I came across two feature-length documentaries, created twenty years apart, on youtube about the Kogi people. The Kogi people have managed to preserve a culture from the pre-colonial era. (woah!) They escaped during the Spanish Inquisition and tucked themselves away from civilization in remote mountains of Santa Marta, Columbia.
Some things I found fascinating about them:
They build with nature and do not cut down trees.
They consider the earth our Mother, their civilization being 'big brother' and us, 'little brother'
They raise their spiritual leaders in caves for the first 9 years of their lives. Can you imagine what it'd be like to have only a verbal & mental understanding of the world and then come out to a visual universe that you never could imagine? I'd like to think I'd have much more reverence and wonder for the mystique of the world--especially nature.
I learned so much about humanity and myself: highly recommend.
First:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vLaeenrGpY
Second:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq0kWs1q3hI
