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The Baka pygmies in Cameroon, Central Africa have a wealth of knowledge on traditional healing and medicinal plants from their forests. Specific animals are also sources of treatment for particular ailments such as the shells of giant snails for lumbago, or leopard’s bones as aphrodisiac, or the turtle’s egg for haemorrhoids. It is interesting to

In Biliqo, Isiolo County in Northern Kenya, sheep was slaughtered one morning to start a ceremony at the Darga or ceremonial site where the main healer called ’Abaye’’ performed a sign of blessings known as ‘’ebb.’’ He was joined by other spiritual healers, from different regions such as in Biliqo, Bulesa, Merti, Kinna and Garbatulla

Indigenous Peoples Exchange Program: “Key role of Indigenous Youth in traditional knowledge transmission” held in Indonesia last August 2019. The goal: To contribute to the leadership development and empowerment of indigenous youth partners through an inspiring and challenging exchange.

Sustaining Indigenous Knowledge Spells the Survival of Indigenous Peoples A Thematic Report on Intergenerational Transfer of Indigenous Knowledge INTRODUCTION With regard to the intergenerational transmission of indigenous knowledge, Article 13 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) stipulates that “indigenous peoples have the right to revitalize, use, develop and transmit

Among the Kankanaeys in the Cordillera of Northern Philippines, the dap-ay, the indigenous political system which is also a physical structure,  is where elders told stories and taught community values every night around the fire to the young males. Old men and male adolescents slept in the dap-ay which served as a boys’ dormitory up

Through a voluntary land tax and donations from land owners, this organization is working to create an alternative land base for Indigenous people in California’s East Bay. By Deonna Anderson On a cool morning in December, Johnella LaRose stands in a 2-acre field in east Oakland, overseeing a group of volunteers preparing a section of

Indigenous peoples’ livelihoods are highly inter-connected with nature and environment. These have nurtured them and accumulated into their traditional knowledge in which they have passed down from generation to generation.

The goal was for every Melanesian to assert their right to good health and nutrition through their own cultural food solutions, indigenous innovations, and local knowledge systems. The project was implemented by Save PNG Inc., to increase community health, food sovereignty and agro-biodiversity throughout the Pacific countries of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu,

The Centre for Culture ,Indigenous Knowledge and Experiential Learning in Gotu, is promoting transfer of culture and indigenous knowledge from the old generation to the young generation by making young people to go through experiential cultural learning activities. Culture champions are among the most active culture club members who have the desire for culture that

INTRODUCTION Indigenous peoples make up less than 6% of the global population, yet they speak more than 4,000 of the world’s almost 7,000 languages. There are dire predictions that up to 95 percent of the world’s languages may become extinct. Seriously endangered indigenous languages constitute the majority of these. The persistence of indigenous languages is