Ayangat
Chonos people
Mongolia

“Indigenous people are rooted in their ecosystem… If indigenous heritage is destroyed… the ecosystem will not be able to sustain itself.”

Grand-Mother Ayangat is the spiritual leader of the shamans of the Mongolian Tenger Unen association (Union of Ancestral Traditions). The Tenger Unen association is a non-profit established to spread the ancestral knowledge, heritage, and wisdom of Mongolia by working towards the unification of traditional peoples.