I have been living with the indigenous community for many years with no ever intention to develop or educate them or to compare and comment on their way of living; instead, to recover my cultural and connected sustainable environmental roots, which have been lost so far in the process of getting educated through the modern education system that shifted the center of knowledge from Nature to human, collective to ego, heart to intellect, intuition to reason, intangible to tangible, experience to information, real to artificial and from holistic to compartmental". We struggle to adjust because we’re still largely trapped inside the enlightenment tale of progress as human control over a passive and ‘dead’ nature that justifies colonial conquests, commodity economies, and exponential growth. Homo Faber, the thoughtless tinkerer, is clearly not going to make it. This is where studies of Indigenous culture can be so helpful, challenging the conceptual blockages that keep our minds closed to options for change. Recognizing the need to support Indigenous peoples’ rights, culture, knowledge, and leadership are critical prerequisites for protecting the world’s forests, environment, and climate.