A dimension within Indigenous Forest Wisdom
This theme focuses on the importance of preserving tribal culture, traditions, and overall cultural heritage.
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AI-synthesised pieces woven from many community voices on this theme. They may contain errors or interpretation — they're a reflection of the stories, not a record of fact.
The traditions, culture, customs, and practices of the tribal community are on the verge of extinction, so it is necessary to preserve our culture.
— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
Our culture is disappearing, which is why it is important to preserve it.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
The customs, traditions, and culture of our community are on the verge of disappearing, so we must protect them so that they remain alive for future generations.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
It is essential that we preserve our culture so that our traditional knowledge can be kept alive; otherwise, we will move towards modernity and forget everything.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
We should preserve our culture because if we do not, then in the future, we, our community, and all our cultural traditions will become extinct.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
The culture, customs, attire, and traditions of us tribals are gradually disappearing in today's time. People are busy erasing their own existence in the pursuit of modernity. Therefore, it is important to preserve our culture.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
The culture of the tribal community is disappearing, and at the same time, our rights are also ending. Therefore, it is important to preserve culture.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
The culture of the tribal community is disappearing, and along with it, our rights are also being eroded. That is why it is important to preserve our culture.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
We should protect our culture so that future generations come to know about this traditional culture and knowledge, and they do not forget their language. If we do not protect it, the indigenous community will be lost.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We should preserve our culture because if our culture does not survive, our indigenous people will also not survive. At the same time, all the traditional customs and cultural practices will also disappear.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We should also preserve our culture because if we do not preserve our culture, then all our language knowledge, indigenous knowledge will disappear.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Nowadays, our linguistic culture and traditions are gradually disappearing, therefore, it is very important to promote them or ensure their preservation.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Slowly, old traditions and culture are fading away; it is essential to save them now.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
We should protect the culture of our tribes because if we don't, in the coming time, we will become extinct and our community will cease to exist.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We should preserve our culture so that our tribe does not become extinct and our culture stays alive.
— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
To preserve our cultural customs, we will have to do a lot because our culture is slowly disappearing, and people are slowly
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
Day by day everyone is moving towards modernization, so preserving culture is becoming mandatory, otherwise all our traditional knowledge, skills, songs, and dances will disappear.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
We should protect our culture because if our culture doesn't survive, our indigenous people will also not survive, and along with that, all the traditional, cultural traditions will also be lost.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Today's generation has started forgetting our spoken language, culture, customs, and traditions. It is important to save them to keep alive the practices of our ancestors.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
We should preserve our culture so that our people, our tribes, and all our things remain ours. If we do not look after it, we will vanish tomorrow. No one will even know, not even our children. That is why our culture is preserved.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
We should protect our culture so that our tradition and culture can be saved.
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
If our culture is not preserved now, many things like songs, languages, and traditional and cultural aspects will become extinct in the next 20 years.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
If we do not preserve our language, culture, traditional songs, dances, musical instruments, and indigenous seeds in the next 20 years, all will disappear.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We know that the culture, including the dance, music, and games that existed before, is slowly disappearing. Therefore, to protect our culture, we will preserve them.
— Ulapi Sahu
We must preserve our culture so that future generations know our culture, keep it alive, and prevent it from disappearing.
— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
If the traditions, customs, songs, dances, and worship methods of tribal communities are not preserved, they will be lost. Therefore, we and everyone must save them.
— Anirudha Marai
Forgetting our music, art, and culture, we are moving towards modernity day by day, and we are starting to forget traditional knowledge. That's why the preservation of culture is absolutely essential.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
We should preserve our culture to safeguard fading knowledge.
— Kusha Mahakud
We are slowly forgetting the knowledge passed down by our elders. We need to preserve the knowledge taught by them. We should save our culture because we are indigenous people, and indigenous culture every
— Kamlesh Katara · Malmatha, Dungarpur, Rajasthan
To save our tradition and culture
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
The traditional conversations, food, culture, and tradition-based festivals of tribal people are gradually disappearing. Our elders should hand these over to the current young generation to preserve them.
— Santosh Barik · Kalahandi, Odisha
We must definitely preserve our culture, because our known festivals, traditions, marriages, our worship, goddesses, and gods are slowly disappearing. And we are all realizing that.
— Ulapi Sahu · Patnāgarh, Balangir, Odisha
We should preserve our culture because traditional knowledge and science are associated with it. If we do not preserve it, traditional knowledge and science will disappear. From the forest...
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Our culture and tradition have been passed down from our ancestors, which preserves our existence. If these become extinct, the identity of the indigenous people will be erased.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
We should protect our culture so that our traditions, culture, and customs remain in the future.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
To keep our traditional knowledge and cultural skills alive, it is essential for us to preserve our culture.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Our cultural games, dances, songs, rituals, and festivals should not be forgotten; the coming generation might forget them, which is why they need to be preserved.
— Laxmi
If we do not protect our culture, then in the coming time, all our traditional songs, traditional dances, musical instruments, and folk songs will be lost.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We should preserve our culture so that it remains alive in the future.
— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
We should protect our culture because if culture doesn't survive, then indigenous people will not survive either; they will completely vanish, they will become extinct.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
The voices in this theme were gathered by these organisations through their community reports.
