ABSTRACT
Our knowledge ‘is not alpha and omega but Circular and Reformative.’ If you cut the tail off a snake (keelback) its tail grows back but the scales have a slightly different pattern. Contemporary Indigenous culture/knowledge is like the newly grown tail. Colonisation and invasion ‘cut the tail off’ our culture, and although wounded, the snake (culture and knowledge) survived, lying low while it regenerated its new tail that is the same as the old one, with a slightly different pattern. Our culture/knowledge is as vigorous as before, yet wiser and knowledgeable of its assailant and its ways.
