Reciprocity

What is received is returned.

YAWANAWA JOURNEY IS ROOTED IN A SIMPLE PRINCIPLE

What we receive through relationship with the Yawanawa, we find ways to return.

Through retreats, ceremonies, gatherings, medicines, art and other offerings, resources flow back to support the Yawanawa people, their communities and the continuation of their culture and traditions.

Together, we can contribute to the safeguarding of Yawanawa culture, community, ancestral knowledge and their relationship with the land.

Contributing to the well-being of families and community projects identified by the Yawanawa.

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SUPPORTING COMMUNITY

Helping sustain language, ceremonies, music, art and ancestral knowledge across generations.

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PRESERVING CULTURE

Supporting the protection of forests, rivers and the sacred territories of the Yawanawa.

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CARING FOR THE LAND

Supporting education, youth and the next generation of Yawanawa leaders.

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BUILDING FUTURES

The resources generated through Yawanawa Journey help create meaningful support for the community and the priorities that matter to them.

As this work grows, this page will share the projects, needs and initiatives we are supporting together, creating greater visibility into where resources are going and what they are helping make possible.

2026 INITIATIVES

Reciprocity in Action

Everything shared through Yawanawa Journey is part of a larger circle of reciprocity. The journeys, ceremonies, gatherings, traditional creations, art and medicines offered through this work create resources that return to the Yawanawa community, supporting the people, projects and traditions that make these exchanges possible.

Already in Motion

FOOD • VILLAGE INFRASTRUCTURE • BOAT & TRANSPORTATION

This work has already helped meet practical needs within the community, from providing food and daily necessities to supporting village infrastructure including the building of a chicken coop and contributing toward a boat and transportation needs that help people and resources move between the village and surrounding communities.

Where we’re growing

ARTISAN SUPPORT • ART • HAPÉ

These next initiatives create another path for reciprocity, helping Yawanawa creations and traditional preparations reach people beyond the village while returning resources directly to the community, the makers and the traditions that carry this knowledge forward.

  • Colorful Yawanawa beaded necklaces hanging on a string, with a blurred person and plants in the background.
  • Aerial view of Mutum Village, a lush green landscape with a river, small boats, a rustic house, and a thatched-roof structure, surrounded by trees and fog at dawn or dusk.
  • A Yawanawa woman with red face paint, wearing a yellow and green headscarf, sits in a forested area making a floral arrangement.
  • A Yawanawa woman in leopard print clothing showing a plant or leaf to four young men in a dense forest or jungle.

WHAT IS CREATED, CONTINUES.

A living exchange.

The art, medicines and traditional creations of the Yawanawa are more than objects. They emerge from knowledge, practice and ways of life carried across generations. When these creations travel beyond the village, they create another form of exchange, connecting people to Yawanawa culture while returning resources to the hands, families and communities from which they came.

What is shared moves outward. What is received finds its way home.

OFFERINGS
FROM THE
YAWANAWA

Medicines, jewelry, art, kuripes, tepis and other creations made by the hands of the Yawanawa. Each piece carries a story, a prayer and the spirit of the forest.

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