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Our Culture is preserved in real-time: by re-telling our stories, remembering who we are, where we come from, what foods we ate, what our language sound like, through our designs, songs, dances, altars, prayers, and relationships with each other and the natural world. We address the urgency to sustain our cultural preservation efforts through performance arts and community dialogues.
Explore how we have pursued this mission by viewing our past work below:
Our Past Work
Women of Fire
Women of fire are the voices of the heirs to our culture. They are the women who come together to reconnect with their natural way of being and to feel free and empowered. The journey of healing and learning must begin without the imposition of dominant society. Colonization not only distorted our worldview but also made it invisible. The collective must develop a sociopolitical analysis necessary to dismantle the effects of colonization in order to incorporate anti-racist, anti-oppressive, anti-patriarchal, and Indigenous principles and practices at the core of a program that embraces and empowers Indigenous women. We will contribute such deconstructive analyses through sharing Indigenous history, culture, and worldview. Empowerment can be achieved through discussions, circles, and workshops for women, aiming to facilitate critical learning for awareness and self-awareness. Our pillars are complementarity, duality, and reciprocity. We are interdependent and work together, lifting each other up.
Agricultural Support Projects
Techantit Cultural Center provides funds for planting in efforts to combat hunger in our communities, we sow our own healthy and organic food.
Community Radio in Nahuizalco
The young people at the community radio not only learn about journalism but also about their rights in empowerment workshops.
Care and Defense of the Environment: Sensunapan River
The relationship between the land and human beings is essential for the survival of humanity. Techantit defends natural resources, customs, and ancestral land tenure systems.
Housing Reconstruction Construction Project
Due to tropical storms last year, many of our grandparents were left without homes. Techantit has made a difference in their lives by providing them with a roof.
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