Amerikua promotes an education inside the local indigenous communities and education for external people that wants a transition to new humanity that includes the indigenous wisdom.
A new foundation of knowledge in the modern world is necessary, for this, an education where the original narratives of ancient cosmovisions with symbolic language of indigenous cultures of Amerika, is necessary. It must be the central point of learning for people that seek a transition to be able to be part of a new humanity.
In order to reach this goal, the education must be different in these ways:
We are going to transform the old education, with a new vision of the education. The deconstruction of knowledge that has been based on rationalist logic thinking in education, similar to posgraduate studies, where people enroll to spend their time unlearning the old education, based in fields such as “sciences”, to enter into an indigenous naturalist approach.
The way is ancient wisdom based in Cosmos, Amerikua promotes an education inside the local indigenous communities and education for external people that wants a transition to new humanity that includes the indigenous wisdom.
The second focus of Amerikua is to experience another way of education, promoting thought through weaving the geometry in textile and ceramic art. In this way, the senses are activated through experiential knowledge the participants, students, must be available to play an ancient musical instrument, such as ocarina, drum, or simple instruments that imitate frog sounds, and all the sounds that resonate with the animals and birds of the surrounding environment.
The third focus of Amerikua is to promote education for people to be able to experience healing and nature medicines, plants, and healing through the relation with earth and water.
This year 2025, we are focusing the activities with the community, and spiritual leaders of Sierra Nevada – Kogui culture in Colombia. where we have built relationships with communities of indigenous people. With Amerikua we built these relationships with indigenous people, sharing their wisdom in local schools.
Several workshops with local people were held between September and November 2025. The main meetings were with indigenous communities of Sierra Nevada Colombia in towns of Kogui nation. Activities included in prototype:
- The recovery of the sacred narratives in local indigenous communities Kogui.
- Workshops about Medicinal plants and natural tools for health communities Sierra Nevada Colombia. Rio Ancho Guajira.
- One-day sessions to harvest plants and plant native trees in the nursery forest reserve Miramar
- Meetings and spiritual leaders of communities in Sierra Nevada
Activities for prototype 1
September 2025
Rioancho Guajira
In this community we work with mamo (spiritual leader of community) to recover Medicinal plants and natural products for health in communities of Sierra Nevada Colombia. Rio Ancho Guajira. We were on two occasions sharing with people of the town the natural medicines of indigenous communities in the south of Colombia, like draco latex for skin wounds, and plants for the immune system.
Equipment: Necessary tools and machinery for training and prototyping.
September 2025 Miramar forest seeds
There are many trees that are in extinction like Trementino, and other plants important for local indigenous people.
There is a map of Sierra Nevada communities and plant species important in the local forest recovery.
October 2025
Tayku community
School in the communities of Sierra Nevada.
Promotion and support of recovery of art and music practices
Amerikua was working with narratives about the beginning of the spiritual world and their role in education in high school. In this sense Amerikua supported the recovery of the sacred narratives and purchased indigenous backpacks to create knowledge kits with narrative booklets inside of them.
Learning about the narratives of Kogi cosmovision in town Tayku Sierra Nevada Calabazo.
Workshops with local people that do not belong to indigenous communities.
In these meetings we are teaching about sacred territory, spiritual payments, and care of sacred sites of indigenous communities. In the prototype of the study group, the learners are people that are in contact with sacred territory of Sierra Nevada community tairona-kogi, and are a group of ten people that attend a workshop about how to preserve the sacred sites, and learn about spiritual payments.
October 2025
Bunkuany sacred site. This worshop was made with local people that have tour guides Ancestrails Bunkuany tayrona. The workshop was about preservation of patrimonial material sites for 20 persons, and this opportunity was important to bring a message to education for territories with sacred places.
Meetings and spiritual leaders of communities in Sierra Nevada.
November 2025
Riohacha Guajira mamo Zechian.
This workshop with the spiritual leader Mamo Zechian, and their team, was for sharing materials to spiritual payments for the works that team Amerikua has made in the local communities, this is an important step during the activities in the territory.
Prototype 2
For external education for students across the world: with a learning method based in symbolic language like a door for a sacred ancient world. The change that we want is going forward with an educational model based on learning through symbols, not written language (language in the old sense, verbal,) – but looking towards a perceptual thinking, through the connection with symbols in sacred territories.
The communities know it, ancient knowledge of spiritual leaders guide people through working with symbols about four elements (light, wind, sound, water) which have high levels of intuition across symbols, and are the protectors of their own sacred territories.
The education is with people of local indigenous communities and virtual education for people that do not live in Colombia. The program has developed online courses for students, right now in the different cities of Colombia and has one student from France. The students’ online courses prototype: Amerikua, planning a course with 5 people, that is interested in learning about native cultures in Amerika. master class for people that want what Amerikua is offering. develop the plan for enrollment and scholarship campaign.
The first online prototype was in September, with five (5) people that are the students, a platform for online sesion, annual payment, a program assistant for enrollment and network outreach, hours for preparation of educational programs.
The sessions begin with a presentation about the topic for the class, western style, and indigenous style, and include tasks the people have to do after the class. In this sense, the frequency is each week, with a class of two hours long sessions, for two months. Practices: FOR workshops with local people to teach about sacred territory the practices include storytelling circles, and walking in a route for sacred territory. And in the last session, sharing about symbols, sacred spiritual knowledge, and commitment to be guardian of territory.
10 people for a workshop in sacred territory. 1 person for assistance in the educational program, 1 person in the territory supporting in feeding, and receiving people, and 1 person for taking pictures, and writing about the experience. transportation payment.
This year 2025, focusing the activities with the community, and spiritual leaders of Sierra Nevada – Kogui culture in Colombia. where to build relationships with communities of indigenous people. We had relationships with indigenous people, sharing this wisdom in local schools.
Several workshops with local people were held between September and November 2025. The main meetings were with indigenous communities of Sierra Nevada Colombia in towns of Kogui nation. Activities included in prototype:
- The recovery of the sacred narratives in local indigenous communities Kogui.
- Workshops about Medicinal plants and natural tools for health communities Sierra Nevada Colombia. Rio Ancho Guajira.
- One-day sessions to harvest plants and plant native trees in the nursery forest reserve Miramar
- Meetings and spiritual leaders of communities in Sierra Nevada
“I liked the opportunity of working together with the ecoversities alliance and the mentoring of Sierra Ying Allen, who was always with the project. I’m thankful for the experience with indigenous communities in the Sierra Nevada, which helped preserve their memory and wisdom. Special thanks to the network of Ecoversities!”
This post is based on Intiqhana’s report for 2025 Germinators Projects.