Kuntanawa Indigenous Cultural Immersion

An evening of ancestral teaching, live song and open circle with Prince Haru Kuntanawa, leader of the Kuntanawa people, and Dr. Hayra Kuntanawa, co-leader of the Kuntanawa people, who have traveled from their territory in the rainforest of Acre, in the western Amazon on the Brazil–Peru border.

Within Kuntanawa tradition, plants are not only physical medicine. They are carriers of knowledge, memory and ancestry. Haru and Hayra will share how their people understand this relationship, and how it can awaken a deeper sense of belonging — to nature, to our roots, and to the lineages we each come from.

From there the evening opens into a question the Kuntanawa are living right now: if our ancestors learned by deeply observing the forest, the animals, the cycles and the body, how do we continue that learning in a technological world? How can today's tools help protect and carry knowledge forward without stripping it from the people who hold it?

Throughout the night there will be live song.

In ancestral traditions music is far more than entertainment — song carries prayer, story, teaching and healing. We will explore together what rhythm, voice, repetition and silence do to attention, emotion and memory, and why so many traditional cultures have always brought plants, song and ceremony together.

This is a circle of knowledge, with real time for your own questions and reflections.

Please note: this is an evening of teaching, music and dialogue. No plant medicines are served. Those who wish to go deeper are invited to the hapé day ceremony on Tuesday, October 27.

Kuntanawa goods and medicines will be available, and all support goes toward the Kuntanawa people's work protecting the forest and the demarcation of their lands.