Tairona - Kogi-Guardians Heart of the World

mudra · 08-18-2009, 06:41 AM

Tairona Heritage trust

http://tairona.myzen.co.uk/

This is the Home Page of the Tairona Heritage Trust, a small British-based NGO which, since 1990, has been working on behalf of Gonavindua Tairona. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is the highest coastal mountain in the world, and the indigenous groups which live on it - the Kogi, the Arhuaco and the Assario - are the descendants of the Tairona civilization which flourished there at the time of the Spanish Invasion. Gonavindua Tairona is the political organisation founded by the the Mamas (priests) of the three tribes in 1987 in order to represent their interests in the face of increasing Western pressures. The three tribes refer to themselves as ‘The Elder Brothers’, and to Westerners as ‘The Younger Brother’s

The Tairona Heritage Trust is not simply a financial support for the indigenous people of the Sierra. It is also a way of showing them that we are capable of respecting them and their message - and, by extension, life itself. They believe that at the heart of our destructive behaviour is a failure to respect anything beyond our own immediate needs. So the Trust exists as part of the effort to change us, as well as to help them.
Money is only ever sent to Colombia in support of projects explicitly proposed by Gonavindua Tairona, the organisation that represents the Mamas. These projects are for buildings and land-purchase, and whatever is bought becomes the legal property of the indigenous community itself, not of any individual or sub-group.

Love always
mudra

08-18-2009, 06:41 AM	#15
mudra Avalon Spiritual Mother Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: belgium Posts: 4,919	Re: Tairona - Kogi-Guardians Heart of the World Tairona Heritage trust http://tairona.myzen.co.uk/ This is the Home Page of the Tairona Heritage Trust, a small British-based NGO which, since 1990, has been working on behalf of Gonavindua Tairona. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is the highest coastal mountain in the world, and the indigenous groups which live on it - the Kogi, the Arhuaco and the Assario - are the descendants of the Tairona civilization which flourished there at the time of the Spanish Invasion. Gonavindua Tairona is the political organisation founded by the the Mamas (priests) of the three tribes in 1987 in order to represent their interests in the face of increasing Western pressures. The three tribes refer to themselves as ‘The Elder Brothers’, and to Westerners as ‘The Younger Brother’s The Tairona Heritage Trust is not simply a financial support for the indigenous people of the Sierra. It is also a way of showing them that we are capable of respecting them and their message - and, by extension, life itself. They believe that at the heart of our destructive behaviour is a failure to respect anything beyond our own immediate needs. So the Trust exists as part of the effort to change us, as well as to help them. Money is only ever sent to Colombia in support of projects explicitly proposed by Gonavindua Tairona, the organisation that represents the Mamas. These projects are for buildings and land-purchase, and whatever is bought becomes the legal property of the indigenous community itself, not of any individual or sub-group. Love always mudra