Category: Traditional Knowledge

• Economy
• Environment
• FW Geo-Politics
• Political
• Traditional Knowledge

Settler colonial powers have consistently attempted to erase and replace Native peoples by attacking their food systems (Burnett, Hay, and Chambers, 2016) through strategies like banning traditional foods and ceremonies,…

• Environment
• Food Security
• Fourth World Journal
• Health
• Law & Justice
• Traditional Knowledge
• Traditional Medicine

The Fourth World Journal invites submissions for a special edition on Indigenous women in traditional medicine. This issue will explore their critical role in health, resistance, and environmental sustainability. Scholars, practitioners, and activists are encouraged to contribute studies, narratives, and policy analyses highlighting Indigenous knowledge systems and decolonial healthcare approaches.

• Economy
• Global Exchange
• Health
• Political Economy
• Traditional Knowledge

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) laud free trade as a doctrine of economic growth, prosperity, and development. Free trade agreements (FTAs), agreements between two…

• Arts and Culture
• Fourth World Journal
• People
• Traditional Knowledge

As we near the end of this series of blog posts about the latest issue of the Fourth World Journal, we are excited to present the article “Aillaquillen: The Island…

• Food Security
• Fourth World Journal
• Health
• People
• Traditional Knowledge

Introducing another of our accomplished authors, we have Robert Hansell’s “Indigenous Food Sovereignty: A Thematic & Case Study Literature Review.” We are thrilled to publish a piece that resonates so…

• Arts and Culture
• Environment
• Fourth World Journal
• People
• Traditional Knowledge

We are pleased to share another insightful piece from the new issue of the Fourth World Journal, “Pashtun Indigenous Knowledge and Resilience: Mitigating Climate Change in Northern Pakistan,” where Dr….

• Artby - Rudolph Ryser
• People
• Traditional Knowledge

Many answers to contemporary world problems, especially climate change, are already known, especially when considering indigenous knowledge systems. The key is to learn how to find this knowledge and foster…

• Arts and Culture
• Traditional Knowledge

The Day of the Dead, celebrated in Mexico on November 1st and November 2nd, has its origins in prehispanic times. Different Mesoamerican peoples worshiped death, but the tradition we celebrate…

• People
• Traditional Knowledge

The Sámi are recognized as an Indigenous people in Finland. Ethnobotany is very important to them, with one particular species of plant, boska (angelica) which is used in gastronomy and also as medicine.

• People
• Traditional Knowledge

Treating eczema in a baby through diet (wild meats, greens and vegetables, fruits, some grains and nuts) changes when breastfeeding.