Anita Sanchez and Joannah Tindongan have a soulful dialog on Ifugao knowledge, ancestral lineage, and retaining conventional tradition alive within the trendy world.
This time on The 4 Sacred Presents, Anita and Joannah Tindongan speak about:
- Joannah’s expertise rising up between two cultures
- The Ifugao individuals of the Philippines and Joannah’s indigenous paternal lineage
- Getting younger individuals curious about conventional methods of dwelling
- Ifugao creation tales and retaining the lineage alive by means of storytelling
- Respecting ladies, elders, the land, and all beings
- The significance of connection each with neighborhood and the pure world round us
- Speaking with our ancestors in sleeping and waking life
- The present of being a pupil of life and approaching all issues with curiosity
- Remembering that point is just not linear and that we’ve got the facility to heal
“To cook dinner on a fireplace, to plant the rice, to do the rituals, to choose meals from the backyard, to fetch consuming water, All these issues are a part of the best way that we used to dwell. That’s one of many largest impacts we will have, to relearn the right way to do the straightforward dwelling on this loopy, busy world that we’re in now.” –Joannah Tindongan
About Joannah Tindongan:
Joannah was born within the Philippines and raised in Appalachian Ohio, in america. She is an Indigenous Filipina-US neighborhood organizer and tradition bearer with ardour for Indigenous advocacy, social justice, and protection of IP land and water sovereignty. A former neighborhood organizer for a few years within the US, she now lives within the Cordillera mountains of the Philippines, in neighboring tribal lands. She works together with her father and neighborhood to revitalize and educate Indigenous tradition & conventional dwelling by means of the Ifugao Heart for Residing Tradition, which they based collectively, and she or he loves touring to show and study with Indigenous siblings world wide.
“One in every of my largest goals is that folk notice that there are much less boundaries to connecting with our environment and with our ancestors than we expect.” –Joannah Tindongan
