What our ancestors knew: Teaching and learning through storytelling

It unpacks the details about the absence of the stories of indigenous cultures in our western history books and how this is likely to be because the stories of indigenous cultures were oral and often never written down.

Traditionally these stories were handed down over generations and oral story telling is a way to keep these stories alive. It is also a way to challenge the dominant discourse that privileges western culture. We can take a multimedia approach to our indigenous stories and extend our reach. Storytelling is a way to of healing alienation.