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Every culture has a system of beliefs that guides their interaction with nature. The literature suggests that indige-nous communities rely heavily on the pursuance of an ideal of natural justice, which leads them to have a balanced rela-tionship with nature. In this paper we seek to deepen the understanding of indigenous people’s concept of natural jus-tice and morality systems guiding their interaction with nature. An exploratory case study was conducted in which we gathered qualitative data through in-depth interviews and participant observation in a Letuama village from the Colombian Amazon. We conducted a grounded analysis of the data in search for subjective moral norms guiding envi-ronmental behavior. The six basic principles that emerge