Category: Indigenous

Country as a teacher: Perspectives from the San, Khoi Khoi, Hadza, Sandawe, Mbenga, Mbuti and Twa in land-based and green pedagogies

27 March 202627 March 2026 Babe Kazi No Comments

Debates about Country as teacher often draw on Indigenous scholarship from Australia and North America. African Indigenous societies also contribute to this discussion. Communities such as the San, Khoikhoi, Hadza, Sandawe, Mbenga, Mbuti and Twa show how knowledge can develop through sustained engagement with land, ecosystems and community life. These societies provide examples of learning…

Environmental work, Indigenous

Understanding Indigenous peoples of the Americas

12 March 202622 February 2026 mugumbatej No Comments

“Seventy five million Indigenous peoples survive across the Americas today. Without colonisation and the resulting death rate of up to 90 per cent from disease and violence, the Indigenous population of the Americas in 1492, conservatively estimated at 50 to 60 million and in some scholarship as high as 100 million, would have continued to…

Americas, Global, Indigenous