Mindahi Bastida
Mindahi explores the relationship between the State and Indigenous Peoples, intercultural education, collective intellectual property rights and associated traditional knowledge.
Dr. Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz is the former Director of the Original Nations Program at The Fountain and member of the Mother Earth Delegation. He is an executive member of the Alliance Guardians of Mother Earth and the convenor of the Grand Council of the Eagle and the Condor. He also serves as the General Coordinator of the Otomi Regional Council of the High Lerma River Basin, Mexico, that promotes the rights of nature and Mother Earth as well as the rights to self- determination of original nations. He was director of the Original Caretakers Program at the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
Mindahi has served on many advisory councils, as well as a delegate to various commissions and summits on indigenous rights and sustainability. He has written on the relation between the state and Indigenous Peoples, intercultural education, collective intellectual property rights and associated traditional knowledge, biocultural sacred sites, ancestry and other topics.
