Support the rematiation of Duanama and the ancestral land of the Kogi People of the Sierra Nevada.

Rematriation: a path to reverse the ‘extinction’ prophecy of the Mamos of the Sierra Nevada de Colombia

Please consider contributing to this special Kogi Sacred Land Rematriation effort on behalf of Mother Earth.

The Kogi seek to regenerate nature, cultivate a sacred place for teaching, learning, and repair the flow of Mother Earth’s energies.

*Dream Change is a US 501(c)(3). Contributions are tax deductible. For wire transfer, checks or other methods please see below.

What is Duanama?

Deep in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta de Colombia, the highest coastal mountain range on Earth, home to the most endemic bird species of any comparable region on the planet, there is a place the Kogi People call Duanama.

The Mamos, the spiritual authorities of the Sierra, say, “this is where we study the Seshizha, the Black Line, the living network of sacred sites that covers the entire body of Mother Earth. All the guidelines at a global level are contained here.”

Duanama holds the codes. The memory of water, forests, flora, fauna, sun, light, time, and life giving intelligence, are encoded in stone and soil, in the visible and invisible.

The Land Speaks. The Mamos Are Ready.

For millennia, the Kogi and the other tribes of the Sierra Nevada, the Kogi, Arhuaco, Wiwa, and Kankuamo, have been the elder siblings of humanity, as they’ve maintained connection with the codes of relating with the forces of nature. A four thousand year old civilization, they are custodians of the Heart of the World and know their purpose is tending to nature.

Duanama is home of ancient sacred stone formations recognized by Kogi cosmology as “the Great Knowledge Book,” and Brain of the Earth. They are scriptures governing an intact intelligence system of water, fertility, balance, and natural law.

The Mamos understand the impact of Duanama being ‘private property’ keeping them from the work that needs to be done to steward this land and sacred site. They believe its return will be felt across the entire living body of the planet.

Mandate from Duanama

In 2023 when he was asked what was his vision for the future, Mamo Alejandro replied, “It’s human extinction in 15 years if we don’t act now.”

We felt the gravity of his words and committed to support their aim for the rematration of Duanama.

The Mamos say that Duanama gives the instructions for what comes next. "I am very happy to be able to build a Nujué in Duanama, to care for and protect, to make offerings, and to educate our children."

An earth school, or Nujué which is a sacred house of the people of the Sierra Nevada will be built as a place for transmission, ceremony, and education of future generations of the four tribes of the Sierra and all who wish to learn the living knowledge that holds this world in balance.

“This is what is being built. This is what is possible," Said Mamo Alejandro

Why is this critical now?

Timing and Team

Dream Change has walked alongside this vision since 2023 when we opened this fundraiser and we graciously received beautiful donations. We soon realized there was a legal matter in place and we paused, while stewarding the funds raised until there was an opening.

That path is now clear.

The work - in all dimensions- has enabled the timing and team to emerge and we now are able to embark with certainty and move forward.

The legal process is in motion. The community is in full alignment. The elders have spoken. We’ve partnered with Love Mother Earth Foundation in Colombia for legal and community support, wide alliances have since been formed, and we are ready to invite all who would like to be part of this special process, to offer donations and / or share with your community. There are several steps toward recovering Duanama and we need your support.

The Mamo’s Vision for Duanama

The land where Duanama sits is a 900+ acre parcel. Rematriation will enable regeneration of the forest, generative agriculture, restoring of water, activating of power, connecting with Shikwalala (energy paths of Mother Earth) and restoring the ‘Shikwa’ the flow, and for building an educational and cultural school, a Nujué, to transmit wisdom, make offerings, and teach both indigenous children and the wider world how to live in right relationship with Nature. A place where the codes held by the four tribes can be brought forward into this time and shared with the outer world, namely the fifth fire.

The Ask

The first step is to raise $25,000 to enable standing to purchase the land. From here we will be able to move forward, and continue to secure the 900+ acres with a larger fundraising effort. Every dollar moves this land from legal limbo into the hands and the care of its first stewards, and rightful ‘owners,’ who are ready to activate and transmit its potential.

Why Now

There are places on Earth that carry intelligence the rest of the world has forgotten. Duanama is one of them. The Mamos say that by recovering this site, we recover all the information for healing and caring for Nature. The data of the Mother. The knowledge of how to tend the living systems that sustain us all.

This is conservation, activation, regeneration, and transmission for our planet and humanity. It’s the return of living intelligence to the people who harmonize it’s code. And time is of the essence now.

Pagamentos for Mother Earth & for Duanama

Donate Now

All contributions are tax-deductible through Dream Change, Inc., a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

For larger gifts, partnership inquiries, or to learn more about the Duanama rematriation, contact us directly at s@stephanietrager.com

"By recovering this site, we recover all the information for healing and caring for Nature, because it holds the data of the Mother of Flora and Fauna, of the Sun, of Light, of Time, of Everything." — Kogi Elders, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

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Our journey with the Kogi in 2018…

"Connect yourself to nature but remember it's not enough. You must spread the word." Said Mamo Alejandro in 2018 as we stood at an outcropping of stones abutting the turquoise waves where the mouth of a sacred river entered the sea.

He also said, “In a year and a half the entire world will experience something that will affect everyone like nothing we’ve seen before.” And then there was a pandemic.

The Kogi are descendants of the Tairona people, whose land was seized by the Spanish Conquistadors. The Tairona and Kogi fled by moving up to the higher peaks of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

For thousands of years they have maintained their ancient connection to the cosmos and earth consciousness and now in this time of great chaos we are living in, they are reaching out and asking for us to work with them, to remember, and to change the ways that are causing an environmental crisis - a spiritual crisis - resulting in imbalances to all of Mother Earth’s ecosystems.

Juan Nieves, Mamo Alejandro’s son and liaison for Kogi communities, was clear in 2018, "It's game over in 2025 unless we can return to our lands and sacred sites to make payments (tributes/offerings) to Mother Earth, and have our sacred artifacts returned."

“It's game over unless you awaken your brothers and sisters to reconnect to our Mother Earth and stop creating waste - in your minds and in the environment."

These sacred stones are ancient Kogi scriptures with importance for the indigenous people of the Sierra Nevada de Colombia, the Kogi, Arhuaco, Wiwa, and Kankuamo, and also for humanity.

For wire transfer or other methods of transfer please email Stephanie at s@stephanietrager.com