indigenous heritage
First peoples' traditions
Indigenous heritage refers to the cultural traditions, knowledge, practices, and artifacts passed down through generations of native or original peoples of a region.
This includes languages, spiritual beliefs, art forms, land relationships, and oral histories: The museum consulted with tribal elders to properly represent indigenous heritage.
The phrase often appears in discussions of cultural preservation and repatriation of artifacts.
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- ceremoniesFormal observances with ritual
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- cosmologyStudy of universal structure
creation stories · spirit animals · sacred sites · sacred fire · ecological knowledge · native tongue · ancestral lands · proverbs · oral traditions · rites of passage · archaeological sites · storytelling · cultural genocide · decolonization · carvings · intergenerational trauma · traditional medicine · songs
- heritage organizationshistorical society, preservation society, SAR, historic preservation, colonial society
- national parksYellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Everglades, Glacier National Park
- reservationsreservation, booking, hotel reservation, room reservation, table reservation
- genealogyfamily trees, family history, descendants, ancestors, ancestry tracing
- ChileSantiago, Valparaiso, Patagonia, Atacama, Easter Island
- KlondikeKlondike, stampeders, sourdoughs, sourdough, gold claims