Universal Tourism Values

  • Kinship
  • Reciprocity
  • Respect 
  • Love
  • Empathy
  • Reverence

Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom

Embraces:
  • Sacred ecology
  • Belief in the Earth as a living organism
  • Holistic balance
  • Kinship among all life forms
  • An abiding love for all things

The Lakota concept Mitakuye Oyasin (All My Relatives) contains the belief that we are all related, including all living and inanimate beings.
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Traditional Paths to Ecological Balance

  • Protect indigenous rights, lands and knowledge.
  • Find and study the sources of indigenous wisdom
  • Seek ways to adopt indigenous environmental ethics into common attitudes
  • Incorporate valuable concepts of indigenous wisdom into conservation and environmental programs and practices.
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