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By Jill Cariño TFIP Executive Director Indigenous knowledge is gaining recognition internationally as a valuable knowledge system that we all have much to learn from. Sadly, this wisdom is increasingly being lost and many traditional values are no longer being practiced and transmitted. There is clearly a problem in the effective transmission of this knowledge to the younger generation due …

In a ritual called “betad”, the elders of Tuding led by Apo Kagawad Danilo Palangdan called on the Supreme Creator, the ancestral spirits and the nature spirits to give their blessings to their efforts to keep alive the wisdom of the ancestors. After butchering a chicken, the bile was read and the good news was delivered that yes, the spirits …