culture

Buffalo Spirit ~ Culture On-Line

Through websites and video on-line we are witnessing the fastest growing form of communication and in keeping with this trend, Buffalo Spirit offers website visitors a opportunity to encounter cultural teachings in the oral tradition of Aboriginal people. We have interviewed those who uphold the cultural knowledge of their community and from the spiritual and natural worlds.

Cultural Appropriation

Kim Recalma-Clutesi, Kwak waka 'wakw

Recording Culture Following Protocols

"The traditional knowledge of a community passes into the public domain, our spiritual guardians must control how it is used and who receives it."

Allan Pard, Piikani

There's sacred public knowledge that could be public, and shared with the public but when it comes down to sacred knowledge, or transferred knowledge, it means that in order to understand or share that information, the only way you can acquire that is that you have to live it.