This paper reviews the status of traditional textiles, handloom, and handicrafts in India, highlighting their decline due to the popularity of low-cost synthetic materials. It emphasizes the importance of preserving traditional crafting techniques and proposes awareness campaigns and digital streaming as solutions to sustain these crafts. Mobile applications are identified as a means to increase visibility and improve customer experiences, potentially transforming these crafts into distinctive brands.

This study was conducted to document this oral tradition which is threatened to be lost due to rapid urbanization. This paper aims to provide a documentation of the local knowledge and practices on medicinal plant utilization in the urban province of Cavite, Philippines.

This book identifies how indigenous science gender roles may be utilized to provide a more gender balanced and indigenous centered learning experience.

Shared decision-making and collaboration through-out the entire research process are central to ensuring that research fits harmoniously with Indigenous com-munities’ values and worldviews. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach that engages researchers and community members as active partners throughout the research process (Is-rael et al., 2005; Macaulay et al., 1998).

This book introduces readers with a fundamental concept of Indigenous Knowledge (IK). Unlike other similar books which are describing the anthropological perspective on the subjects, this book provides better understanding about what Indigenous Knowledge is all about. This book elaborates not only evolutionary concept of Indigenous Knowledge which are introduced by many authors and centers of Indigenous Knowledge around the globe, but also a different approach which avoid the use of binary perspectives on Indigenous Knowledge which always confronted with Modern Knowledge.

The results of this research are the development of the number of local knowledge articles in Universitas Padjadjaran which has increased since 2001-2020.West Java is the region that has the highest number of local knowledge articles. The most popular topics are culture and local wisdom.

The result of this research shows that the protection of Seudati Dance in international law falls into the category of traditional cultural expression. However, the role of Aceh Government in this case is still unclear. It seems that the Government are unable to take full responsibility for legal protection regarding traditional cultural expressions, especially Seudati Dance.

In this issue, we aspire to provide communities with opportunities to tell their own truth, and not be limited to current realities. It is our mission to incorporate methodologies and voices that honour the past, present and future and we hope readers will find evidence of that within these pages. Herein you will find accounts on various topics such as community collaboration, healing journeys, language revitalization, cultural continuity, addiction treatment models, community-based care, reconnecting with traditional diets, methods for community analysis, incarceration, and systemic racism.

This process allows for the respectful transmission of knowledge between cultures, or those with different worldviews, which creates an opportunity to develop a decolonized Indigenous research paradigm (Cochran et al. 2008; Wilson, 2008).

This paper is rooted in the understanding that all of these concepts are not static but active processes. By actively engaging in our communities and our identities, we can gather strength and heal. By engaging with Indigenous communities, urban and reserve, our Indigenous identity is strengthened, which can help in healing from trauma and colonization.