ABSTRACT
According to Bo-i, a female datu (leader) of the Obo-Manobo in the southern Philippines, dreams and their interpretation are crucial forms of resistance as they give continuance to her people’s ways of knowing, bridging their past, present, and future(s). Through a retelling and interpretation of Bo-i’s own recollections, and ethnographic accounts by Filipino scholars who engaged with the Obo-Manobo and other Lumad groups in Mindanao, this chapter explores dreams literacy as a form of learning for resistance for the Obo-Manobo people-and-land. This form of resistance implies bringing to the present knowledge from the ancestors to ensure the continuation of their life.
