cofán Indigenous People, Colombia and Ecuador) knows that many Indigenous peoples have been compelled to speak the language of the law in order to be heard. Yet he insists on another language as well: the ancestral science of yagé, which has guided his people for millennia and sustains their relationship with their territory.The Cofán, known as the People of Yagé, have woven their history around this sacred vine. Alex descends from a lineage that has safeguarded this knowledge and protected it deep within the forest. His mission is to ensure that this science does not fade—to keep it at the center of territorial defense and to help future generations remember that yagé is alive, and that she, too, speaks.
