Land is Breath: respecting nature in Altai

Slava Cheltuev, is a Telengit community leader and shaman from the Russian Altai Mountain's high altitude Kosh Agach district. Whilst traversing Altai's sacred lands, he reflects on our 21st century world and stresses the importance of reviving vital traditional knowledge - age-old wisdom that instruct the respectful and harmonious relationship between local environment and human behaviour.

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[Nonnel81]

Those people are the real humanity.....

[kelRapunzel]

I consider us as indigenious people

Our culture is unique and must be under protection we turkics nd mongols must unite to save our culture buddhism is not most ecofriendly our culture respects nature most

our temples are rivers trees not buildings

monoteist religions consider it pagan .

Do everything to vanish No one protects it on institutional level

Al Kaides is Bombing Buda statues its considered barbaric

but murdering our beautiful culture is quite normal ,because it's not monoteist:(

[Dojocho]

I hope and pray for the Asiatic nomadic people..and thier way of life to continue...to resist the rest of the world that has sold its soul for greed and gadgets that make them feel so important......peace

[ShiZi999]

nice nice nice nice nice

[Uksel alis]

türkce türkü söylüyor-altay eski türk dil grubu

[fockewolf6]

please translate into english what is he saying in the hymn.

I will be grateful. Greetings from Turkey.

[OFFICALYASRUBAND]

I am Turk from Turkey and i understand altai turk language %80 when i listen carefuly.(it is very interesting and beautiful) because altai montains are motherland of all turkic people also turkey turks.. isolated altaic people has saving our original culture and religion (shaminism-tengrism) for thousands years...

[Celia Evans]

Its great to be reminded about the connection of the Altai people to the earth and their place and to see how similar we are in some ways about our observations, fear and efforts to do what we can for our places.

[kelRapunzel]

Are you some kind of creeper following me everywhere ,

Why you are under every Turkic video in the first place ,

You are a proislamic slav obsessed with Turks I never saw a clown like you ..Stay away from me maniac

[Ayazidas]

Honestly, you are insane. I wonder if you are really a university graduate, because you write like 15 years old person.